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)

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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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#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







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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 .


#645: The Random Show, Mega-Holiday Edition — 2023 Resolutions and New Tools, Extensive Bullshitting, Booze and Ethanol Alternatives, The “Yearly Delete,” A Million Sidebars, Ayahuasca Revisited, Recapping the COCKPUNCH Saga, and Much More



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



SCROLL BELOW FOR LINKS AND SHOW NOTES…







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 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!




PEOPLE MENTIONED




Simon Coronel



Peter Attia



Darya Rose



Scarlett Johansson



Marc Andreessen



Taylor Swift



Arnold Schwarzenegger



Balaji Srinivasan



Michael Lewis



Jim Cramer



Eliza Ivanova



Princess Zelda



Henry Shukman



Ryoun Yamada



Elan Lee



Adam Gazzaley



Neal Stephenson

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