The 4 Hour Wine Tasting

The 4 Hour Wine Tasting – Episode #665

April 27, 2009

Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week, tastes 3 Malbecs with Gary Vaynerchuk.

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2007 Bodegas Goulart Malbec ClassicArgentine Malbec
2005 Chateau Du Cedre Cahors HeritageCahors
2006 Lagarde Malbec Single VineyardArgentine Malbec

Links mentioned in today’s episode.

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April 28, 2009

Don
Fantastic episode!!! Tim was a great guest and your interaction with the bee was hilarious. Solid start to the week.

QOTD: Thought provoking question…
April 28, 2009

Alpesh
QOTD : If retirement were out of the picture I would focus on helping others and developing schools in India for children in rural villages.
April 28, 2009

Robert Howells
If retirement was taken out of the equation I would have to think really hard about things.Working at the same job for 22 years you sort of become a zombie and cruise on auto pilot. I would love to work with Gary and AJ @ VaynerMedia because I would pour my soul into every project.
April 27, 2009

TheAndySan
When I first read The 4-Hour Workweek, I was working at Wal-Mart as a cashier. I hated that job so much! A couple of days later, I decided to buy the book on my break and I walked out. Ever since that happened, I haven’t seen a single copy of the book in that Wal-Mart since.

I tried blogging for a living, and while I manage to make money from it (about $25 a month), it’s not enough to stop working a regular job. I was incredibly foolish to quit Wal-Mart so suddenly.

I did get a job in Februaryas a tech support guy, but I was released a month into it because I wasn’t “catching on”. I thought I was beginning to get into the groove of things, but not according to my supervisors.

Right now, I’m unemployed and I need to find a job soon before I run out of money. I’m looking to move into the slightly bigger city of Bowling Green Ohio in July-August, but I have no money and no job. Things are looking grim, but I’m sure I’ll be able to find some kind of work.

QOTD – This could just be my age talking (I’m 23 but lots of people think I’m 16-18), but I never had retirement in mind. “If you do what you love, then you’ll never work a day in your life” is my motto. My version of retirement is being able to make a living doing what I love and no longer requiring a job for income.

Until that day, I’ll have to work a regular job in order to earn enough money to live. I’m fine with that, so long as I continue to work on my passion during that time and remember that I won’t be working in a regular job forever.

Sorry this comment is super-long, I just had some things to get off my chest.
April 27, 2009

Patrick Carter
What a great review of 3 Malbecs. I too am a Malbec fan and I added a great deal to my wine vocabulary tonight from Gary’s descriptions. It can daunting to translate flavors into words but Gary does a phenomenal job at describing what the rest of us can only taste. Love Tim’s question and if you remove “Retirement” entirely from the “Life Equation” then we will all be forced to choose professions that we absolutely love instead of a mundane job that we suffer through until retirement.
April 27, 2009

Steak Monster
Gary, your face was so funny when that bee came strolling in. Time turned back to child GV in a second.

QoTD: I would probably choose the 4hr work week for my eternal career. Although drinking wine every day wouldn’t be too bad either.
April 27, 2009

jwink
What’s up with the Honey Oat Cheerios bee flying around? LOL trying to get it with the bio-dynamic book.

Good oak monster discussion.

QOTD: I would probably take more vacations in regular intervals and longer (the light bulb just went off). Just worrying about the hustle now so I can “retire” sooner….and in reality I would never retire it would drive me nuts doing nothing.
April 27, 2009

KAHUNA
All this talk about retirement- Some people actually retire so they can spend some time with their family. Imagine that, it is not all about hating what you do for a living.

Hopefully Gary will slow down a little when his baby is born because missing the first time your kid rolls over, shats the carpet, laughs for no reason, pisses like a fountain when being changed(of course if GV can put the stem on the apple), eats your canolli, runs off with your parmesian cheese, and points to your hot neighbor and says boobies in front of the wife! those memories are worth more than any cash derived from cursing at a bunch of web 2.0ers.

I thought Tim did a good job on the show. I have to say at first I thought Gary had Woody Harrelson on when I saw the preview image.
April 27, 2009

Yeon
Hey Tim! Love your book!!!! I am working on a number of “muses.” My client lead me on to this site and interesting to find you on here. There is a great forum on aSmallworld.net and love to invite you on to it. I have a nice forum post going on in there about outsourcing my life.

Yeon
April 27, 2009

David T (@ONUMello)
Good guest, he reminds me of one of my good friends. Mott’s still got to tape even if he retires!

Was there some kind of a cut at 8:11? Something skipped or was edited, I didn’t think that happened on WLTV!

QOTD: I’m about to graduate college going into a field that I love- ask me again in 30-35 years, but why would someone want to stop doing something they love and are passionate about?
April 27, 2009

KAHUNA
QOTD: I would write a book called the 3 hour work week and do a video called 7 minute abs
April 27, 2009

KAHUNA
Gary Gump the ping pong player
April 27, 2009

KAHUNA
Garys nexts 10 books are 1 wine additions to the original book
April 27, 2009

KAHUNA
If you want Longevity then dont date Gary they call him 2minutevaynerchuck
April 27, 2009

Scott from Salt Lake
People retire because they don’t do what they love and they don’t love what they do.

Thank you for the 4HWW Tim, it changed my life. While I haven’t automated my business yet, I applied your principals to hack it and make it easier to manage based on the 80/20 rule.
April 27, 2009

KAHUNA
Gary has a chubby! Maybe that is the little thing he was going to announce in the forum! But little red riding Gary might be to scared to come back to the forest.
April 27, 2009

KAHUNA
Tim eat more bacon the Nitrates counter act the effects of Cabernet Sauv. I eat like a pound a dayand havent had a hang over in years! of course no blood gets to my brain due to the pin hole opening in my arties but no hang over
April 27, 2009

KAHUNA
Fruity from start to finish! That could be the title of Gary’s next book!
April 27, 2009

KAHUNA
That bee has a better arm the Jets draft pick
April 27, 2009

KAHUNA
Did tim just say he likes the Big Fruit? Was he talking about Gary or the wine?
April 27, 2009

thirstygreek
@tferris! GV pumped you had him on this guy seems like a solid guy I have read his book and it offers some great advice. Funny Malbecs were the topic they are def getting hot, up here I was at a restaurant where 2 out of the four wine specials were Malbec…either way great show and QOTD: I never think about retirement, I have that businessmen’s spirit I will always be working on something.

tg
April 27, 2009

KAHUNA
MOTT kill the bee it has the SWINE FLU!!
April 27, 2009

Miko
Great guest, Gary!

QOTD: I’m only 23, and I am still trying to find a work/field that I’m really passionate about. I think you’d agree, once you find your passion, retirement is something you could live without. My thought is that most older people answering this QOTD would say that if retirement wasn’t an option in the end, they would try harder (and maybe risk more) to find a work/life that they LOVE in the present. That said, I think a lot of people discover new passions during retirement, which is awesome – perhaps life is a journey of accumulating passions?

BTW, had an amazing time on the Thundercruise, I’ve been raving to everyone and I can’t wait for next year’s!
April 27, 2009

amgryger
QOTD: As an architect/designer, I am already doing what I love and my career is centered on making beautiful things. I don’t need to retire from that.
April 27, 2009

Matt
I plan on retiring from my career, taking the pension, if they still exist then, and finding another job.

I think this is the most bromance I have ever seen on the Thunder Show. I was sort of anticipating a kiss at the end.