Sneak Peek: The Peter Attia Drive

**Olivia Attia** (0:10)
Hi, my name is Olivia Attia. Today's guest is Peter Attia. Welcome to The Peter Attia Drive, Peter Attia.
That's weird. This is like Oprah making the cover of Oprah Magazine.
Okay, this is a preview of what's to come on the podcast and a little about you. It's the Clark Griswold episode. Double zero, first things first, who are you and why the heck are you making a podcast? Does the world really need another podcast?

**Peter Attia** (0:39)
Well, fair question, maybe it doesn't, but I'll start with who I am. My name is Peter Attia, as you've already stated. I'm a physician and a guy who's interested in a bunch of things, and I've spent a lot of years writing about them, and I decided it was maybe time to start podcasting. A number of my friends, people like Tim Ferriss, Kevin Rose, Jaco, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Anahat O'Connor have been sort of cajoling me into doing one for some time now.

**Olivia Attia** (1:06)
What does cajoling mean?

**Peter Attia** (1:07)
Like to, you know, sort of trying to talk me into it. Anyway, so I realize now, having been a guest on a number of podcasts, that doing one of my own could be kind of a remarkable opportunity to talk to and learn from some really smart and interesting people and to share experiences with them.
There's kind of a freedom in this structure that I guess I find a little bit more appealing at this time than just writing. So I guess that's probably the reason why I think it's time to start working on this.

**Olivia Attia** (1:36)
Why is your podcast called The Drive? Have you considered it calling it The Ice Cream? I bet you get more downloads, at least from me and my friends.

**Peter Attia** (1:44)
Yeah, that's probably true. And don't take this the wrong way, but I'm not really catering to you and your friends on this one. I'm calling it The Drive because I think it's a bit of a play on two themes. The first is I think when you're exploring topics, sometimes it's like going on a drive and you don't necessarily know where you're going and you're winding through the roads. And of course, at the other end of that, it's anybody who knows me knows I really enjoy driving. So I guess I just didn't want to call it The Peter Attia Show.
Now, as I mentioned, I think over the last few years, I've especially as I've been researching for the book, I've had a lot of opportunity to speak with some really, really awesome people on topics that interest me, if not outright consume me. Things like lipidology, endocrinology, IGF, rapamycin, autophagy, mTOR.
And then of course, I also think it would be fun to talk about Aretin Senna watches and pens. I'm sure you know what the 80-20 rule is, right?

**Olivia Attia** (2:50)
Uh, why don't you refresh my memory? And while you're edit, what the heck is mTOR? Is that the thing you have on your license plate?

**Peter Attia** (2:57)
Yes, look at you. All right, yes, that's right. I do have mTOR on my license plate, and meh, I won't get into what mTOR is now. The 80-20 rule is that basically, or it's a variation of this theme, where you can sort of put in 20% of the effort to get 80% of the results. And while I think that that's a wonderful principle, I sort of find myself obsessed with the last 20%, meaning how do you go from 80% of the results to 100% of the results? Although of course, that's an elusive, impossible task.
But luckily, there are a lot of people out there who are closer to that 100% than I'll ever be. And I guess part of my hope with doing this podcast is being able to sort of talk to those people, learn from them, and in the process, hopefully give people who are listening something interesting to learn about and understand as well.

**Olivia Attia** (3:46)
And you're gonna talk about Ayrton's Senate and watches too?

**Peter Attia** (3:49)
I mean, almost assuredly at some point, yeah. I guess there's no point in having a podcast if you can't talk about all the things that you enjoy. And I certainly do enjoy things that have to do with Ayrton's Senate and watches and race cars and all sorts of other things like, you know, stuff we won't talk about necessarily right now.

**Olivia Attia** (4:10)
How many podcasts have you recorded so far?

**Peter Attia** (4:12)
I think four or five out of what I had planned to do, which was record 12 out of the gate. The goal is to finish that up by the end of June. And then from July on, just release the 12 over the summer.