#812: The Random Show — New Health Gadgets, Tim’s Latest Adventures, How to Drink Less, Zen Retreats, AI + Your Genome, and Colonoscopy Confessions

Welcome to another wide-ranging "Random Show" episode I
recorded with my close friend Kevin
Rose (digg.com)! We cover dozens of
topics: from the cutting edge of health tech to pro-tips for
colonoscopies; AI; adventures in Japan and Taiwan seeking out
perfect coffee and tea; tips for drinking less alcohol; powerful
documentaries like 32 Sounds and books such as Awareness; the
unexpected joys and therapeutic benefits of adult Lego; and much,
much more.


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Timestamps:


[00:00:00] Start.


[00:05:13] Two old men discuss the importance of regular medical
checkups.


[00:11:47] Zen and the art of 32 Sounds.


[00:14:50] Going with the low-poly Flow.


[00:18:02] KevKev goes cleanclean and sober.


[00:25:10] The first rule of AA is you do not talk about AA.


[00:26:24] LEGO bricks (and Nanoblocks) as art for grown-ups.


[00:28:27] Maintaining sobriety with a partner who still drinks.


[00:31:47] Addressing under-the-hood reasons behind addiction
with a group.


[00:35:41] TimTim talks Taiwan and tea.


[00:43:13] A Japanese coffee bender.


[00:48:56] An "expresso" intervention.


[00:50:02] Where Americans can get Taiwanese tea if they can't
make the trip.


[00:51:16] Kevin's new WHOOP wearable and quantifying health
benchmarks/goals.


[00:57:45] I'm getting a new exercise bike because the old one
rubbed me the wrong way.


[00:59:11] Kevin keeps COVID and cooties at bay with Profi in his
schnozz.


[01:02:01] Sippin' dashi and conquering anxiety with Awareness.


[01:06:36] Getting a (Versa) Gripp on eclectic injuries.


[01:10:07] Finding magic in the ordinary with Paul Madonna and
Hayao Miyazaki.


[01:13:19] The Well of Being is back in stock for a reasonable
price.


[01:14:02] Finding Asian artisanal goods in the US without having
to travel.


[01:16:49] Squirrels: distracting dogs and humans for millennia.


[01:18:04] My personal ups and downs with accelerated TMS.


[01:28:27] The current state of consumer-level sleep aid
technology.


[01:33:47] How full genome sequencing helped Kevin tame a
once-insurmountable health issue.


[01:36:16] Eyeing traffic at the intersection of AI and life
sciences.


[01:38:30] Genetic data privacy concerns.


[01:42:36] Face to face with my deepfaked side hustler.


[01:44:06] Kevin's unsettling AI headphone review experiment and
its implications for real humans.


[01:47:03] Steps Kevin has taken toward proving he's a real boy.


[01:48:23] "You were talking to models — you were just talking to
large language models."


[01:50:25] Exploding Kittens and I made a game together: Coyote.


[01:52:06] When meditation retreats go right (and wrong).


[01:59:21] Parting thoughts.


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Past guests on The Tim Ferriss
Show include Jerry Seinfeld, Hugh
Jackman, Dr. Jane Goodall, LeBron James, Kevin
Hart, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jamie Foxx, Matthew
McConaughey, Esther Perel, Elizabeth
Gilbert, Terry Crews, Sia, Yuval Noah
Harari, Malcolm Gladwell, Madeleine
Albright, Cheryl Strayed, Jim Collins, Mary
Karr, Maria Popova, Sam Harris, Michael
Phelps, Bob Iger, Edward Norton, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Neil Strauss, Ken Burns, Maria
Sharapova, Marc Andreessen, Neil Gaiman, Neil de
Grasse Tyson, Jocko Willink, Daniel Ek, Kelly
Slater, Dr. Peter Attia, Seth Godin, Howard
Marks, Dr. Brené Brown, Eric Schmidt, Michael
Lewis, Joe Gebbia, Michael Pollan, Dr. Jordan
Peterson, Vince Vaughn, Brian Koppelman, Ramit
Sethi, Dax Shepard, Tony Robbins, Jim
Dethmer, Dan Harris, Ray Dalio, Naval
Ravikant, Vitalik Buterin, Elizabeth
Lesser, Amanda Palmer, Katie Haun, Sir Richard
Branson, Chuck Palahniuk, Arianna Huffington, Reid
Hoffman, Bill Burr, Whitney Cummings, Rick
Rubin, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Darren
Aronofsky, Margaret Atwood, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter
Thiel, Dr. Gabor Maté, Anne Lamott, Sarah
Silverman, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and many more.


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