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Welcome back to tech stuff. Today we're diving into one of the most controversial intersections of technology, biology and capitalism that the world has ever seen. The enhanced games.

Imagine the Olympic strictest rules being tossed aside and athletes being encouraged to use performance-enhancing drugs

under medical supervision to push them to the absolute limits of their performance and of the human

body. Our guest today is Chris Guy Amali. He's the host of the superhuman podcast, all about the

enhanced games, which I'm proud to say is on the kaleidoscope network. Chris, welcome. Congrats. It's a great pod. Oh, thank you. It's really, it's funny and clever and revealing about this. It's a games, but it's also a cultural phenomenon. It's also a science experiment. It's kind of the implications of it go far beyond the kind of spectacle of the headline I think.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, when I, when I started Breaking Bread with Enhanced well over a year

ago, it was like February 2025 at this point that I first met with the founder, Aaron D'Souza.

I was sort of just pitching myself as like, hey, I write a lot about human augmentation and like weird body stuff

and what you're trying to do sounds so fascinating. It was kind of like magazine writer catnip

in a lot of ways. So I thought there were going to be a million people chasing it. And that

ended up being the case. But I ended up pitching myself as the guy to write the big magazine story

for it when I met up with him.

And yeah, after being brought on, it's just enhanced was like following the ball where it was

going in such a dramatic fashion. And now I'm kind of shocked that we're in a world where

peptides and self-injection and all this other

stuff is kind of normalized because that very much wasn't the case over a year ago.

I know it's amazing how fast the world changed, right? Just backing up a couple of steps,

so what actually is the enhanced games? Yeah, so it was originally conceived as the steroid

Olympics. Basically, the idea is that this May 24th, I believe, they're going to take a bunch

of former Olympians, people who are mostly just on the wrong side of 30, a little bit

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