#640: Announcing My New Fiction Podcast Series (Plus: A 50-Second Trailer)

This is a rare day! I’m launching a new podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c%C3%B8ckpunch/id1657210471 for the first time in many years, and it’s scripted fiction. Even if you hate the name, I think most of you will enjoy the 50-second trailer. This podcast (and more) is intended to add a bit of laughter and levity to a world dominated by doomscrolling and pessimism. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c%C3%B8ckpunch/id1657210471, Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/0O9MhcUVpWSjPpMFwia1WH?si=9a0e30597f7c44fd&nd=1, or wherever you listen to podcasts http://cockpunch.com/podcast. Some background, plus Steven Pressfield on “going big”… I’ve long wanted to do an experiment with fiction and art, resurrecting those old passions. I just couldn’t find the right vehicle. The conventional options didn’t work. Then, in early 2021, the author Steven Pressfield said the following to me https://tim.blog/2021/02/26/steven-pressfield/: “[Going big] doesn’t mean it necessarily has to be 800 pages long, but just a big idea. An idea that’s kind of a scary idea, that you say to yourself, ‘When I show this to people, they’re going to look at me and go, ‘What happened to you, Tim? Are you okay?' That’s what I mean by big.” Shortly thereafter, I began dreaming bigger, dreaming stranger, and allowing myself to grab a few glasses of wine at night, sketch out the truly bat-shit crazy ideas, and go fully off-menu. This podcast is part of “going big” for the fun of it, and it’s part of a much broader art project. I hope you subscribe and stick around to see how things unfold. There are surprises in store… More can be found at, you guessed it, cockpunch.com https://cockpunch.com/. P. S. The very next episode of The Tim Ferriss Show http://tim.blog/podcast will feature an incredible interview—also a very powerful and moving interview—with one of my favorite people on the planet. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:01Speaker 00

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

• 0:06Speaker 01

  Can I ask you a personal question?

• 0:08Speaker 02

  Now would be seen appropriate time.

• 0:12Speaker 01

  I'm a cybernetic organism, living tissue over metal endoskeleton.

• 0:24Tim Ferriss?

  Well, hello, boys and girls, lemurs and squirrels. This is Tim Ferriss, and this is a rare day, a very rare day for me. I am launching a new podcast. I never do that. It's been a million years since I've done that, and you will not believe what it is. So listen to the trailer, and I'll tell you a bit more about it. Afterwards, there is more to the story.

• 0:45Speaker 00

  In a land that time forgot, nothing stands still. Power sets the rules, but magic bends them.

• 0:55Speaker 00

  Twin suns cast shadows on a fallen empire, and battles rage under the stars. From the director of The Four Hour Workweek, the producer of Tools of Titans, and the writer of How to Start a War, comes a tale of adventure, intrigue, and ancient mysteries. The legend of Cock Punch!

• 1:18Speaker 00

  In the eightfold arena, anything can happen, and everything can change. Coming soon to a platform near you. Rated B for bizarre, may not be suitable for people who take themselves too seriously. CockPunch.com.

• 1:32Tim Ferriss?

  Okay, I am back, and hopefully you found that extremely strange. That's kind of the point. Fun, absurdity, fiction. I'm trying something entirely new. The podcast, yes, is called Cock Punch, just as you think it's spelled, and you can find it wherever you find your podcasts. It is part of a new and very ambitious art project of mine, which will include fiction online and text. It'll include this podcast, maps, characters, and hopefully quite a bit more. You can think of it as Tolkien meets Alice in Wonderland. At least, that's the aspirational goal. And 100% of the primary sale proceeds are being donated to the SciSafe Foundation. A registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit private foundation that funds scientific research

• 2:14Tim Ferriss?

  related to psychedelic medicine, mental health therapeutics, and a lot more. It has funded a lot of important firsts, and you can read about those projects at saisei foundation.org. That is spelled S.A.I.S.E.I. foundation.org. Saisei, among other things, means rebirth in Japanese. I highly recommend you check it out. The truth is, if it weren't for the interventions that are studied by the researchers, that are supported by Saisei Foundation and others, I would not be here on this planet. And for me personally, as someone who suffered from treatment-resistant depression and complex PTSD, and millions, hundreds of millions of others who have suffered

• 2:55Tim Ferriss?

  from so-called intractable, untreatable, or difficult-to-treat conditions like treatment-resistant depression, complex PTSD, opiate addiction, alcoholism, end-of-life anxiety, chronic anxiety, these types of things. And these interventions and treatments that are being studied really matter and have made a difference for me personally, and have made a difference in the lives, have saved the lives of quite a few people, I know. So it's important to me. So check it out, saisei foundation.org. But back to the podcast. To move from the sublime back to the ridiculous, cock punch. Yes, if you have a second, please subscribe today. It is for a good cause. Cock punch one more time, just because it makes me giggle like an idiot. So, yes, there you have it. Please subscribe. It will really help.

• 3:38Tim Ferriss?

  Okay, back to our regularly scheduled programming. The very next episode of this podcast will come back to the interviews, and it will feature an incredible interview, one I'm very proud of, put a lot of time into. So did the guest. Also a very powerful and moving interview with one of my favorite people on the planet. So, thank you for listening, everyone. I really appreciate it, and sending much love to you and yours.

• 4:03Tim Ferriss?

  Hey guys, this is Tim again. Just one more thing before you take off, and that is Five Bullet Friday. Would you enjoy getting a short email from me every Friday that provides a little fun before the weekend? Between 1.5 and 2 million people subscribe to my free newsletter, my super short newsletter called Five Bullet Friday. Easy to sign up, easy to cancel. It is basically a half-page that I send out every Friday to share the coolest things I've found or discovered, or have started exploring over that week. It's kind of like my diary of cool things. It often includes articles I'm reading, books I'm reading, albums perhaps, gadgets, gizmos, all sorts of tech tricks and so on that get sent to me by my friends, including a lot of podcast guests.

• 4:45Tim Ferriss?

  And these strange esoteric things end up in my field, and then I test them, and then I share them with you. So if that sounds fun, again, it's very short, a little tiny bite of goodness before you head off for the weekend, something to think about. If you'd like to try it out, just go to tim.blog/friday, type that into your browser, tim.blog/friday, drop in your email, and you'll get the very next one. Thanks for listening.