The Tim Ferriss Show

This is a short excerpt from the full 1+ hour interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger, which is going live after the Super Bowl.

The full episode will be available on iTunes, and you won't want to miss it. Subscribe and get it as soon as it's released!

Enjoy :)

Tim

Direct download: Arnold_5_min_-_final.mp3
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(Part 2 of 2) How do you create a blockbuster podcast? This episode explores the tips, tricks, and best practices of a master.

My guest is Alex Blumbergwho cut his teeth on the king of all radio shows (This American Life) and recently co-founded Gimlet Media. Gimlet swiftly conquered the iTunes rankings with two blockbuster podcasts: Reply All and StartUp.

Podcasters everywhere asked: how the hell does he do it?  This episode provides some answers. (This Part 2 also includes a sample of my upcoming Arnold Schwarzenegger episode!)

Show notes and links mentioned can be found at fourhourworkweek.com/podcast

Direct download: Tim_Ferriss_Show_-_Alex_Blumberg_Part_2.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:50am EDT

How do you create a blockbuster podcast? This episode explores the tips, tricks, and best practices of a master.

My guest is Alex Blumbergwho cut his teeth on the king of all radio shows (This American Life) and recently co-founded Gimlet Media. Gimlet swiftly conquered the iTunes rankings with two blockbuster podcasts: Reply All and StartUp.

Podcasters everywhere asked: how the hell does he do it?  This episode provides some answers.

The discussion is split into two parts, and we cover a ton. Please listen to both parts, as they work together. We discuss what Alex learned from Ira Glass, his field recording gear, the nuts and bolts of producing world-class audio narrative, and much more.

Part 2 also features a preview (5 min) of my episode with Arnold Schwarzenegger!

Show notes and links mentioned can be found at fourhourworkweek.com/podcast

Direct download: Tim_Ferriss_Show_-_Alex_Blumberg_Part_1.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:42am EDT

By popular demand, this is a follow-up episode with Pavel Tsatsouline, a world-class strength coach.

In this ep, he answers your 15 most popular questions, as voted on by nearly 1,000 of you.

Show notes and links for both of Pavel's episodes can be found here: www.fourhourworkweek.com/pavel

Direct download: Tim_Ferriss_Show_-_Pavel_QA_Final.mp3
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Dr. Peter Diamandis has been named one of “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders" by Fortune Magazine.

You asked for an entire episode with him, so here it is!  The subject is simple: How to think big, and how to use the key strategies of Peter's friends and investors, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Larry Page. How do they create maximum leverage? How do they think differently? We explore all of this.

SHOW NOTES and other links should be available shortly here.

In the field of innovation, Diamandis is Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation. Among many other things, Diamandis is also the Co-Founder (along with Craig Venter and Bob Hariri) of Human Longevity Inc. (HLI); and Co-Founder of Planetary Resources, a company designing spacecraft to mine asteroids for precious materials (seriously).

If I could ask one person to write one book, it would Peter and his new tome, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World.  In fact, I have been asking him for years, and now it has arrived.  The back cover also gave me serious blurb envy. Check out these testimonials from Bill Clinton, Eric Schmidt, and Ray Kurzweil. Ray says simply: “If you read one business book in the twenty-first century, this should be the one."

 

Direct download: FINAL_Peter_Diamandis_Bold_TFS.mp3
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This episode was a real treat.  It was one of the most enlightening and lucid conversations about physical training I've ever had.  Show notes and links from this episode can be found here.

Pavel Tsatsouline is Chairman of StrongFirst, Inc. and was born in Minsk, USSR, which is now part of Belarus. 

In the 1980s, he was a physical-training instructor for Spetnaz, the elite Soviet special-forces units. Pavel is now a subject matter expert to the US Marine Corps, the US Secret Service, and the US Navy SEALs, and he is widely credited with introduced the now ubiquitous kettlebell to the United States. 

Over the last several years, Pavel has become a friend, and his input was critical to the success (and experiments) of The 4-Hour Body.

Whether you've heard of him or not, prepare to have your mind blown, and I don't say that lightly :)

All episodes and show notes can be found at www.fourhourworkweek.com/podcast

Direct download: Tim_Ferriss_Show_-_Pavel_Tsatsouline.mp3
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By popular demand, an entire episode dedicated to exploring the microbiome!

Are you really 90% bacteria and 10% human? How can you manage or optimize your own microbiome? Should we do fecal-matter transplants from "untouched" indigenous tribes to reverse chronic illness?  We tackle all this and much more.

Jessica Richman is co-founder and CEO of uBiome, a startup backed by Y Combinator and Andreesen Horowitz, which uses citizen science to understand the human microbiome. Jessica attended Stanford University, where she earned degrees in economics and interdisciplinary engineering. She then got a fellowship to Oxford University for her PhD in computational social science. Her work has been featured in Wired, Popular Science, MIT Technology Review, NYT, and dozens of other media outlets.

Jonathan Eisen is a Full Professor at the University of California, Davis with appointments in the School of Medicine and the College of Biological Sciences. Dr. Eisen’s research focuses on the evolution, ecology and function of communities of microorganisms.  His study systems have included boiling acid pools, surface ocean waters, buildings, agents of many diseases, and the microbial ecosystems (also known as microbiomes) that are found living in and on plants and animals.  In addition to his research, Dr. Eisen is a vocal advocate for “open science” especially “open access” to scientific publications.  He earned a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University and an A.B. in Biology from Harvard College.

 

Direct download: TFS_Jessica_Richman_Jonathan_Eisen.mp3
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