{"id":38988,"date":"2025-05-23T16:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T20:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38988"},"modified":"2025-05-23T16:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T20:46:20","slug":"untold-the-liver-king-2025-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38988","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Untold: The Liver King&#8221; (2025) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z052325zview_liverking.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Untold: The Liver King <\/strong><\/em>(2025)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Joe Pearlman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This documentary looks at the rise and fall of Brian Johnson aka The Liver King.\u00a0 Johnson became an influencer who promoted what he called an &#8220;ancestral lifestyle&#8221;.\u00a0 Johnson said that by eating large amounts of raw meat and organs, specifically liver, one would become healthier with much more energy.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson claimed that he was undersized as a kid and often bullied.\u00a0 His research into a healthier lifestyle led him to his understanding of a diet that made our ancestors strong.\u00a0 \u00a0Johnson repeatedly denied ever using steroids.\u00a0 He claimed that his muscles came from eating raw meat and exercise.\u00a0 Johnson started a supplement company based around based around eating raw meat and his nine &#8220;ancestral tenets&#8221;.\u00a0 He made millions.<\/p>\n<p>Later it came to light that Brian Johnson was a liar.\u00a0 He not only regularly used multiple steroids and testosterone, but was spending over $10,000.00 a month on pharmaceuticals.\u00a0 Johnson&#8217;s reputation was shot.\u00a0 His subscribers base dwindled and he was named in a class action suit for $25 million for his deception.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had never heard of The Liver King before this documentary.\u00a0 If anyone ever came off as a snake oil salesman, it is Brian Johnson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Untold: The Liver King (2025) <\/strong><\/em>rates 3 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z052325zview_liverking2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Untold: The Liver King (2025) Director:\u00a0 Joe Pearlman Tagline: None. The Plot&#8230; This documentary looks at the rise and fall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38989,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38988\/revisions\/38989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}