Episode Transcript: #1108 - Peter Attia
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4, 3, 2, 1. Hello, Peter. Hello, Joe. What's going on, man?
A whole lot. You were just telling me something that is
one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard, that you swam from Maui to Linais.
Right. And you're the one of the only humans ever
do that. I am told I was the first person to swim from
Maui to Linais and back. The one way is a pretty famous swim race that's done every
year. You're the first person to do it and go back.
Fuck, dude. Why'd you do that? How long you got?
It started when I was a boy. They told me I couldn't do it. What made you want to do
that? That's a ridiculous proposition. So I got into... I decided in... This is going
to sound silly. I read a book in January of 2004 about this woman named Penny Dean who,
until this day, holds the record for the fastest crossing of the Catalina Channel.
So it was swimming from Catalina Island to San Pedro, or you typically swim to Point
Vicente. And she had done it in like seven hours and 20 minutes. I was like, that's amazing.
How far is that? As a crow flies, it's 21 miles. With the
currents, it's a little longer. And I was like, I really want to do this, but I got
to learn how to swim first. That's three miles an hour swimming.
She is a phenom. Penny Dean had a stroke rate of 90 strokes per minute, which I mean,
that might not mean anything to someone who doesn't swim, but like to turn... To have
a hand hit the water every, you know, two thirds of a second is a remarkable thing.