A slew of podcasters are building massive followings and businesses by tapping into human curiosity about living longer.

• Why it matters: Enthusiasm for the topic has grown as streamers and celebrities swarm the field, which once was largely confined to niche podcasts and books, Axios' Sara Fischer and Alison Snyder write.

💡 What's happening: Longevity has long been a fantasy of wealthy entrepreneurs trying to invest their way into a breakthrough that money hasn't been able to buy.

• But the rise of direct-to-consumer media — podcasts, social platforms and streaming — has helped to bring those discussions to the masses.
• Netflix last month debuted a new series, "Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones," which chronicles unique communities around the world where people live extraordinarily long lives.

How it works: A relatively small circle of longevity podcasters reinforce one another's reach. Their work then finds its way into the mainstream, feeding the public's insatiable appetite for content about living longer.

Case in point: The most successful longevity podcaster is Andrew Huberman, an associate professor of neurobiology at Stanford.

• Huberman has over 10 million followers across social media. His show, Huberman Lab, consistently ranks in the top 10 most-listened-to podcasts in America, per Chartable.

🔎 Between the lines: Huberman often cites other longevity podcasters, including Peter Attia and David Sinclair, bolstering their followings and businesses.

• Sinclair, Attia, and others have all made the New York Times bestseller list.
• Some top podcasters, including Joe Rogan and Dax Shepard, also feature their work.

🔎 Reality check: Beyond commonly understood lifestyle practices — a healthy diet, consistent exercise, social interaction, adequate sleep — some scientists say there's not much out there that's proven to be effective in extending how long someone can live healthily.

But there's a lot that can be done to prevent people from getting sick in the first place, said Matt Kaeberlein, a biologist at the University of Washington whose research focuses on aging.

• Focusing on extreme longevity can be a distraction from what's already here, Kaeberlein adds: "If we can target the biology of aging and give one or two more decades of healthy life span, that is a huge deal."

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The Washington Post says: Don't believe our own poll! And ABC News has extensive nuance that takes out some of the sting for Democrats. But you'll hear a lot about this from former President Trump:

• A Post-ABC poll this morning has Trump beating President Biden by 10 points — 52% to 42% — among registered voters in a hypothetical 2024 national matchup (1,006 U.S. adults, with an error margin of ± 3.5 points).

Why it matters: The gap is an outlier. But the results follow the pattern of nearly every other poll, which all show Biden facing major red flags for re-election, Axios' Josh Kraushaar tells me.

🥊 Reality check: There isn't a national election. What will matter is the result in the six swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

🖼️ The big picture: Trump's sizable lead "is significantly at odds with other public polls that show the general election contest a virtual dead heat," The Post says in a front-pager.

• The differences "suggest it is probably an outlier."

Also today, an NBC News poll has Biden and Trump tied among registered voters, 46% to 46%.

• But Biden's disapproval in both polls is 56% (a record in the NBC poll) — dangerous territory for any incumbent.

🧠 What's happening: ABC News' Gary Langer, one of the most respected pollsters, is less dismissive, but says a few factors help explain the 10-point gap.

• The result is "up 3 points for Trump and down 2 points for Biden from an ABC/Post poll in February, shifts that are not statistically significant."
• "Biden's poor performance ratings, the extent of economic discontent, the immigration crisis and doubts about his age clearly are relevant. All have been the subject of extensive recent news coverage ... Trump, meanwhile, has used his criminal indictments to bolster his base."
• "Question order can be a factor. ... [T]his survey asked first about Biden and Trump's performance ... Since many results are negative toward Biden, it follows that he's lagging in 2024 support. Nonetheless, those sentiments are real."

Langer also points to "message-sending":

"Biden is broadly unpopular ... [W]herever they end up in more than a year, a substantial number of Americans today are taking the opportunity to express their displeasure."

Among respondents who say Trump should be prohibited by the Constitution from serving again, 18% support him over Biden, Langer adds:

• "Such people seem to be expressing their antipathy toward Biden, not their support for Trump."

Go deeper: Langer's analysis.

House Republicans are gearing up for one last attempt to pass a spate of party-line government spending bills before government funding runs out on Saturday, Andrew Solender and Juliegrace Brufke report.

• Why it matters: Top GOP lawmakers hope that passing the bills will put them in a stronger negotiating position with the Senate as they try to avert a government shutdown without igniting a right-wing revolt.

👂 What we're hearing: During a call yesterday, House GOP leaders tried to sell their members on their plan to pass a few annual spending bills and then pivot to a measure to keep the government funded temporarily.

• Speaker McCarthy made the case for the stopgap measure, which includes the GOP's border bill, telling those on the call: "We are missing a chance to beat up Biden on the border and actually have a victory."

State of play: The House is set to vote Tuesday to bring four funding bills — for the departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security and Agriculture — to the floor.

• The bills would be dead on arrival in the Democrat-led Senate and wouldn't avert a government shutdown.
• But GOP leaders are "trying to get this process on a path where we can truly reduce spending," Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.), a McCarthy ally, told reporters.

🥊 Reality check: It's not yet clear whether those Republicans will have the support within their conference to advance those bills to a final vote — much less pass them.

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The Washington National Cathedral dedicated new racial-justice-themed stained glass windows, titled "Now and Forever."

• Why it matters: They replace windows honoring Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, which were removed in 2017.

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Half of U.S. adults say they're open to signing a prenup, Carly Mallenbaum writes from a Harris Poll survey conducted for Axios.

• Why it matters: Americans are getting hitched later in life. So they often have individual assets — and debt — to consider before marrying.

🧮 By the numbers: 50% of U.S. adults said they at least somewhat support the use of prenups — although only 1 in 5 married couples have one.

• That's up from last year, when Harris Poll found that 42% of polled adults support the use of prenups.

Reality check: Even if you factor in the recent wedding boom that pushed down the marriage-to-divorce rate, 40% of marriages end in divorce.

Two millennial women have started an online platform, HelloPrenup, that charges a flat fee of $599.

• Go deeper: Prenups aren't just for rich people anymore (The New Yorker) ... Share this story.

This would be America's 22nd government shutdown in five decades.

• The longest government shutdown — 34 days — was the most recent, from late 2018 to early 2019, Axios' April Rubin writes.

Go deeper: Historic shutdown data ... Full story.

Rupert Murdoch and Muhammad Ali at the American Australian Gala at Cipriani's in Manhattan in 2004.

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These American flamingos were spotted Friday on a Lake Michigan beach in Port Washington, Wis., about 25 miles north of Milwaukee.

• Why it matters: This marked the first sighting of the species in Wisconsin state history, Mark Korducki, a member of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, tells AP.

The typical range of the American flamingo is Florida and other Gulf Coast states + the Caribbean and northern South America.

• But there have been recent reports of flamingos in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Wildlife biologists hypothesize they were pushed north last month by Hurricane Idalia.

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