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The Tim Ferriss Show

#640: Announcing My New Fiction Podcast Series (Plus: A 50-Second Trailer)

The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig

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4.617.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

This is a rare day!

I’m launching a new podcast for the first time in many years, and it’s scripted fiction. Even if you hate the name, I think most of you will enjoy the 50-second trailer. This podcast (and more) is intended to add a bit of laughter and levity to a world dominated by doomscrolling and pessimism.

Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Some background, plus Steven Pressfield on “going big”…

I’ve long wanted to do an experiment with fiction and art, resurrecting those old passions. I just couldn’t find the right vehicle. The conventional options didn’t work. Then, in early 2021, the author Steven Pressfield said the following to me:

“[Going big] doesn’t mean it necessarily has to be 800 pages long, but just a big idea. An idea that’s kind of a scary idea, that you say to yourself, ‘When I show this to people, they’re going to look at me and go, ‘What happened to you, Tim? Are you okay?' That’s what I mean by big.”

Shortly thereafter, I began dreaming bigger, dreaming stranger, and allowing myself to grab a few glasses of wine at night, sketch out the truly bat-shit crazy ideas, and go fully off-menu.

This podcast is part of “going big” for the fun of it, and it’s part of a much broader art project. I hope you subscribe and stick around to see how things unfold. There are surprises in store…

More can be found at, you guessed it, cockpunch.com.

P.S. The very next episode of The Tim Ferriss Show will feature an incredible interview—also a very powerful and moving interview—with one of my favorite people on the planet.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

optimal minimal

0:02.0

at this altitude i can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking

0:06.3

can i also you press some questions?

0:08.3

now i just see the perfect time

0:10.6

what if i did the alpha?

0:12.1

i'm a cyber nanny organism living this show where metal handles go

0:15.6

lead to ferris show

0:24.4

well hello boys and girls lemurs and squirrels this is Tim Ferris

0:27.9

and this is a rare day a very rare day for me i am launching a new podcast

0:32.6

i never do that it's been a million years since i've done that

0:35.8

and you will not believe what it is so listen to the trailer and i'll tell you

0:39.8

a bit more about it afterwards there is more to the story

0:45.3

you know land that time forgot nothing stand still

0:50.5

power sets the rules but magic bends them

0:55.0

twin sons cast shadows on a fallen empire and battles rage under the stars

1:01.2

from the director of the four hour work week the producer of tools of titans

1:05.9

and the writer of how to start a war comes a tale of adventure

1:10.5

intrigue and ancient mysteries the legend of cuck punch

1:18.0

in the eightfold arena anything can happen and everything can change

1:23.0

coming soon to a platform near you rated b for bizarre may not be suitable for

1:27.6

people who take themselves too seriously

1:32.4

okay i am back and hopefully you found that extremely strange that's kind of

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