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 (#670)

Technologist, serial entrepreneur, world-class investor, self-experimenter, and all-around wild and crazy guy Kevin Rose (@KevinRose) rejoins me for another episode of The Random Show.

In this one, we discuss 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!

Please enjoy!

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Want to hear the last time Kevin and I let our random flag fly? Check out the conversation we had here in which we discussed tasty grapes and hard ketones, Kevin’s fear of flying vs. my fear of heights, the joy of unstuffing, living rich instead of dying rich, the ethics and implications of AI-generated art, building NFT communities for the long haul, meditation retreats, diabetic horse urine, 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

• 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{1652eb1ffa4184925f6a63a9c04ea6b421acb7a78117241e7d4325cdca8339fa} 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 Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans | The Tim Ferriss Show #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 important juice.
• [08:37] Discount downfalls and luxury lettuce.
• [13:16] Becoming suitable for The Magic Castle.
• [17:12] Affordable luxuries for a priceless life.
• [19:47] A pipe dream.
• [22:04] A skincare secret.
• [23:08] Later life dating and alcohol abating (#hangover).
• [31:35] The current and anticipated state of AI.
• [46:15] Balaji’s bet.
• [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 Death Poems and other uplifting reading.
• [1:22:44] Some escape rooms are better than others.
• [1:26:51] High-fidelity immersive sound.
• [1:31:26] A whispering Replika and a vibrating “chest.”
• [1:35:28] Nanoblocks!

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