Enhanced Games: Bioengineered Sports, Ethical Superhumans, and Making Your First Billion w/ Christian Angermayer

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Christian Angermeyer joins Plausibly Deniable to discuss the Enhanced Games, performance-enhancing drugs, psychedelic medicine, longevity, telehealth, ambition, and building companies around controversial ideas before they become mainstream. Christian argues that the debate around performance enhancement is stuck in moral panic, bad incentives, and missing data. He explains why the Enhanced Games are designed not just as a sports spectacle, but as a research and media platform: athletes competing with medically supervised enhancement, data being collected at scale, and a broader business built around health, recovery, and human performance. We also get into the ethics of PEDs, whether banning enhancement actually harms athletes, why recovery may be the real performance unlock, how psychedelics went from fringe to medical legitimacy, what founders misunderstand about ambition, and Christian’s path from European finance to building and selling a major African banking group. Absolutely none of this is medical, financial, or spiritual advice https://www.enhanced.com/games Sponsored by: Polymarket: https://polymarket.com Zcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.com Network Press: https://network.press _______________________________ Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.org Lukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ Saila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore Christian: https://x.com/C_Angermayer 00:00 — The moral case for performance enhancement 02:52 — Intro: Christian Angermeyer 03:26 — What are the Enhanced Games? 06:01 — PEDs, medical supervision, and building the first real data set 09:09 — Biohacking, looksmaxing, and body autonomy 14:40 — The Enhanced Games pitch: approved drugs, doctors, and athlete choice 17:14 — Why recovery may matter more than strength 21:09 — Psychedelics, stigma, and using data to change public opinion 22:42 — Which world records could the Enhanced Games break? 24:49 — Are elite athletes already using PEDs? 30:22 — Clean Olympics vs enhanced competition 32:17 — Enhanced Games as a viral sports business 38:12 — Future events: older athletes, celebrities, robots, and combat sports 41:00 — Telehealth, supplements, peptides, and the Red Bull model 47:45 — The data business behind human enhancement 48:47 — Christian’s personal health philosophy and stack 01:00:04 — Can retail investors get exposure to the Enhanced Games? 01:03:00 — Europe, America, ambition, and risk-taking 01:10:00 — Christian’s early career in finance 01:30:35 — Building and selling an African banking group 01:43:00 — Consent, alcohol, drugs, and personal choice 01:50:00 — Christian’s five-point self-improvement framework 02:00:00 — Coming out, identity, and personal narrative 02:15:04 — Psychedelics, therapy, religion, and founders 02:30:32 — What psychedelics actually reveal 02:33:11 — Closing thoughts

The Conservative case for the Machine God - w/ Lomez

Lomez joins Plausibly Deniable for a long conversation on the old internet, the rise of online politics, academia, Gamergate, Twitter, AI, prediction markets, publishing, and the strange incentives of modern work. We talk about Lomez’s path from an early remote job at Google to academia, how 2014-era campus politics pushed him online, the evolution of the dissident right, the social justice warrior era, the shifting meaning of “woke is over,” and how internet subcultures moved from fringe jokes to real political force. We also get into Passage Press, Lomez’s publishing company, including its role in preserving online writing, publishing controversial or neglected work, and building something closer to the “real economy” than most internet projects. Check out Passage Press and use promo code PD10. Later, the conversation turns to AI, Claude vs ChatGPT, the tech right, Bannon-style anti-tech populism, X vs YouTube, bot accusations, gender war discourse, office jobs, girlboss marketing, and whether the “normie job” fantasy is actually just another internet mirage. REMEMBER to purchase all books from sponsor Passage Press: https://passage.press Promo code PD10 gets you 10% off Sponsored by: Polymarket: https://polymarket.com Zcash: https://z.cash CitizenX: https://citizenx.com Network Press: https://network.press _______________________________ Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.org Lukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ Saila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore Lomez: https://x.com/L0m3z 0:02:17 — Fake jobs, make-work, and being too close to the real economy0:03:48 — Introducing Lomez0:04:30 — Lomez’s early life and getting a remote job at Google0:06:00 — Human search ranking, porn SEO, and “artisanal Google”0:10:19 — Leaving tech, traveling, and deciding to become an English professor0:11:55 — UC Irvine, academia, and the politics of 20140:13:02 — Charlie Hebdo, free speech, and campus liberalism0:15:36 — Why online transgression felt politically meaningful0:17:21 — Gamergate, gamers, and the online right0:21:02 — Is woke actually over?0:24:42 — Early Lomez internet lore: forums, Twitter, sports, and betting0:30:43 — The old alt-right, Breitbart, Spencer, and Charlottesville0:34:35 — Passage Press, Scott Greer, and White Pill0:35:00 — Social justice warriors, Tumblr, and naming the enemy0:40:00 — Trump, Kavanaugh, liberal coalition discipline, and political hysteria0:43:19 — Male feminists, the cuttlefish strategy, and dating discourse0:48:56 — The gender war escalates0:56:15 — Wirejacking, welfare, work, and the broken social contract1:05:32 — Passage Press books, QR codes, and preserving internet archives1:10:11 — Digital censorship, stealth edits, and why print still matters1:15:05 — Lomez’s doxxing and public-interest journalism1:25:38 — Polymarket, betting markets, and “selling dollars for 50 cents”1:30:14 — Scale, inefficiency, local culture, and AI1:34:00 — Hard takeoff AI and whether acceleration is inevitable1:45:18 — Nick Land, nation-states, and machine intelligence1:55:01 — Who fears AI more: the left or the right?2:08:21 — Sam Altman, OpenAI, Claude, and AI politics2:13:15 — The tech right, the administration, and institutional conservatism2:16:20 — Policy battles, post-humanism, Bannon, and anti-tech populism2:25:00 — San Francisco, crime, tech elites, and urban decline2:35:00 — Online discourse, media narratives, and AI acceleration2:50:00 — Political aesthetics, millennial posting, and internet memory3:06:14 — Bots, real people, hate-farming, and X engagement3:10:15 — YouTube vs X: analytics, algorithms, and distribution3:15:00 — The return of the gender war meta3:25:00 — The normie office fantasy, PF Chang’s, and work wives3:28:52 — Mega-corporation incentives and fake corporate jobs3:34:27 — Escape hatches, mortgages, and the terror of being stuck3:35:47 — Closing thoughts and subscribe

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Enhanced Games: Bioengineered Sports, Ethical Superhumans, and Making Your First Billion w/ Christian Angermayer

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