A Star Talk fans, Neil deGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist, and as we enter our

eleventh season, yeah I said it, yeah you heard it, eleventh season of Star Talk. We've decided to

move the posting time of our show from Friday nights at 7 p.m. to Monday afternoons at 3.

As it turns out, many of you like to listen to Star Talk when you drive, walk, or take the train,

or use any of the mode of transportation throughout your universe. So we want to bring you

Star Talk right when you need it. Thanks for listening to the Star Talk podcast, and remember to keep

looking up. Welcome to Star Talk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

Star Talk begins right now. Welcome to Star Talk on Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.

On rare occasions, I sit down to interview someone whose presence is powerful, entertaining and

enlightening all at once. And the conversation that comes out of that encounter is so inspiring or

in live-in-ing that we must depart from our usual studio format in exchange for some one-on-one time.

On one such occasion, I sat down with entrepreneur, author, and podcaster Tim Ferris. That interaction

led us all at Star Talk to break format for this special episode. Instead of our usual panel of

in-studio expert guests, comedians, and scientists, what follows is my uninterrupted conversation with Tim

from Star To Finish. Tim is best known as an angel investor and advisor for startups.

And the most notable startups he's either invested in or advised are Uber, Twitter,

Ever-No, and TaskRabbit. He's also the author of several books, including the four-hour workweek,

the four-hour chef, and tools of Titans. For this first part of the conversation, we got to know

about Tim and the life that prepared him to become such a prolific author. So let's go to that conversation

now. Tim? Yes, sir. Welcome to Star Talk. Thank you for having me. So you got a podcast of your own.

Well, let me think, what would be a name for that podcast?

You know, one of my friends suggested Tim Tim Talk Talk, which I vetoed,

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