On a whirlwind trip to the Bay Area, Mangesh reconnects with a childhood friend who’s experimenting with new ways to optimize his health. Then, he heads to the heart of San Francisco to meet the investors, startup founders, tinkerers, and biopunks who are taking longevity science into their own hands. Plus: Skyline Drive’s first-ever musical number, about the bizarre Honduran charter city of Próspera.
Read more about Próspera from Wired and Bloomberg
Visit the Frontier Tower website
Check out Elliot Roth’s work
Learn more about Illumicell
Learn more about Muse Bio
Listen to more of David Nagler’s music
Check out Allie Oops on Tiktok

Special thanks to Azadi Records and Bliss Samsa for their beautiful tracks, and Botany for the score. 

Episode collage art by Vahini Shori.

On a whirlwind trip to the Bay Area, Mangesh reconnects with a childhood friend who&rsquo;s experimenting with new ways to optimize his health. Then, he heads to the heart of San Francisco to meet the investors, startup founders, tinkerers, and biopunks who are taking longevity science into their own hands. Plus: Skyline Drive&rsquo;s first-ever musical number, about the bizarre Honduran charter city of Pr&oacute;spera.
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<li aria-level="1">Read more about Pr&oacute;spera from <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/a-lawsuit-from-backers-of-a-startup-city-could-bankrupt-honduras/">Wired</a> and <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/private-equity/libertarian-city-dream-in-honduras-becomes-11-billion-nightmare">Bloomberg</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Visit the <a href="https://frontiertower.io/">Frontier Tower website</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Check out <a href="https://elliotroth.com/">Elliot Roth&rsquo;s work</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Learn more about <a href="https://www.illumicell.ai/">Illumicell</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Learn more about <a href="https://www.mycells.bio/">Muse Bio</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Listen to more of <a href="https://www.davidnagler.com/records">David Nagler&rsquo;s music</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Check out <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@onlyallieoops">Allie Oops on Tiktok</a></li>
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Special thanks to <a href="https://azadirecords.com/">Azadi Records</a> and <a href="https://linktr.ee/blisssamsa">Bliss Samsa</a> for their beautiful tracks, and <a href="https://botany.bandcamp.com/music">Botany</a> for the score.&nbsp;
Episode collage art by <a href="https://www.vahinishori.com/">Vahini Shori</a>.

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. 

Mangesh Hattikudur (Part-Time Genius, Mental_Floss) dives into the booming business of living forever&mdash;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&hellip;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 &ldquo;Series Essential&rdquo; &mdash; an Apple Podcasts honor for top-tier narrative podcasts &mdash; and highlighted on several Best of Year lists including NYMag, Guardian, and others.&nbsp;

Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever

Skyline Drive has been selected as an Apple Podcasts Series Essential! Listen ad-free for a limited time.

When Mangesh Hattikudur (Part-Time Genius, Humans Growing Stuff) set out to do a big, sweeping show on astrology, he didn’t realize the first interview would change the course of his life. But as he tries to put his world back together, he realizes the incredible ways astrology presents itself in modern society: from NASA employees who keep their belief in astrology in the closet, to world leaders who’ve used astrologers to guide foreign policy, to moneyball statisticians who use astrology more than statistics to build baseball teams, to a little shop in India where your fortune was written for you centuries ago, and is waiting for you to come claim it. Over the course of 8 episodes, Mangesh tries to decipher why we keep looking to the stars for answers, and what happens when you don’t believe in astrology, but astrology keeps happening to you.

Skyline Drive has been selected as an Apple Podcasts Series Essential! Listen ad-free for a limited time.
When Mangesh Hattikudur (Part-Time Genius, Humans Growing Stuff) set out to do a big, sweeping show on astrology, he didn&rsquo;t realize the first interview would change the course of his life. But as he tries to put his world back together, he realizes the incredible ways astrology presents itself in modern society: from NASA employees who keep their belief in astrology in the closet, to world leaders who&rsquo;ve used astrologers to guide foreign policy, to moneyball statisticians who use astrology more than statistics to build baseball teams, to a little shop in India where your fortune was written for you centuries ago, and is waiting for you to come claim it. Over the course of 8 episodes, Mangesh tries to decipher why we keep looking to the stars for answers, and what happens when you don&rsquo;t believe in astrology, but astrology keeps happening to you.

Skyline Drive

Heal Thyself

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