When the “Liver King” built an empire on raw meat, steroids, and slogans about being “a real man,” what if he wasn’t selling a message based on muscles but mortality? In this episode, Savannah and Lee dig into how the fear of death shapes our obsession with control, strength, and self-sufficiency. Drawing from Untold: The Liver King, Scott Galloway’s research on the masculinity crisis, and Richard Beck’s The Slavery of Death, they trace a cultural thread that might tell us something about how we handle one of the rare, universal experiences: death.

 Things we mentioned in this episode:
<a href="https://amzn.to/4htFqEv">⁠ Reviving Old Scratch by Richard Beck⁠</a>
<a href="https://amzn.to/4nkeMiA">⁠ The Slavery of Death by Richard Beck⁠</a>
<a href="https://amzn.to/4ozGYz4">⁠ The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin⁠</a>
<a href="https://armchairexpertpod.com/pods/scott-galloway">⁠ Scott Galloway on Armchair Expert⁠</a>
<a href="https://amzn.to/3L4TGrg">⁠ The Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty⁠</a>

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