Lo and behold! Please find transcripts for all episodes of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast below!
They go all the way back to episode #1 with my dear friend, world-class investor and entrepreneur Kevin Rose, who nicknamed the show “TimTimTalkTalk” in the first few minutes of its existence. Ah, the early days . . .
There are currently more than 850 transcripts. Newer transcripts will be added as they are published.
Each link below will take you directly to that episode’s transcript.
Enjoy!
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Before you dig in, please read the below, which applies to every transcript, and which I sadly need to post, due to previous legal headaches and related misbehavior.
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#428: Jim Jefferies on Comedy, Life Lessons, and the Magic of Filling Out Customs Forms
#427: Michael Lewis — Inside the Mind of the Iconic Writer
#426: The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts — The Random Show: Boozy Quarantine Edition!
#425: Books I’ve Loved — Cindy Eckert and Alexis Ohanian
#424: Brian Koppelman on Making Art, Francis Ford Coppola, Building Momentum, and More
#423: Rana el Kaliouby — AI, Emotional Intelligence, and the Journey of Finding Oneself
#421: Dr. Jane Goodall — The Legend, The Lessons, The Hope
#420: Books I’ve Loved — Matt Mullenweg
#419: Ryan Holiday — How to Use Stoicism to Choose Alive Time Over Dead Time
#418: Esther Perel — Tactics for Relationships in Quarantine
#417: Dr. Vivek Murthy — Former Surgeon General on Combating COVID-19, Loneliness, and More
#415: Lori Gottlieb — The Power of Getting to *Unknow* Yourself
#414: Jack Kornfield — How to Find Peace Amidst COVID-19, How to Cultivate Calm in Chaos
#413: Tyler Cowen on Rationality, COVID-19, Talismans, and Life on the Margins
#412: Josh Waitzkin on Beginner’s Mind, Self-Actualization, and Advice from Your Future Self
#411: Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind
#410: Ryan Holiday — Turning the Tables
#409: Brené Brown — Striving versus Self-Acceptance, Saving Marriages, and More
#407: Sam Zell — Strategies for High-Stakes Investing and Dealmaking
#406: Bob Iger — CEO and Chairman of Disney
#405: Penn Jillette on Magic, Losing 100+ Pounds, and Weaponizing Kindness
#404: Books I’ve Loved — Steve Jurvetson
#403: Tony Fadell — On Building the iPod, iPhone, Nest, and a Life of Curiosity
#402: Books I’ve Loved — Seth Godin and Esther Perel
#401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing
#400: Books I’ve Loved — Tim’s Four Must-Read Books
#399: Adam Grant — The Man Who Does Everything
#398: Peter Attia, M.D. — Fasting, Metformin, Athletic Performance, and More
#397: Mike Maples and Andy Rachleff — Two Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Answer
#396: Marcela Ot’alora — How to Become a Psychedelic Therapist
#394: Q&A with Tim — On Wealth, Legacy, Grief, Lyme Disease, Gratitude, Longevity, and More
#393: Edward Norton — On Creative Process, Creative Struggle, and Motherless Brooklyn
#391: The Random Show — On Fasting, Forest Bathing, How to Say NO, Rebooting the Self, and Much More
#390: Q&A With Tim — On Happiness, Dating, Depressive Episodes, and Much More
#389: Neil deGrasse Tyson — How to Dream Big, Think Scientifically, and Get More Done
#388: Lisa Ling — Exploring Subcultures, Learning to Feel, and Changing Perception
#387: Tristan Harris — Fighting Skynet and Firewalling Attention
#386: Ken Burns — A Master Filmmaker on Creative Process, the Long Game, and the Noumenal
#384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD)
#383: Mike Phillips — How to Save a Species
#382: Safi Bahcall — On Hypnosis, Conquering Insomnia, Incentives, and More
Ed Zschau — The Polymath Professor Who Changed My Life (380#)
#379: Dita Von Teese — The Queen of Burlesque
#378: Nick Norris — Navy SEAL and Athlete on Training, Post-Traumatic Growth, and Healing
#377: Psychedelics — Microdosing, Mind-Enhancing Methods, and More
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Can you please add episode 544!
Hi, Poonam –
Episode #544 was a repost of Episode #214. Please enjoy the transcript of Episode #214, Tim’s interview with Debbie Millman titled “How to Design a Life.”
Best,
Team Tim Ferriss
The transcript for episode #463 is missing. Where can I find it?
Hi Maria,
#463 is a repost of #241: The Relationship Episode: Sex, Love, Polyamory, Marriage, and More (with Esther Perel)
Best,
Team Tim Ferriss
Is there a way to see the timestamp at which some text in the transcript was spoken in the episode audio?
Hi, Adam –
If you go to Tim’s YouTube page and find the video you want, you can click the three dots at the bottom-right of the video and choose to show the transcript. You can then find the passage you want and you’ll see the timestamp inside the YouTube video. Note, however, that timestamps on YouTube don’t always line up with timestamps on the blog, due to different editing for video and audio-only. You can also use the player embedded in the blog post to find the passage you want, but it could take longer. The timestamps in the player on the blog align with the timestamps in the Show Notes, which you can find further down the blog post page.
Team Tim Ferriss
Can you please add episode #656?
Hi, Jieun –
Episode #656 was a rebroadcast of episode #409, the transcript for which you’ll find above.
Best,
Team Tim Ferriss
Hi, Where is 836?
Hi, Dawn –
As episode #836 feature chapters from the audiobook of Tim’s book The 4-Hour Workweek, we don’t publish the transcript of those chapters, since they’re available to read in Tim’s book, available in most bookstores, at online booksellers, and hopefully at your local library.
Best,
Team Tim Ferriss
Good to hear that Peterson is back. I LOVED the fact that he provided some very compelling push back to some of your beliefs/comments. That rarely happens in your interviews, and you dealt with it surprisingly well. Congratulations.
Hi Tim, I would like to learn the tools and tips that you have to transcribe audio to text. Thanks
Tim, thank you for the transcripts–this is great access for people who are deaf/hard of hearing.
Looking for the free site for summarized books mentioned in podcast I believe with Hugh Jackman
I just want to say thank you Tim Ferriss for doing this, I have learned a ton in the short 6 months since I discovered your podcast and the show notes are an amazing resource!
“you will never gather enough of the things you don’t need”
I think it might be a very worthwhile excercise to push the transcript of these podcasts, your books and digitze your enormous amount of notebooks in the context of a big LLM. And make you a twin. Please read thelongcontext article by Steven Johnsen,