211: "Can You Tell Me About the Testicles?" with Tim Ferriss

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Mike welcomes the author of The Four-Hour Work Week and many other best-selling books, not only to discuss the excellent advice for which Tim Ferriss has become famous, but rather to unpack the question he posed to Mike in 2008. The question that led to one of the most uncomfortable TED Talks of all time, and a speaking career Mike didn’t know he wanted.

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0:00.0	Hey there it's Mike Rowe this is the way I heard it episode number 211 this one's
0:08.4	called can you tell me about the testicles can you tell me about the testicles? That was a real question.
0:15.0	Posed to me in earnest 13 years ago by today's guest, the one and only Tim Ferris.
0:22.0	Turned out to be a pretty important question. the one and only Tim Ferris.
0:22.6	Turned out to be a pretty important question
0:25.0	that led to an answer, I dare say you won't soon forget.
0:28.3	I hope not anyway.
0:29.9	We start with the true story of one of the greatest performances of all time, in my opinion,
0:35.6	famously executed, not so long ago, from a modest stage in a little town up north.
0:42.1	Now if you're a fan of the 60s you will know the town and if you're a
0:45.2	fan of true excellence you'll know the performance but you may not know the performer as well
0:51.7	as you think you do and you might be surprised by
0:54.8	the amount of time it took him to change the way people think about that which is
0:59.8	truly excellent and memorable and that which is merely mediocre and
1:05.8	forgettable. That tale bleeds somewhat seamlessly I think into a less famous
1:10.9	performance by yours truly delivered not so famously from another
1:16.4	modest stage in another little town this one a little town out west I refer to what turned out to be the most consequential performance of my
1:27.0	career inspired by the aforementioned question from my aforementioned guest the one and only Tim Ferris, who famously asked me, and I'm quoting,
1:36.7	Mike, can you tell me about the testicles? The honest answer to that question is the reason I have a speaking career today
1:46.4	and for that reason I invited Tim onto the podcast to discuss the power of advice from deliberate to accidental and the pressure
1:56.7	that sometimes comes from dispensing it. Tim Ferris if you didn't know it is the host of the Tim Ferris show, one of the most popular
2:04.8	podcasts in the world.
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