Breakfast of Champions

This book by Kurt Vonnegut was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Tim Ferriss. It comes up in conversations about addiction & recovery, exercise & strength, longevity & aging. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.From the Trade Paperback edition.

• “Kurt Vonnegut, one of my favorite writers, hilarious cat, Breakfast of Champions, etc. People can pick up any of his books.”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “one of my favorite writers, hilarious cat”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 202600:19:35

  Said during "Tim McGraw, Selling 100M+ Records and 30+ Years of Creative Longevity". The episode features Tim McGraw: Country music superstar with over 106 million records sold worldwide, plus an acting career including 1883 and Land Man; husband of Faith Hill and father of three daughters. Tim McGraw tells Tim Ferriss how songs, surgeries, sobriety, and the father he barely knew shaped a 35-year career.