This is episode one of the Tim Ferriss Podcast. My name is Tim Ferriss. For those of you who don't have any context on me on the author of The Four Hour Work Week, The Four Hour Body and The Four Hour Chef, which have been translated into more than 35 languages, and all three books are comprised of self-experiments.

I travel the world, I find people who were world-class in different skills, and then I try to dissect that skill and test it all myself, and that can range from performance-enhancing drugs to hacking the NFL combine, to outsourcing my life to India, to cramming two years of culinary school into 48 hours, or trying to learn a foreign language in a few days well enough to go on live television and be interviewed.

And it's in search of a toolkit, you do not have to be super human to get super human results. And to that end, this podcast is going to be a lot like inside the actor's studio, but not limited to actors. We will have in-depth, conversational interviews with actors, investors, hackers, professional athletes, black market chemists, and everybody in between. It'll be very wide-ranging, but covering it all is really the 80-20 analysis.

And in the process of speaking with these people, we'll try to suss out what are the critical few things versus the trivial many? What are the 20% of tactics, philosophies, principles that they use to get 80% of the results they've had?

And there should be a lot of actionable bits hidden in there, or not so hidden in there, for you to use in your life, or at least to inspire you.

So it'll range from tactics, to strategies, to philosophies, to motivations that they use to become the best in the world.

Without further ado, I would like to introduce you through the interview to our first guest, who is Kevin Rose, a very good friend of mine, a world-class investor and entrepreneur in his own right.

And his thoughts on investing translate to many different areas in life. So I hope you enjoy it, and thank you for listening.

I think this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking.

Can I ask you a personal question?

Now I just sit in a perfect time.

What if I did the island?

I must have a netty-borganism, living tissue or a nettle in the sky.

Alright, so, let's start over. This is experimental, we're figuring it out.

So, Kevin, would you mind doing the honors?

I'll do the intro as long as you promise I don't have to do this every single time.

You do not.

Okay, thank you.

Once it's recorded, I can just use it repeatedly.

Welcome everybody.

Sexy and smart ladies and gentlemen, this is not Tim Tim Talk Talk.

We have to think up a better name for the podcast.

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