Backstage with Bryan Johnson at The Long Play, where everyone wanted a selfie

• The Long Play is a series bringing together leaders, builders, creators, and thinkers who are shaping what comes next.
• For the first edition, attendees heard from Bryan Johnson, Jason Blum, Joanna Strober, and Carina Hong.
• Ben Bergman shared what it was like backstage.

I was eating a cup of fruit standing backstage at the Long Play, the first edition of Business Insider's new live event series, when Bryan Johnson, who has amassed more than 2.4 million Instagram followers for extolling the lifestyle of living forever, strolled in with his partner, Kate Tolo.

Fortunately, my meal was healthy and I could sense Johnson's seal of approval. But he said he couldn't partake because we were well past his strict cut-off for any form of eating before his mandatory 8:30 PM bedtime. Rules are rules.

People love taking selfies with Johnson and another speaker, Joanna Strober, founder and CEO of Midi Health, was not shy about immediately asking him for one. He politely obliged. "Can I also get a video?" she asked.

Since the floodgates were open, I could not resist asking him for a selfie too before he went on stage to discuss why Silicon Valley founders need to have more sex and shared a test for figuring out your biological age.

The event was held at The Exploratorium, a museum known for hands-on displays, located on the San Francisco waterfront. The Long Play also featured Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse, and Carina Hong, founder and CEO of Axiom Math.

An audience of more than 100 people gathered to snack on poke bowls and chicken thighs, and to glean insights about what the future holds in this perilous moment for AI when everyone is trying to figure out how to stay one step ahead of the bots.

But if they were looking for advice from Johnson, they were not going to get it.

"Nobody has anything intelligent to say about the future," he said.