#572: In Case You Missed It: January 2022 Recap of The Tim Ferriss Show

John List (0:08)

Now is the appropriate time.

Tim Ferriss (0:24)

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show. Where it is my job to deconstruct world-class performers of all different types to tease out the routines, habits and so on that you can apply to your own lives. This is a special in-between episode. I haven't done one of these in a while. And it is a first of a kind experiment on this podcast. It is a recap of the episodes from last month. So we're pulling snippets from all the episodes from last month. It features the first 15 or so minutes from each conversation in one place. So you can easily jump around to get a taste for each episode and each guest. I wanna know what you think because if this works, fantastic. If it can be improved, fantastic. If it's terrible, not fantastic, please let me know. So look at it as a teaser, something to whet your appetite. If you like what you hear, then you can jump into each of the episodes or any of the episodes at tim.blogslashpodcast. But I recognize you got a lot of demands on your time and this is an easy way to provide a buffet, a sampler of sorts.

And then you can choose, pick and choose your favorites. So please enjoy and again, send feedback. If you think other formats would work better for this or you have other ideas for experimental formats for the podcast that I could play with, please send it on Twitter to at tferriss, T-F-E-R-R-I-S-S and at team Tim Ferris.

Good luck spelling that. If you're a long-term listener, I hope you can at this point spell that.

And just hashtag experiment for now and that'll help us find it. But you can send feedback on Twitter. And as always, thank you for listening.

I'm so excited to have my guest today. His name is Rich Roll. And I'm gonna start in an unorthodox way. And that is by reading a tweet. I don't really do this. I don't know if I've ever done this, but this is a tweet from October 2018 And I think Rich is probably gonna see where this is going. Just before his 52nd birthday, here's the tweet. I didn't reach my athletic peak until I was 43 I didn't write my first book until I was 44 I didn't start my podcast until I was 45 At 30, I thought my life was over. At 52, I know it's just beginning. Keep running, never give up and watch your kites soar.

Then there's actually another tweet within context. So I've retweeted this for people who wanna see it. They can also find it, of course, at Rich Roll, R-O-L-L.

I wanna mention one more thing before we get to more of the bio, and that is related to your first half Ironman. So this is an outside magazine, and here's the quote. In my first half Ironman, I barfed during the swim. By the time I got off my bike, my legs were so cramped up that I ran 100 meters for you yanks like me, that's about 300 feet, and just stopped. It was DNF, that means he did not finish.

My beginnings in triathlon were very humble, but I loved it.

All right, so I'm gonna give this in drips and drabs, but let's start with paragraph one. So now, zooming out to present day, a little bit of retrospective. At age 40, Rich Roll, as I mentioned, at Rich Roll on Twitter, made the decision to overhaul the sedentary throws of overweight middle age. And I might, I may or may not, be in that place just right now.

Walking away from a career in law, he reinvented himself as a globally recognized ultra distance endurance athlete, bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Rich Roll podcast, which I highly recommend. One of the world's most listened to podcasts with more than 200 million downloads. And I'm gonna modify the next paragraph a little bit. Rich has been named one of the 25 fittest men in the world by Men's Fitness and the guru of reinvention by Outside Magazine. He's written a best-selling memoir, Finding Ultra, and has co-authored the cookbooks slash lifestyle guides, The Plant Power Way and The Plant Power Way Italia with his wife, Julie, is it Piat?

Rich Roll (4:28)

Piat.

Tim Ferriss (4:28)

Damn it, I knew I had a 50-50 chance there.

Rich Roll (4:31)

It's a common thing, you're not alone.

Tim Ferriss (4:35)

This is showing and how the sausage is made because a professional would have asked, and in fact, I highlighted her last name to ask you before we started recording. But you know, we live in a world.