The Random Present with Kevin Rose — The $1M Bitcoin Wager, Japanophilia, Uncommon IPAs, Stopping Hangovers, AI Companions, Fringe Discords, Inexpensive Luxuries,

Technologist, serial entrepreneur, world-class investor, self-experimenter, and all-around wild and loopy man Kevin Rose (@KevinRose) rejoins me for an additional episode of The Random Present.

On this one, we focus on inexpensive luxuries for priceless lives, suiting up for a go to to the Magic Fortress, Eliza Ivanova’s artwork, my secret for supple pores and skin, nineteenth-century Nintendo, Balaji’s guess, the science of #hangover cures, Moonbirds over Tokyo, an sudden Sanbo Zen inquisition, Japanese loss of life poems, escape rooms, high-fidelity immersive sound, Nanoblocks, and way more!

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Need to hear the final time Kevin and I let our random flag fly? Take a look at the dialog we had right here through which we mentioned tasty grapes and arduous ketones, Kevin’s concern of flying vs. my concern of heights, the enjoyment of unstuffing, residing wealthy as a substitute of dying wealthy, the ethics and implications of AI-generated artwork, constructing NFT communities for the lengthy haul, meditation retreats, diabetic horse urine, and way more.

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

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

• Heady Topper by The Alchemist | BeerAdvocate
• Pliny The Younger by Russian River Brewing Company | BeerAdvocate
• Pliny The Elder by Russian River Brewing Company | BeerAdvocate
• Award Winning Beers in the Bay Area | Russian River Brewing
• My Beer Collectibles | MBC
• The World’s Leading Online Wristwatch Magazine | Hodinkee
• Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton | LVMH
• LVMH: The Complete History and Strategy | Acquired
• Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas | Amazon
• The Luxury Strategy: Break the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands by Jean-Noël Kapferer and Vincent Bastien | Amazon
• Ross Dress For Less
• GUESS History: Founding, Timeline, and Milestones | Zippia
• Erewhon Market | Los Angeles
• What Does ‘Bougie’ Mean? Does It Come From ‘Bourgeois’? | Quick and Dirty Tips
• The Magic Castle | The Academy of Magical Arts
• Best Suits for Men | Hollywood Suits
• Can Simon Coronel Fool Penn and Teller a Second Time? | YouTube
• Craft Chocolate | Dick Taylor
• The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• Crown Jewels of the Coffee World | Proud Mary Coffee USA
• What is Geisha Coffee? And Why Is It $75 A Cup? | Home Grounds
• What is Bulletproof Coffee? | BBC Good Food
• Formulations for Skin, Hair, & Body | Aesop
• Dr. Bronner’s Pure-Castile Liquid Soap (Baby, Unscented) | Amazon
• ZBiotics Pre-Alcohol Probiotic Drink | Amazon
• The Boozy Underbelly of Saturday Morning Cartoons | Eater
• The Science Behind ZBiotics Probiotic Drink | ZBiotics
• Three Weird Things About Acetaldehyde | CDC Blogs
• Genetically Modified Probiotic? The Controversy in Science and Commerc | BioImmersion Inc.
• Why Fentanyl is a Drug Dealer’s Dream — But a Family’s Nightmare | Narconon
• How to Test Your Drugs Using Fentanyl Test Strips | NYC Health
• Introducing ChatGPT | OpenAI
• Why Software Is Eating the World | Andreessen Horowitz
• Excel Pivot Tables Explained in 10 Minutes | Leila Gharani
• A Fictional World Built for These Chaotic Times | The Legend of CØCKPUNCH
• Funding Cutting-Edge Scientific Research | Saisei Foundation
• Scale, Explore, and Build Humanist Infrastructure | Midjourney
• DALL·E 2 | OpenAI
• Stable Diffusion Public Release | Stability.AI
• Unstable Diffusion
• The Terminator | Prime Video
• Total Recall | Prime Video
• Her | Prime Video
• 9 ChatGPT Prompt Hacks You Need to Know by SM Raiyyan | Medium
• The AI Companion Who Cares | Replika
• Japan’s Shrinking Population Faces Point of No Return | Newsweek
• Children of Men | Prime Video
• Balaji Explains His Bitcoin Bet | ReasonTV
• What’s a Better Buy: Bitcoin or Ethereum? | The Motley Fool
• Kevin Rose’s NFT Wallet with 40 High-Value Collectibles Hacked | CoinDesk
• Scalable, Instant Bitcoin/Blockchain Transactions | Lightning Network
• Layer 1 vs. Layer 2 : What You Need to Know About Different Blockchain Layer Solutions | Medium
• What Is Bitcoin Halving? | Investopedia
• Bitcoin Maximalism | Investopedia
• The New Global Gold Rush | All Things Considered
• Top Crypto App Downloads Rise over 15% Following SVB Collapse | TechCrunch
• Liar’s Poker: RIsing Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis | Amazon
• Three Ways to Write With Your Opposite Hand | wikiHow
• Writing with Non-Dominant Hand Good for Brain Health | Woman’s World
• Dysgraphia | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
• Eleeza: The Art of Eliza Ivanova by Eliza Ivanova | Amazon
• Raw Material by Eliza Ivanova Volume 1 | Amazon
• iPhone Protectors/Privacy Screens | Amazon
• Nintendo History | Nintendo
• Hanafuda: The History and Popularity of the Japanese Flower Card Game | Japanbased
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom | Amazon
• Arcade Archives Pinball for Nintendo Switch | Nintendo
• 25 Words and Phrases That Can’t Be Translated from Japanese | TankenJapan
• The Official PROOF PFP | Moonbirds
• Global Community for Japanese Creators | Rising Birds
• Sanbo Zen Lineage | Mountain Cloud Zen Center
• Zen Grasp Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Unusual and Highly effective World of Koans | The Tim Ferriss Present #560
• Top Tokyo Cafes | Tokyo Coffee
• Koffee Mameya Kakeru | Time Out
• Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death by Yoel Hoffmann | Amazon
• Jisei: The Art of Japanese Death Poems | Tokyo Weekender
• Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku by Natalie Goldberg | Amazon
• #1 Rated Escape Room Los Angeles | The Escape Revolution
• Exploding Kittens NSFW Edition | Amazon
• What Is Immersive Audio? | High Fidelity Blog
• Come By, Say Hi-Fi | Common Wave Hi-Fi
• Bowers & Wilkins PX7 Bluetooth Headphone | Amazon
• Arnold Layne by Pink Floyd (Official Music Video) | YouTube
• Hostess Ho-Hos | Amazon
• Breakthrough Technology for the Brain | Neuralink
• The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson | Amazon
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson | Amazon
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson | Amazon
• The Battle Is On! Nanoblocks vs. LEGO | Nanoblocks US
• Himeji Castle Nanoblock Set Review | Nanoblock US

SHOW NOTES

• [04:44] The vital juice.
• [08:37] Low cost downfalls and luxurious lettuce.
• [13:16] Changing into appropriate for The Magic Fortress.
• [17:12] Inexpensive luxuries for a priceless life.
• [19:47] A pipe dream.
• [22:04] A skincare secret.
• [23:08] Later life courting and alcohol abating (#hangover).
• [31:35] The present and anticipated state of AI.
• [46:15] Balaji’s guess.
• [1:02:00] Kevin practices his ABCs.
• [1:05:17] Eliza Ivanova.
• [1:07:10] TimTimsPrivacyScreens dot com.
• [1:09:38] Nintendo: Hanafuda to Zelda.
• [1:12:52] Untranslatables.
• [1:13:48] Tokyo Moonbirds and Zen karaoke.
• [1:18:10] Japanese Loss of life Poems and different uplifting studying.
• [1:22:44] Some escape rooms are higher than others.
• [1:26:51] Excessive-fidelity immersive sound.
• [1:31:26] A whispering Replika and a vibrating “chest.”
• [1:35:28] Nanoblocks!

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