The Ledger, every show

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks, across all 44 shows. Pick shows below, then mix any filter with any other.

shows every show 44 of 44
every show
clear all ✕
WTF Assertion Supported
Polymarket Is Launching a Prediction Market on Bryan Johnson's Nighttime Erections
“So actually next week there's going to be, do you know Polymarket? Yeah. They're launching a market on my nighttime erections.”
Bryan Johnson Feb 2, 2025 ▶ 30:34 Ep #21 | WTF is Longevity? | Nikhil ft. Nithin Kamath, Bryan Johnson, Prashanth, Jitendra & Seema · Nikhil Kamath
BIGDEAL Assertion Supported
Johnson: Project Blueprint costs $1,500 monthly, not $2 million annually
“The headline with Blueprint is that it's two million dollars a year. It's not. It's, you know, like, 1500 dollars a month, which includes your groceries.”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 25:32 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
Johnson: Five core health habits yield an average life expectancy of 92
“By doing these five things, you could achieve a life expectancy of 92. So one don't smoke. Two is exercise six hours a week. And that's a combination of strength and flexibility and cardiovascular. Three is eat a blueprint like diet or like Mediterranean diet.…”
Bryan Johnson Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 59:01 Bryan Johnson: Five Habits for Longer Living
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported
Johnson: I age 277 days per year, giving me three months free
“I'm currently aging at .76. So I, for every 365 days a year, I age 277. So I basically get like October, November, December for free.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 59:19 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
WTF Assertion Contradicted
Bryan Johnson: Breathing Mumbai air equals smoking over 10 cigarettes daily
“In this air quality here in Mumbai, it's equal to smoking over 10 cigarettes a day. If you're out in the, every day, like the entire city is smoking, you know, 10 plus cigarettes a day, breathing this air, right?”
Bryan Johnson Feb 2, 2025 ▶ 1:28:24 Ep #21 | WTF is Longevity? | Nikhil ft. Nithin Kamath, Bryan Johnson, Prashanth, Jitendra & Seema · Nikhil Kamath
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Contradicted
Johnson: Male peak weight-to-rep ratio and VO2 max occur at age 18
“You max out your weight to rep ratio at age 18. So even though you can lift more in your twenties and maybe even your thirties, your ratio peaks at 18. The same is true with your VO two max, your cardiovascular fitness.”
Bryan Johnson Dec 24, 2024 ▶ 1:24:23 Best of 2024: The Blueprint for a Transformative New Year
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Contradicted
Johnson: Weight-to-Rep Ratio and VO2 Max Peak at Age 18
“It's because you max out your weight to rep ratio at age 18. So even though you can lift more in your twenties and maybe even your thirties, your ratio peaks at 18 The same is true with your VO two max, your cardiovascular fitness.”
Bryan Johnson Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 30:24 Bryan Johnson: Five Habits for Longer Living
TBPN Assertion Supported
Bryan Johnson notes many popular peptides have zero human clinical data
“Some peptides have done the clinical work, like there's hepatitis, but then there's a whole bunch of the class of peptides that we have no human data on.”
Bryan Johnson Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 20:07 $1M a Year to Live Forever? Bryan Johnson Explains
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Bryan Johnson: Brain atrophy from aging reduces single-leg balancing ability
“As you age, part of your brain that keeps you well-balanced atrophies, and you can't maintain the balance very well, so kids are very good at this. As you age, you get worse, ok?”
Bryan Johnson Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 2:04 Bryan Johnson’s Best Health Hack: Lower Your RHR Before Sleep = Sleep Better and Live Longer
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Bryan Johnson's single-leg balance test benchmarks for determining biological age
“So, if you are, ah, between 15 and 30 seconds, that's roughly age 20 to 40. Seven to 15 seconds, you're between 40 and 60, and zero to seven, you're 60 plus. As an age category, ok?”
Bryan Johnson Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 2:15 Bryan Johnson’s Best Health Hack: Lower Your RHR Before Sleep = Sleep Better and Live Longer
WTF Assertion Supported
Johnson: Sperm Counts, Fertility, Birth Rates, and Sexual Activity Are All Falling
“You have on one side, sperm counts going down, fertility is going down, birth rates going down, sexual activity is going down like all these indicators of like, of humans having sex and You know, like having babies, they're all going down.”
Bryan Johnson Feb 2, 2025 ▶ 30:58 Ep #21 | WTF is Longevity? | Nikhil ft. Nithin Kamath, Bryan Johnson, Prashanth, Jitendra & Seema · Nikhil Kamath
WTF Assertion Supported
Johnson: High BPA levels correlate with substantially fewer eggs in women
“So a recent study showed that women with high levels of BPA produced substantially fewer eggs and ovulation. That contaminants reduces the body's production of eggs.”
Bryan Johnson Feb 2, 2025 ▶ 3:19:46 Ep #21 | WTF is Longevity? | Nikhil ft. Nithin Kamath, Bryan Johnson, Prashanth, Jitendra & Seema · Nikhil Kamath
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Partly supported
Johnson: Insufficient Sleep Eliminates Male Nighttime Erections as Key Health Biomarker
“If you're male and you're not getting enough sleep, your nighttime erections are eliminated. And nighttime erections are an important biomarker for sexual health, psychological health and cardiovascular health.”
Bryan Johnson Feb 20, 2024 ▶ 1:07:08 Bryan Johnson: Five Habits for Longer Living
WTF Assertion Supported
Johnson: Airborne Particulates Lodge in Tissues, Causing Systemic Damage
“These contaminants wreak havoc on the body. It can create neurological dysfunction. It can cause asthma. It can cause lung irritation. It just like its whole body damage. It gets into tissues. It lodges in. It's very hard to remove it. So it's not like somethi…”
Bryan Johnson Feb 2, 2025 ▶ 1:32 Ep #21 | WTF is Longevity? | Nikhil ft. Nithin Kamath, Bryan Johnson, Prashanth, Jitendra & Seema · Nikhil Kamath
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported
Johnson: Braintree built Uber's original invisible checkout payment infrastructure
“We helped Uber do their no the payment experience where you get in the car, you arrive at your destination, you leave the car, no exchange of payment information, no signing of receipts, no printing out receipts.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 5:26 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported
Johnson: Braintree's first product was a background credit card vault for OpenTable
“The first product was for OpenTable. It was just allowing someone to make a reservation, put in their credit card number and have it stored. So to the user, it appeared as if I was entering my credit card information in the OpenTable system, when in fact they'…”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 11:00 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported
Johnson: Ginkgo Bioworks was an early OS Fund investment that worked on mRNA vaccines
“Ginkgo Bioworks, one of my first investments, I ended up working on the mRNA vaccine.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 23:44 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Partly supported
Johnson: Kernel built a light-based neuroimaging helmet that sets up in one minute
“What we, at Kernel what we've done is we've built a neuroimaging helmet. Like you said, Sam, you just put it on your head. It takes one minute to set up. It uses light to measure the brain activity.”
Bryan Johnson Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 28:56 How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, thousands of episodes across every show transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.