Liver King Responds To Steroid Accusations! | E171

It was like a living fucking hell. And I got the shit kicked out of me every single day. And all I wanted to do was just be different.

This is Liver King.

What up, primals? This is what we evolved with.

Cheap intesticle lungs.

You are not replacing these nutrients with fucking vegetables. 70 pound kettlebells in each hand, 70 pounds in a backpack, that's 120 pounds on top of a sled, and you go one mile. Uh, I made my son do it when he turned 15.

That sounds like toxic parenting. That's...

You know what? There's nothing toxic about this.

Joe Rogan criticized you, alluded that you're on steroids.

The Liver King thing drives me nuts.

(laughs)

'Cause that guy's on steroids. All I ask is for the opportunity to have the conversation with him face-to-face. Most people are suffering with something. 50% on prescription medication, 20% can't have babies, 70% overweight. The six tribes that I've gone and visited with, it seems non-existent.

You're making over $100 million a year from your businesses. True or false?

True. I own 10 or 12 companies right now, where every single company is based on taking this ancestral message mainstream. The world's really hurting.

What has the hardest moment of your adult life been?

The hardest moment was when my, my son, Rad, got sick. We thought we, we thought we were losing him.

Why?

Oh, God. Don't make me do this again. Part of the reason why I never wanted to publicly come out as the Liver King is because-

Without further ado, I'm Steven Bartlett, and this is The Diary of a CEO. I hope nobody's listening, but if you are, then please keep this to yourself. Liver King, I am... I'm gonna start where I always start, but for you, I'm particularly interested in this. Can you tell me the context I would need to know about your earliest years that went into shaping the man that you went on to become?

Mm-hmm.

I'm talking before 10 years old. What is that context?

Well, before 10 years old? Um, I grew up with a brother and with a mom that was mom and dad. I have no memory of my dad. When I was two or three years old, he died. He was serving in the Air Force, and he, he died. And so, my mom was really tough on us. Really tough on us. What I mean by that is, it, it seemed like, uh, you know, brothers together are always raising hell, getting in trouble. And, uh, she seemed to just beat the shit out of us. (laughs) And it's just normal. It's just normal. And then sometimes she would drop us off at, uh, her parents' house in California, and they would do the same thing. And later on, I realized, my mom got it from her dad. And they're just doing the best, right? They're, they're doing the best that they can. And, uh, and so I'll say my mom was really, really tough on me growing up. Um, she had us enrolled in all the typical sports, all the traditional sports. And, um, my b- I, I just wanted to be just like my brother. He's a year and a half older than me. I just wanted to be exactly like my brother. And here's the thing. We had two friends up the street, best friends, Chris and Aaron. And, um, they were everything. You know, going to play sports, going to hang out with these guys, going skateboarding. It just seemed like every day was full of activity. And every... And you said describe it up to 10. That was about 10. It's interesting that you said describe it up to 10, because I would say just to about 10, life was incredible. It was, like, perfect. Everything. I mean, just, like, every day was full of laughter, no responsibility. You know, falling off the skateboard, getting banged up, you know. And, and back then, you know, you could, you could take your skateboard anywhere. You know, my mom would let us go to the movies, you know, on the, on the skateboard. And so, growing up, um, I just remember things were just, up to about 10, it was just filled with so much joy. Yeah.