AI Body Doubles, Conor McGregor, $15M Podcast, Rich People & Health

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
And then we have another guy, Larry Ellison, billionaire guy, you know, 50 billion plus. He started Oracle.
He says, death has never made any sense to me. How can a person be there and just vanish and just not be there?

**Shaan Puri** (0:13)
Was he stoned?

**Sam Parr** (0:14)
What'd he say? Dude, I got a lot of stuff to talk about today, do you?

**Shaan Puri** (0:27)
Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to see, you know, I want to say something.
People have been a little bit spoiled by this podcast, I gotta say. I can say a little spoiled. People just expect that every single episode is gonna be a banger. Every single episode is just gonna bring a little smile to your face, put a little money in your pocket, give you a little nugget of wisdom that you might be able to say to somebody throughout the day and they think you were that wise. And I think people got a little spoiled. Not every podcast is gonna be a banger. Not every podcast is gonna deliver. Not every day is gonna be one of those days. Some days you just don't have it.
But today is not that day. Today we have it.

**Sam Parr** (1:07)
You have it too?

**Shaan Puri** (1:08)
I just looked at the document. I saw what you had on there. I don't know anything about these topics. I'm excited to hear what you got.

**Sam Parr** (1:14)
Let me bring up the first topic.
Rich people and health. And I'm talking like really rich people. And the reason I was interested in this is Sam Altman, all the rage right now.
Sam Altman helped run Y Combinator and then now is the CEO of OpenAI. And he's in the news because he did this thing in front of the Senate and he was very endearing. He's incredibly likable and he's also very successful.
I read this article and it said something about two things that stood out. It said something like he put all of his liquid net worth. So he said in this article, he goes, I basically put 100% of my liquid net worth into two companies. The first is Helion Energy. He invested his own money, $375 million of his own money. And the second business was called Retro. It's a health company. He invested $180 million. So that kind of caught my eye.

**Shaan Puri** (2:12)
And by the way, remember, we did a segment on Sam, I don't know, a couple months ago. And it was because I had read this thing that Sam Altman led the round in Helion with 300 something million dollars.
And I started texting people being like, how much money does Sam have that he's investing 300 million into a single company? Does he have a fund? Does he secretly have a fund? And some people were like, no, he might have a fund. It wouldn't be a surprise. But I think this was personal.
And it just didn't make sense. And we did this whole deep dive because that one number just sounded outrageous. And now this is some new information that he's saying, yeah, I actually did put all my eggs in two basket, two, two eggs in one basket in a recent article.

**Sam Parr** (2:54)
There's a quote from him admitting, he goes, I basically put all of my liquid net worth into that.
And so retro health kind of caught my eye. And then in another article that just came out, he said that he was talking about his daily routine. And he talked about his, like he's obsessed with like, everyone used to talk about how he was obsessed with the end of the world. So he has like this property that has like gas, mass and all this other shit, whatever. That's interesting, but we've talked about that. But then he also says that he's really obsessed with anti-aging. And he goes, it's mostly simple stuff. I try to eat healthy, I exercise, I sleep enough and I take Metformin.
That caught my eye.

**Shaan Puri** (3:29)
One of these does not belong. Yeah.
One of these is things my mom advises me to do. All of these are things my mom advises me to do, except for one.

**Sam Parr** (3:37)
Yeah, so the Metformin, they caught my eye. And also that he put $300 million of his own money. He goes, I take Metformin and he goes, I also hope to one day take retro health medicines, which they haven't come out with yet.
Have you heard of Metformin? Do you know what this is?

**Shaan Puri** (3:50)
I've heard about this because Vitalik, the guy from Ethereum, he was on someone's podcast and they, instead of asking about crypto, at one point they were like, let's talk about other stuff you're super into, like, oh, longevity, you're interested in health.