The Peter Attia Drive - June 19, 2018


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6 minutes

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182.3062

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1,132

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2

Hate Speech Sentences

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Transcript

00:00:00.000 hi my name is olivia atia today's guest is peter atia welcome to the peter atia drive peter atia
00:00:19.560 hmm that's weird this is like oprah making the cover of oprah magazine okay this is a preview
00:00:26.500 of what's to come on the podcast and a little about you it's the clark griswold episode double zero
00:00:32.540 first things first who are you and why the heck are you making a podcast does the world really
00:00:37.800 need another podcast well fair question maybe it doesn't but i'll start with who i am my name is
00:00:43.120 peter atia as you've already stated i'm a physician and a guy who's interested in a bunch of things and
00:00:50.560 i've spent a lot of years writing about them and i decided it was maybe time to start podcasting
00:00:56.480 a number of my friends people like tim ferris kevin rose jaco patrick o'shaughnessy anahat o'connor
00:01:02.440 have been sort of cajoling me into doing one for some time now what does cajoling mean like to you
00:01:08.700 know sort of trying to talk me into it anyway so i realize now having been a guest on a number of
00:01:14.520 podcasts that doing one of my own could be kind of a remarkable opportunity to talk to and learn from
00:01:20.580 some really smart and interesting people and to share experiences with them there's kind of a
00:01:25.800 freedom in this structure that i guess i find a little bit more appealing at this time than just
00:01:30.220 writing so i guess that's probably the reason why i think it's time to start working on this
00:01:36.480 why is your podcast called the drive have you considered it calling the ice cream i'd bet you
00:01:42.220 get more downloads at least from me and my friends yeah that's probably true and don't take this the
00:01:47.740 wrong way but i'm not really catering to you and your friends on this one i'm calling it the drive
00:01:53.080 because i think it's a bit of a play on two themes the first is i think when you're exploring topics
00:02:01.080 sometimes it's like going on a drive and you don't necessarily know where you're going and you're
00:02:05.320 winding through the roads and of course at the other end of that it's anybody who knows me knows i
00:02:10.700 really enjoy driving so i guess i just didn't want to call it the peter atia show now as i mentioned i
00:02:19.620 think over the last few years i've especially as i've been researching for the book i've had a lot
00:02:25.100 of opportunity to speak with some really really awesome people on topics that interest me if not
00:02:32.020 outright consume me things like lipidology endocrinology igf rapamycin autophagy mtor and then
00:02:42.740 of course i also think it would be fun to talk about aerotin senna watches and pens i'm sure you know
00:02:48.480 what the 80 20 rule is right uh why don't you refresh my memory and while you're at it what the
00:02:54.280 heck is mtor is that the thing you have on your license plate uh yes look at you all right yes
00:02:59.580 that's right i do have mtor on my license plate and i won't get into what mtor is now the 80 20 rule is
00:03:07.120 that basically or it's a variation of this theme where you can sort of put in 20 of the effort to
00:03:12.760 get 80 of the results and while i think that that's a wonderful principle i sort of find myself
00:03:18.320 obsessed with the last 20 meaning how do you go from 80 of the results to 100 of the results although
00:03:25.620 of course that's an elusive impossible task but luckily there are a lot of people out there who
00:03:31.100 are closer to that 100 than i'll ever be and i guess part of my hope with doing this podcast is being able
00:03:36.720 to sort of talk to those people learn from them and in the process hopefully give people who are
00:03:41.880 listening something interesting to learn about and understand as well and you're going to talk about
00:03:47.800 aerotin senna and watches too i mean almost assuredly at some point yeah i guess there's no point in having
00:03:53.740 a podcast if you can't talk about all the things that you enjoy and i certainly do enjoy things that
00:03:59.740 have to do with aerotin senna and watches and race cars and all sorts of other things like you know
00:04:06.500 stuff we won't talk about necessarily right now how many podcasts have you recorded so far i think
00:04:12.880 four or five out of what i had planned to do which was record 12 out of the gate the goal is to finish
00:04:21.900 that up by the end of june and then from july on just release the 12 over the summer if the feedback
00:04:30.740 is positive then i say we just keep doing it in perpetuity and if the feedback says hey your
00:04:37.040 podcast sucks then didn't really take that much time it was just 12 episodes and no harm no foul and
00:04:43.380 i'll get back to doing whatever it is i do where can people find you on social all the usual suspects
00:04:48.620 twitter instagram facebook etc my username is peter atia md though i probably spend more time on twitter
00:04:54.500 than the others uh in fact i would say that if you have questions twitter is great a place to find me
00:05:00.960 as anywhere and it's also a great place to share your favorite chevy chase movie references since the
00:05:06.060 podcast is not due out for a while how can people be alerted to its arrival well they could sign up on
00:05:12.280 our site which is peter atia md.com forward slash podcast presumably you can also do something in
00:05:18.720 itunes to be alerted to it but that goes beyond my level of technical understanding
00:05:22.960 eventually on the podcast once the episodes start going up you'll find show notes reading materials
00:05:30.040 related links and of course you can find the blog and nerd safari there as well nerd safari what the
00:05:36.820 heck is nerd safari well i'm glad you like it so much um why don't you just click on the nerd safari
00:05:43.280 link at the top of the home site and you can learn more another thing you could do while you're
00:05:47.880 there is sign up for a subjectively non-lame once a week email i try to send out to my friends i
00:05:54.500 usually include whatever is most interesting to me that week with respect to papers that i've read
00:05:59.200 or things that just strike me as interesting well peter atia thank you for joining me on the inaugural
00:06:06.100 episode of the peter atia drive i hope the rest of the guests are more interesting than you have been
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