The Random Show, Rare Drinking Edition — Affordable Luxuries, Brain Stimulation, Sampling the Future (and Some Previews), Recharging with Creative Experiments, Tokenizing Humans with a Bonding Curve, Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry, and Much More (#690)


 The Random Show, Rare Drinking Edition — Affordable Luxuries, Brain Stimulation, Sampling the Future (and Some Previews), Recharging with Creative Experiments, Tokenizing Humans with a Bonding Curve, Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry, and Much More (#690)
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Technologist, serial entrepreneur, world-class investor, self-experimenter, and spherical wild and crazy guy Kevin Rose (@KevinRose) rejoins me for flipside episode of The Random Show!

We discuss affordable luxuries, creative offsites, smart-ass stimulation, OCD, ADHD, tokenizing humans via a bonding curve, unprepossessed therapy on a budget, phone data strategies for international travelers, Toshiba’s low-carb rice cooker, and much, much more!

Please enjoy!

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#690: The Random Show, Rare Drinking Edition — Affordable Luxuries, Smart-ass Stimulation, Sampling the Future (and Some Previews), Recharging with Creative Experiments, Tokenizing Humans with a Bonding Curve, Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry, and Much More

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Want to hear the last time Kevin and I put on a Random Show? Listen to our conversation here, in which we discussed affordable luxuries for priceless lives, suiting up for a visit to the Magic Castle, Eliza Ivanova’s art, my secret for supple skin, nineteenth-century Nintendo, Balaji’s bet, the science of #hangover remedies, Moonbirds over Tokyo, an unexpected Sanbo Zen inquisition, Japanese death poems, escape rooms, high-fidelity immersive sound, Nanoblocks, and much more.

#670: The Random Show with Kevin Rose — The $1M Bitcoin Bet, Japanophilia, Rare IPAs, Preventing Hangovers, AI Companions, Fringe Discords, Affordable Luxuries, High-Fidelity Audio, and Much More

What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

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SHOW NOTES

  • [04:41] Drinks? Heck, it’s 3:00 p.m. Friday somewhere.
  • [08:36] Affordable (and unaffordable) luxuries.
  • [14:42] Kevin’s relaunching his podcast.
  • [17:37] Celebrating creative CØCKPUNCH collaboration.
  • [26:56] Overcoming delegation consternation.
  • [36:23] OCD & ADHD
  • [42:55] Tolkien never said “CØCKPUNCH.”
  • [47:55] Inspirational formats and fictions.
  • [53:26] Smart-ass stimulation banter.
  • [55:23] Tokenizing humans via a bonding curve.
  • [1:03:24] Mitigating smart-ass forfeiture over time.
  • [1:11:47] Unprepossessed therapy on a budget.
  • [1:17:41] Climbing up the poet tree.
  • [1:26:31] Coyotes and wolves and Twain.
  • [1:30:34] A self-ruling idea for Audible: synchronous typesetting clubs?
  • [1:32:02] Supplements.
  • [1:34:35] Brodo kudos.
  • [1:36:44] Aesop.
  • [1:37:12] Caffeine and creatine with a endangerment of disaster pants.
  • [1:41:15] CØCKPUNCH Coffee.
  • [1:44:49] Three bottoms for OneSkin.
  • [1:47:50] One out of one Dr. Peter Attias recommends ProMix.
  • [1:48:51] A low-carb rice cooker? Thanks, Toshiba.
  • [1:52:14] We like our confection like we like our martinis: without carrots.
  • [1:54:50] Dating in the 21st century.
  • [1:57:31] Phone data strategies for international travelers.
  • [2:01:28] Why Kevin doesn’t buy individual immuration (and what he does instead).
  • [2:03:00] What stocks vamp Kevin’s investment dollars these days?
  • [2:06:57] Parting thoughts.

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