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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

211: "Can You Tell Me About the Testicles?"

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.839.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Mike welcomes Tim Ferriss, 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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Hey there it's Mike Row. This is the way I heard it, episode number 211. This one's called,

1:08.9

can you tell me about the testicles? Can you tell me about the testicles? That was

1:13.9

a real question. Posed to me in earnest, 13 years ago by today's guest, the one and only

1:20.9

Tim Ferris. Turned out to be a pretty important question that led to an answer, I dare say

1:26.9

you won't soon forget. I hope not, anyway. We start with the true story of one of the

1:32.9

greatest performances of all time, in my opinion, famously executed not so long ago, from

1:38.9

a modest stage in a little town up north. Now if you're a fan of the 60s, you will know

1:43.9

the town. And if you're a fan of true excellence, you'll know the performance. But you may not

1:50.4

know the performer as well as you think you do. And you might be surprised by the amount

1:55.4

of time it took him to change the way people think about that, which is truly excellent

2:01.9

and memorable, and that which is merely mediocre and forgettable. That tale leads somewhat

2:08.7

seamlessly, I think, into a less famous performance by yours truly, delivered not so famously from

2:16.2

another modest stage in another little town. This one, a little town out west. I refer

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