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Hello boys and girls ladies and germs. This is stuff. I got there was a camera. This is Tim Ferriss and welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show. We have yet again. The random show. Yes. Kev, Kev rose, rose, Kevin Rose. Thank you for having me. Tim. It's good to be here. It's good to be here in your home. We're in a home. We have our matching many scooters we do. We also have a miniature kitchen set behind us. We were making pinto beans and Homestyle ice cream. Yeah. You may or may not be able to see that their favorite topping for
pinto beans and by then he means his progeny. I have a couple little ones that hopefully will not be making an appearance and has gone to bed but we shall see. We
already had them because on the Run.
Well, jailbreak who came flying through. So Kevin before, recording, actually while recording, you said, this is the important juice but that was off mic. So I relayed it into the Mike what is this important juice that we have before us? So I mean, we've been doing these shows for a very long time so we've always will not always we've highlighted
Of our favorite drinks over the years and one of the things that comes into my possession about once a year is a limited edition run. You know, it's expensive, when it's in passive sentence, Market comes into my possession, that's right, it sounds very fancy. It's just a beer people. So one of the things that I like to do and we've talked about this before at some point, but unlike wine, the cool thing about beer is you can buy the best beer in the world. Like the number one ranked beer and it's gonna cost you $100. That's not the case of the blind.
Lee. So in terms of different styles of beer, it's typically not ipas that win the number one slot on that. It's some of the heavier stuff but on the IPA front, the second highest ranked, IPA by Beer Advocate. And I would argue the harder to find version of the ipas because the number one ranked IPA is called heady topper and it is in production around this particular beer by Russian River. Brewing is called Pliny the Younger. Now, you may have heard a plan
The Elder which is you typically find at Whole Foods and things like that. The younger is a limited edition were on that they do once a year and used to have to go to Russian River Brewing, to actually consume it. And just recently, probably it's a three or four years ago, is start putting it in bottles. So this is it in Bottle form. I would argue that this is probably the most sought after I pee in the world. It is 75 dollars a bottle so it's not cheap. It is a 16 ounce bottle though. So per ounce. Now
It was one pint. You won't buy it. So it's it's expensive juice, but it is quite good and I want to share it with you. Thank you. And I also want to tell people out there how to find the rarest beers in the world, let's do it. I may have mentioned this at one crazy long ago, random show but there is a place that I go to called my beer. Collectibles.com this is an ad. I have nothing to do with them. I die every time I did mention any
Euro, you don't think I could Kev Kev 23.
Exactly. Make sure you get my
Represent. But one of the things that this is, I'm probably gonna get them arrested, but one of the things that is very difficult to do is to sell alcohol in line, and so, on the beer front, if you say, and this is true, if you were to drink this bottle, you can sell the bottle by itself for, let's just say, five dollars or whatever. Be it may be because the bottle is just collectible and its own, right? And so, what they claim is, that, everything you're buying is a collectible. And so you're not actually buying the beer and so it's a peer-to-peer Marketplace.
Yeah. And so they have people that go and buy that I've been using them for several years. Now, they are going to have the best month of
sales. Before they get shut
down, it's gonna be really Blaze of Glory. They've been okay, they've been okay. And I always find really good sellers on there and you see on the side of this that says, you know, not packaged for resale. So you have to know somebody to get this and yeah, I love a good IPA and I would say this is up there. This is pretty pretty good stuff. So, you know, the wine world, you know, probably something about the Beer World. You also know the
High-end I'm not even call them watches, God forbid, timepiece World, sure, very well. How much of the fame that comes from being sought? After is derived from the quality of the product versus the scarcity versus the positioning. If there is such a thing marketing other factors. Yeah, I've become really interested in this question and there's actually spectacular episode. I haven't listened to it yet on lvmh and the building of that, right from
Um, it's very meager Beginnings. To it's insane current state and the there's a book called How luxury lost its luster. So a lot of alliteration which I read a long time ago, I do find the study of sort of scarcity. Yes and high-end products, very interest. Have you read the book, the luxury strategy, the luxury of strata is luxury strategy. The luxury stretch of cycle luxurious strategy. It seems like a necessity. No, I haven't. It's actually another really good one. It talks about just brand positioning and just how to set yourself.
La Paz really sought after. Yeah, Premier brand. And some of the mistakes that Brands make where they go down market and they become a commoditized, kind of like Ross Dress for Less. It's part of the reason why the fashion industry goes and Destroy. So many clothes, they have leftover close. They could go and sell them. What happened to Guess, jeans, or any of these other brands? Where they said, hey, we have this extra inventory. Let's discounted, let's do outlet stores, right? Let's do you know these, these discounting stores and again ones. Then rang at anchored in the midmark. Exactly. And then,
Back up, right? Once you go down you can't, you can't regain that one jar and there's so many ways different ways to differentiate as one example we're in l.a. right now and I'd never been to Erewhon. So for people who don't know, Erewhon is a very famous, very expensive. It's not expensive. This is well water. Let me paint a picture. I went in and I went to their hot meal cafeteria line and I got a couple of boxes. I mean, it's two meals, maybe two and a half meals for me.
And as I got a kombucha to and, you know, maybe a water and I think that was about it, there wasn't much more to it and it was $147. I wanted to go there just for the spectacle because I mean there's a dating scene there is, there's this dating scene. It's yeah, the point I was going to make is I was having a conversation with someone and I told them the story and they said, wow, that's insane.
I imagine if you took the same inventory, you could sell it for twenty percent less and do really well and I said you could, but if are one lowered their prices, they would be dead. I think because part of the Allure part of the story, part of the word of mouth is how expensive it is. Yeah I mean it's that but also we could get into are we look? They have other stuff. That is I'm sure of incredibly high quality and I yeah, I respect that also. But it is become the reason I hear
About are long in a place like Austin or other places in the country is highly exclusive. Very expensive. Yeah. And I'm not saying that as a knock. Well, I think it's what we've seen. Well just talking about grocery stores in this isn't that most that interesting about topic but but this maps to a bunch of other things, and I'll for sure. But like I think when you see Whole Foods get bought by Amazon and it becomes this kind of mass scaled Enterprise, although it was, you could argue beforehand when you go in there, it's not the level of quality.
Was a decade ago. It's just not. It's been degraded and like this is. Now that next new level, I would say that when you go into, are want, it doesn't feel bougie though, it doesn't feel like crazy, like just luxury for luxury sake. Is that what you mean by bougie? Because that word it gets, I've heard bougie said more times than I can count since I got to La about a week. I think it's just kind of like the one thing I've only been in l.a. a few months and the one thing that I love about it actually is that it's a Choose Your Own Adventure so you can go is crazy. High end, is he?
You want to wear it? However, you define that or you can find an awesome little Dive Bar where the great cocktail, right? And so, I actually like that and like, for me, I tend to float somewhere in the middle. Don't get me wrong. I like a nice awesome steak at a great killer steak house with which they have a lot of those out here. Yeah. But at the same time it's different than Portland. Like Portland we didn't have the high end, we had a lot of the middle. So arowana is very small. It's a very small group, super small, I was actually expecting it to be much larger. Yeah, so I go there and I've been there since
And it is high-quality. The food is a quality I think the name is also from getting this, right? An anagram of nowhere for people who may be wondering than interesting, the experience that I had actually yesterday, brought a lot of this to top of mind for me and my experience yesterday was going to this place called The Magic Castle for the second time. So, you went, I did and for those who don't know about the Magic Castle, I'm not going to do it justice but it is
The mecca of magic in the sense that people from all over the world. The kids who become obsessed with magic sleight of hand illusion at cetera? The one place. If they've heard of it, that everyone wants to go is the Magic Castle and anyone who's anyone more or less in that world blows through the doors. Probably, once a year, did you dress up you have to
dress you up this time. He's going to have to wear a suit
and tie not
I suit and tie. I did not come here with a student I nor did I come here with dress shoes? So a friend of mine who is visiting, who also didn't have any of the fancy clothes because the opportunity to go came up very last minute. Men's Wearhouse, we went to Hollywood Suits on Hollywood, Boulevard. Added know we couldn't rent so we bought suits but here's the thing, from the moment we walked in and I know these are quality problems, the fact that you can buy a suit that you never intend to wear again is kind of insane, but I knew that it would cost close to.
To the same to rent and that we didn't have time to write because literally, we found out that we had the opportunity to go to this amazing show. It's a very small show than incredible magician who I'll mention here because the show is absolutely spectacular than I'll rewind. So I'm going to get his name. Probably pronounced wrong but Simon Coronel cor o NE L people. If you don't know this name, you are going to know this name. This guy put on one of the best shows I've ever seen young person or ya zi young. I mean I don't know exactly all Diaz maybe is my age so I'll call that young. Yeah.
The older, I get the younger, I think my current ages, but we went to Hollywood Suits. We had literally I want to say 90 minutes and we walked in not, we don't even have nightmares be an hour. We walked in, we just said here are sizes where your suits went over, grabbed, whatever looked reasonably, good off the rag hate that would they still itchy? I hate the, hold on, so we get then it's like what? Size your neck shirt. Boom, the guy like throws it on topics. It's sort of a rack and stack high-volume spot.
And then it's like shoes belt. This. Then the other thing, and we walked out the door with everything for between 150 and 200 dollars a suit that's insane. It's awesome. Yeah. So then they can't do the hemming there. So you have to go like go down this alley around the corner and you think you might be murdered? But no, you find somebody. Who's in this cute little staple room, though. I've done that but you could staple it. We didn't have stapler. So you know, we're we have to like call an Uber and in 30 minutes to get to this place and we get everything done. Literally, we walk in
Door. And then 45 minutes later we're in our suits and we go to the Magic Castle and my friend, and I both have I don't have a lot of Suits, right? But I have one or two nice suits for weddings and things like that. They're not cheap and they're fitted in this. Then the other thing and both of us looked at the suits and I okay these are not the best suits in the world but they are surprisingly fitting and surprisingly good. I got a compliment on my suit while I was there.
And it raises questions. Okay. This was a hundred and fifty two hundred dollars.
What differentiates? And yes, they're better materials. Yes, there's better fitting but then you're waiting like five months for alterations or whatever when you get into the super fancy class and you're okay. Okay. That's not about entirely quality that's about the story of the weight. That's about being able to tell your friends. The process you went through to get the thing right which is not to diminish its value. It's just to say it's really interesting that such a high percentage of the total cost could be placed on that. So I think about these things.
You think you're going to get into any other high-end stuff, although I want to back up to your comment that to get the equivalent in terms of grade for wine. Yeah, would just be impossibly cost prohibitive. You're just going to pay out the nose and take out a second mortgage. So affordable luxurious right? In terms of affordable luxury, is anything else that you enjoy that you sort of put in the same class for me? One would be chocolate. Mmm, you can get
When the bomb would consider. Yeah, the best chocolate in the world. And if you're willing to spend even 20 bucks, what's your go-to 50? I liked a lot. I used to be, I want to hear yours. I haven't been in this world for a long time, but about 10 years ago, I really got into it. This is when I was actually, I guess a little bit earlier, maybe 11, 12 years when I was working on the 4-Hour Chef. I got into this and looked at it very seriously coffee, and you can really get incredible coffee. If you're willing to pay up just a little bit. Yeah, absolutely. They have the,
Coffee is one that I do pay up for, or a subscription, which is their single origin high-end coffee from a roaster called Proud, Mary, mmm. And they're based in Australia, but they have a location in Portland Oregon as well. And so they have a varietal of coffee called a geisha coffee. Have you wish you have you ever had it before? No. So it is just like the most delicate. Awesome. Floral, beautiful, elegant coffee. You can consume. Where is when you make it?
Properly. I do the whole measuring myself, you know, 32 grams of coffee 350, mL of our grams of water and it doing it via pour over. And when you do it you don't need to add anything. No sugar, no, but no complaint
was think of the old, the old days. They'll do our jobs.
Remember when we did the cars coffee. Exactly. So until I started getting my cardiac markers measured regular. Like god, dude, I used to do. Bulletproof Coffee is all the time, right? Add MCT oil.
Oil and butter. And then just you basically drink that coffee and about a half hour later disaster.
Pennies just shit. Your
why did we ever do that? Then I got my numbers back from a TIA and it's like freaking, like cholesterol is all jacked up all over the place and give an IV bag full of triglycerides. Yeah, exactly what's Happening Here. You've nailed. I think chocolate coffee is another one coffee something. I, you know, I do a cup every day, so that's great.
He's in the same camp you can get really nice high-end teas that are amazing for you know under $50 you know this is going to be Maybe funny coming right after talking about health stuff and metrics but I think when I get quite a bit older maybe I'm like okay I'm on the tail end here. I think I might take up pipe smoking. Know my dad used to smoke a pile of just the, it looks so relaxed, but not inhale and the smell of pipe tobacco. Yes. His so
So incredible, dude. I think I just want to be like a cantankerous old guy in a rocking chair on a porch, smoking my pipe, some my book. I don't know, Dad. I mean, maybe I wouldn't inhale, I guess you're supposed to just bring it to your mouth and then like puff away at it. I don't know, I don't smoke, but I think most people would inhale. So I used to go into the old. I used to have these old tobacco shops, he could go into, or they sell raw tobacco. And I used to go with my dad and that's the good childhood memories at the smell is so amazing right away. Yeah, it's really, really, really phenomenal. So what else would fit
And actually people should also just ping us on Twitter and let us know if we're missing a category because I enjoy thinking about affordable luxuries that most people could bring into their lives so they can carve out a small piece of time. Small amount of cash to really feel like they are treating themselves to something that is amazing. And they're just certain categories were that's not possible because of how much demand there is and therefore how high
The prices can escalate and there's a bunch of stuff. I mean, for me, there's little tiny micro upgrades that you do around your household when you think about this stuff and there's I live near a convenience store and I'd run out of body soap and I went across the street and I bought some Dove body soap and was like Cedar something I'm like that sounds okay whatever and I got there by the time I got home I flipped over the back of the label and it was a bunch of artificial stuff in there. Like it wasn't all his peers that outside. It said it was on the front and I put it on and
Was like a perfume bomb. It was like so nasty and I was like, why did I do this? And you go out and yes, you spend 25 $30 more, and you get something from ESOP or a similar brand and it's just amazing. Speaking of those little luxuries, and I know that's like, probably up on the labor side of luxuries, but I don't know. I like little things like that, like, little tiny micro-upgrades around the house, you know, I have a very simple rule when it comes to soap and shampoo your my dating life, though. You need to have a graded show.
Oi. Well let me pause. I'll come we can come back to that if we want to.
I know you want to
but I actually get complimented on my skin. A lot like people are like what do you use for this? This thing I can, it's beautiful. Yeah you know it's lucious, it's great, its luscious very simple Supple moist
okay.
And all I use I have four years. Only use dr. Bronner's
So basically unscented baby. So yeah I'm getting a thumbs-up from your wife. That stuff is so simple. I never feel like I have dry skin. I'm bald so makes it easy right? It's kind of one tool for all things and there you have, it's not exactly a luxury. But I'm just saying, it's great. Do I use that to actually, it's great stuff and you can buy them at like gigantic sizes, they lost long time. Yeah, I'm so that's my comment on personal hygiene and soap, so dating life, you know, we don't have to get into
that.
Well, when he questions and I, you know, I was just curious, like we haven't talked about this in great detail, but I'm curious like, how do you do you change your house talking about the upgrades you have to like, create a cozy, change my house. Well, first of all, I'm, you know, I'm paranoid and crazy about Safety and Security stuff. So generally, I mean, first meetings are always out somewhere public and for anyone who is currently in The Fray of dating apps, they know that it is by and large just terrible, it's so bad.
And I've found it interesting. What I would say is if you're in a relationship and you're like, wow this is hard, this is this, this is that. And you know just be so much easier if I were single and I'd be having all the fun in the world and it's like you're just trading a different set of problems. Now, that's not to complain about it, but I don't think this is subjects going to go anywhere. We got this. No, we don't, we don't, we don't have to, I'm just curious, but I have you changed anything in terms of like your workout regimens or anything like that to get back into fighting shape?
Yes. I mean I have been training. I mean, my trains pretty consistent, I would say that one of the bigger challenges about dating is that I do not recover, actually, this ties into something, I don't recover from alcohol, nearly as well as I used to. And the fact of the matter is generally, if you're going out, people are going to want to have a drink or it's just going to be social to have a drink or two, nothing crazy. I have no interest in that, but even two glasses of wine can completely obliterate. My sleep. So,
so the jury is out on what I'm going to bring up, but there is
This product, which I think you have tried. Now, I have not tried it. This was introduced to me by a friend who swears by it. And said he was about to stop drinking, which might have been a good thing, but he didn't because he started using this product called Z. Biotics Z, biotics is pre alcohol, probiotic drink. And they're these keep hiccupping, like the stork from what Saturday morning. Cartoons after my like, five sips of beer were mirrors,
All right, so 12 bottles of this and the basic selling point is that you are consuming a Prebiotic and I'm going to bring up the exact prebiotics. I would love to get some scientific input from people who can assess this, or who have tried it. Here is the selling point in the pamphlet. So the world's first genetically engineered probiotic, I mean, first world's first is always a strong statement, so I'd be curious to hear if anybody can verify but built by PhD microbiologist. See, biotics is the only product that actively
It's down, acetaldehyde know, I added an a I knew I was going to do it. Daria acetaldehyde. I'm just saying, really quickly acetaldehyde as intelligent of these. Why were talking any case means when you drink booze, it is intended to help you metabolize or neutralize least, some of the things that will cause you to feel terrible. So, this is back to the pamphlet. We started with a natural probiotic which humans have been eating for centuries, and then we altered its DNA to produce an enzyme that breaks down the aforementioned word,
That I shall not. Repeat this enzyme is just like the one your liver uses, but our Prebiotic is designed to deliver it to your gut, a place, where your liver can access and where you need it. Most, so that last paragraph is where I'd love to have people help me understand if there's any credible science to back this up, I want on PubMed. I looked at some of the studies related to the actual strain of probiotic, which is a
sillas. So either suttill lesueur
subtilis. So it's either bacillus subtilis or
Alice and that is spelled BAC. I ll u.s. space. S UB T. I ll is ZB 183. The reason I mention that is when I looked it up, the study seemed to show that it could mitigate some liver damage with excessive alcohol consumption and so on but I didn't see much on the gut. Most of the studies seem to be in different strains of animals and insects like silkworms of all things. I think we're included.
So who knows how that transfers. So would love to know, what people think, what is your buddy? Say? This is like preventing hangover. You said that this is completely changed his life from the perspective of one way like is he awake and wakes up without the type of hangover and costs that have come with drinking. Prior it's like credit cards. He hasn't been charged as much. It's so other people might bring up some like activated charcoal. I would be curious to hear. If you found anything helpful, you have more mileage and I do with drinking booze,
wait,
I love this episode. You're
like, hey, you like your fancy rich
shit like time is some Muslim, the stuff. I was commoners. Can use my first kids
started dude. You've you do more with shit than I do. So what
are you gonna get? Kinda got that don't get hit. You lose that one.
All right. Yeah, you like to drink, like tell me more Kevin Eve alcoholic. You have a broader Spectrum.
Of expertise. Oh, thank you when it comes to do now that you put it that way. Yeah. When it comes to training. Yeah, and in the dark
arts of the top all
consumption. So Tim, thank you for mentioning that I did get my PhD. Now, I would say that I did try this at a party about four or five months ago, and I think you'd made a joke before. The show started we were like, is something about car accidents and a helmet. It's like if you're going to drive fast enough, no, what I said,
was he there?
Point at which it doesn't really help when you're like,
Band-Aids are great, if you cut your finger, like you want Bandit, right? But if you just like chop finger off, yes, that's been. My problem is, I've every time I try one of these,
I've chopped my heart.
I always had a party where it was like everyone was passing them out and I'm like the hangover cure like I'm in. And then I have like five drinks. It was our big annual in a tea party. You not this year but last year and they end up being a lot drinks and so I woke up little hung over. So anyway, didn't work for me. I have the product now.
It could be great Daria if you tried it, have you had any success? No, no success. They're all right so I'd be curious to hear what people think and this is really broadly to lob a question into the audience, which is what have you found helpful for hangers. And you can just hit us on Twitter with hashtag hangover
and I'm sure they're gonna be a bunch of sanctimonious
people are like, I don't drink, that's what I do but you guys can not reply because we don't need those. I've cut back a lot on booze but occasionally there's a place for
It. And by the way, all you folks are alike. I'm enlightened. I don't drink anymore. I just use ketamine five times a week. You guys are going to have a rude awakening in a handful of you. Did you hear that? They've they're finding fentanyl mixed in with ketamine now. Of course they are. Yeah, phenols mixed in with everything, by the way, folks, to mg overdose, you're dead. Yeah, if you get stuff mixed in serial don't mess around yet. Another reason not to play around with miscellaneous powders
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What's up next? Dr. Kevin, I want to talk a little bit about my obsession with a i yeah, let's do it because it's changed a lot. So, let me just put it to you this way. You know, how, I always track new shit. Like I pride myself and always being someone to want to play with whatever is kind of halfway working / breaking. If it means that five years from now, I was able to spot something early on and, you know, hopefully identify a trend before it really took off. So I would
Say that GPT when it came out the chat, gbt it was one of those things where the first few versions were just fun for me. It was kind of like, oh, I'm having a conversation with AI. Wow, it's actually producing a real result when I'm like typing to it. It can help me rephrase or rewrite a paragraph or it can summarize some bullet point. It was doing a lot of little small, meaningless more or less tasks, but quite well and then 4.0 came out. Yeah, so, when 4.0 came out, Mike
Sumption of in usage of chat, GPT went from about, let's call it 30 minutes a week to probably about five hours a week now. Okay, so I use it a lot to using it for now. I'm using it to code, it can code for me now. So, you know, my background here like I said, it can be your science but I dropped out and part of the reason I don't know how much I've mentioned this publicly, but part of the reason I dropped out was that I could understand code a lot faster than I can write it. Yeah, and so, still to this day I can
Read code, just fine. Granted sometimes just some syntax. I will have to look up or figure out, but, like, more or less. I'm there. The issue was that if I'm thinking through a problem, it would take me three to four times as long as anyone else to figure out the same problem. I just didn't have the brain for it. Yeah, GPT I can come in and as I start to have little hiccups, or I want to think through a problem, I can just ask it to figure it out for me and it writes code that is like, 99% ready to go. Could you?
Example of a perfect example. Let's say, your WordPress user right. This way your blog's powered on and you're like, hmm. I want to write a new WordPress plugin and I want it to do this with my audience segments like this, do this only once someone is coming from this country and make it appear like this and you could change anything. What you just described in a couple paragraphs and say go it literally will print out all the code for you. You copy and paste it and save it as a script and you're good to go and it works, it's insane. So what does that mean for say,
A five years from now. Well, a couple things practically speaking right now, my engineering team I had one of my developers tell me, hey, I had this what they would call a kind of laborious kind of task of just something you don't want to code. You're like I got I got a re sort this data in a certain way and like yeah this is going to take me 45 minutes. It was done in five using judge. Yes. And so like all of those little meaningless coding tasks. They're just gone. It's done. It's done. And so,
I've been using it to create art and I can tell it to go in right p5.js scripts for me, which is what our blocks is based on for all the N of T. So art, meaning you're using Code. Yeah, generate Jim took part exactly. And so I can describe it visually and it comes back with something. That's amazing. That's cool, I'll show you some examples after the podcast. I'd love to see it. And it's crazy addicting, because you start getting into it and you're like, oh, what if you take it in this direction and this direction even limited no longer by your skill,
Will. But your own internal creativity of your brain and your ability to prompt. Well yes yes. But you can even help it right. You. So I'll give an example. This is about to get super meta.
Yeah, exactly. You can tell
it. I'm having a hard time, writing a prompt. How my name? Be more efficient. And I'll give you 10 ways to rewrite the prompt. It's helping itself. It's so nuts. Yeah, and so, once you realize that it's so much more than just rewriting a paragraph where you are helping put together an essay, but it can actually create real software.
Were you I realize now that what's going to happen is that Marc Andreessen was very famous venture capitalist. Maybe a decade ago of saying, software is eating the world. Yeah right. And so it was this idea that we had all of these old systems that were largely pen and paper based or weren't connected or weren't efficient and software would come in and be connected. The data, we put in the cloud and we would have this new type of in Cloud infrastructure, right? That would power everything and be connected like it never.
As before all of that is still continuing to happen. But this next generation is what I believe is, AI is going to eat the software. So if software ate the world, AI is going to eat the software, meaning that AI is going to come in and reimagine every single tool that we use. So, every single productivity tool that we use, it will be a part of almost every application that we use in really meaningful ways. I've seen it sort data and create I don't know about you. But when I use
All the hardest thing for me to always wrap my head around and figure out where pivot tables Jared. Get good at pivot tables. No, no, we're gonna Excel pair. Oh my God. Pivot tables were one of those things where I was just like it was a they're a nightmare to his notebooks and then I was my notebooks. Okay, skirt. So anyway you don't have to learn any longer, you just tell it what you want, how you want the data, slice and dice and it just like what I don't mean is output from chat gbt but I mean it will be working in Excel or in Google Sheets and just automatically rewrite the tables for you.
You just going to give it a little prompt that's it. And I'm telling you this, this is coming a lot faster than I thought. So, two years ago, it was very linear to me. I was like, I month-over-month like, oh yeah, Chad GT3 is out now. 3.5 and I see a little bit of an upgrade when for hit, oh my God, like it's a vertical. It's gone vertical. It's exponential now. And so to the next couple years are going to be insane, just insane. Yeah. I think the next 12 months are going to be. Yeah, you're probably right.
Yeah, yeah. Well cuckoo bananas I've been not to the extent that you have probably but experimenting here in there having my team experiment. Also to see if people who are non technical I'm non-technical but I can figure out quite a few things. People who really have, maybe even an allergy to a lot of tech tools. Like what they can do with cheap easy just to try to peek around that corner like okay, what is this going to look like when there's more mass adoption and
I ran an art competition which was an AI art competition, a while back and was absolutely, this is flew the punch of car. This is for the punch of cock. They punched the
clock since they say is, they say, it's been translated into many languages.
Oh, yeah, no. It's a
massive Global hasten on Japanese, by the
way. Coupon
shit.
Yes, that
As for the cock punch nft which raised two million bucks, something like that, may one point seven to two million bucks for the foundation, which is great. All that's been deployed and that's all fantastic for scientific research, but the point I was going to make the art competition following that we're fan art was being generated using AI. People could also use Photoshop and other tools to fine-tune or to manipulate anything that came out of same, a journey or dolly or something like that. The results absolutely blew my mind.
And I'm going to be, you heard it here first folks, I'm going to be running some more competitions, which will have different formats, because a prerequisite or condition of valid submission for the competition was, you had to capture your entire process. Well, enough that somebody could stand a good chance of replicating, a result. Mmm. And by capturing that now we have, let's just say the top 10 finalists. You have 10 extremely good tutorials for people who want to step into the ring and play with it themselves. So you've heard of stable too.
Fusion, right? I have you cancel, stable, diffusions one like mid-journey is one like any of these like Dolly, they can create imagery out of prompts, right? Stable, diffusion went open source. Yep, which was a big like, oh, fuck Maverick move. Yeah, it was. But it was like, oh shit, because like they release it once you release it, open source. Yeah, everybody's got it and they're running with in different directions, right? So buddy of mine, gave me a Discord to go and do anything. You got to check this shit out of. This is crazy, right? And it's a, it's called unstable diffusion, okay?
So they basically took all the guard rails off a stable effusion. Yeah. You know, all the protections and show. Oh my God. What kind of stuff do you see, dude? What do you think you see? I don't know if deep fake Taylor Swift porn. Imagine anything. No, no. Anything you can imagine in its Altra realistic state, where you're almost like you look at your like is that an image? You don't even know it's tricked. You already. It's like porn done.
And its finest. Very tasteful, a I pour no no but like you can do whatever you want. Yeah. So like there's all these different channels and so you can go into some channels and see aliens with six breaths and like weird ship where you're like that looks real. Not like not the movie of Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger was in with the three breasted woman. You know? I'm talking about Total Recall. Yeah, not that like, this looks for
real like, if it's
disturbingly. Real stuff, right. Teenage boys are screwed. They're not going to get anything done in the next to do this.
Ten years don't, but there's food in terms of
relationships, dude, I'm telling you. This is what worries me? Remember the movie her? Right? Yeah, I do. So right, moving one of the things about her for people that haven't watched it. You got to go and watch this because it's going to become a reality. This man that has a relationship with his phone and the phone has a very serious a eye on it. Yeah fun or laptop when he's at work, right? Exactly. As ubiquitous AI companion just following him around, right? And one of the things about opening I that you can do now is
you can save and train model data to be persistent. What you can do is you can go in and you can say here are the properties of who I want you to be and people are doing this. There's this website that has all these AI hacks prompt packs, they call it and you can go in and say you are this personality type, your a little bit bitchy or sassy like blah blah and you can save this and it will respond to you and learn from you and you can have what appears to be a human conversation with your perfect.
Like polar opposite or whatever you're looking for in life, dude, I'm telling you or three years out from that being conversation, base, have you heard of replica with a? Yes, of course. I look at that. I almost invest in that company years. All right, so you could explain replicates, they claim to have 10 million registered users. Yeah, yeah. So this is a comment that was Raising Capital quite a while ago and I saw them but it was before the AI thing really took off. But, yeah, I mean, this is this idea and I were because like, you know, you think of concept because her just so you guys know. I mean,
There's more to it but yeah that's basically it. You would know this better than I would, but in Japan there's been this the decrease in dating and I've heard about there's like the shame of like whether or not you have a high-quality job enough, there's like this disconnect between the male and female population. You know, I'm talking about. It was a report that came out on the how dating was in the decline. Well, dating and fertility utility. Yes, reproduction in general is on the decline and they're in a very problematic situation. Mash'Em birthrate, like replacement rates, they're in a
Really sticky terrible situation. Okay. So now I think China could be in like 20, 30 years, 20 years, probably I think we're all going to be there because I think Appalachian implosion you might just have a partner online like a AI. Yeah like we might just have ai partner so you know I was talking to someone about this because as you mentioned bomb single now and they said oh you should hop on replica just like check it out and I was like I don't actually want to scare you. Well it scared me in the sense that I was like okay there are times I'm really lonely. Yeah.
And humans are messy, humans are difficult. And if you get close to someone, it's great for a while, you have the honeymoon, phase and things are great and puppy love. And look at everything. You do so funny. And then things change the gets a little more complex but if you had an AI companion who especially if it were compelling voice, which is going to happen immediately doing two years, it's already like I've seen a I can't remember the company names but that
I've been trained on voice data, yes to mimic and I actually know podcasts are being produced right now. This shows using AI. We're not even here AI to read scripts that are sort of pieced together from celebrity sample data. Yes. And listeners have no idea. Yeah, they have no idea like these podcasts are
Not quote unquote real because it's not what you think it is and we are so close to their being. The equivalent of like the Scarlett Johansson, her guy like sexy, smoky voice, like sassy funny getting there as you little shit from time to time but doesn't ask you pick up your socks. Yeah we pray that nothing dark is looking at. Yeah I'm just I'm kidding I didn't want to dig into replica because I wasn't you know there's a chance. Yeah you that's for better than I think it's going to
Yes, and then I start playing the game because I'm like, I'm just testing the service and then I start getting my human needs met by this Ai and it takes the pressure off of which, maybe sometimes could be a good thing, but takes the pressure off of human interaction. Dude, this is my point. This is why I wanted to bring this up. I think this is going to happen. The question is, if I Children of Men here, actually I have a question for Daria. If I start having a AI, I'm talking to someone on a i that is
As a female AI person is that cheating?
It is. Yes. What that doesn't suck? No, no, I'm just repeating. What she said
that doesn't, that doesn't surprise me. I've
thought about this a lot, too. I'm like sheeting. If I talk to AI. Well, I mean, especially if it's like sexting and this than the
other. Why is that
cheating? It's an AI. Why wouldn't she say? She said well you don't talk to
me,
will stop bitching about my socks. I think this will become an absolute issue.
What's going to be a huge issue? Can be huge. This is one of the things that they really truly keeps me up. Being like, I either need to invest in this company or avoided or combination of their of, they invest in it, so that you can have your bug out bag and your bunker. It's just everything prepared for the apocalypse. Okay, speaking of the Apocalypse, do you mind if we switched? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. That was a fun one. Balaji bet that was a fun. I'm glad you brought that up. So I'm a spectator mostly this point. I may be all the serve as a stand-in for the
Audience for those who are not deeply intimate with crypto or this world, but what that? So Balaji sreenivasan, what bet did he make roughly? We don't have to get all the dates right or anything like that. And what do you think of it? Yeah. So basically for people that don't know, this is an individual biology is like really well-known former CTO of coinbase. Yes. And also in just insanely well known for nailing. A lot of the covid predictions. Yeah. Like he came out and said like really intimate details like
If you know, masks will be a fashion statement like really early on, where if you read this stuff and we all have a historically going back, he be like Bravo like really precious stuff, right? So you know when he talks about the future a lot of people pay attention. Yep. And so one of the things that happened with the collapse, the lot of regional banks with SV B. And then first, Republican others, as he said this is not an isolated event. It was going to be a triggering, that's going to lead to hyperinflation the D value of the dollar and in the next 90 days.
He's Bitcoin is going to be worth 1 million dollars a coin and I'm willing to stake and bet a million dollars. That that is the case and somebody else had challenge. I think he responded to someone who said I'll put a million dollars online he's like I'll take that bet. Okay there you go. Some guy think June 17th or something so you're more active than I am but that was essentially it so that led me to pay attention. I was like okay well laughs interesting dance. Right let's dive into this and figure out what's going on with Bitcoin and honestly what it caused me to
I do personally is I hadn't paid attention to bitcoin a long time. Yeah, I've been in the world of ethereum with an empty and everything else. And there's something nice about how scalable and green etherium is that. Now that's moved to proof of stake and there's just a lot more activity their day-to-day than there is a Bitcoin, right? But I started digging into Bitcoin and one of the things I realize is that in a world where the Press Cycles are always coming back to, oftentimes, they're hitting a theorem pretty hard in that.
They're in ft's go up. They go down, they go left. I go, right? That's like a bad. Look for etherium in some cases, people get hacked. It's a bad look, like, lose a certain amount of money. I know both. Yeah, I know that quite well, but I'm just saying that there's these certain black eyes and there's something about the Simplicity of Bitcoin and the store of value that is still attractive because it is it's the OG cryptocurrency you know it's still trading it over thirty thousand dollars of the time of this podcast.
And every year that goes on, it seems to be a more legitimate asset parting on April 16th. Yeah, but every year that goes on, it seems to me. What more legitimate ask that is going to stand the test of time. It's not going to 0. It's a digital currency was the first of its kind. So I started playing around with some of the layer to that's built on top of that with the lightning Network and notice that some of the pain points have been smoothed down a little bit. Do you explain to people who don't know what that is? So Bitcoin is notorious for being just a very low transaction per second Block Chain.
So, if you threw like, say the Visa scale at it, like, how many times a Visa card gets wiped every day? It's laughable, it's like, they can do singular low double-digit, transactions, per second. Whereas Visa can do, you know, 40,000-plus or whatever. Maybe I'm right. These are rough estimates, but you get what I'm saying? It's along those orders of magnitude, so Bitcoin had to figure out a solution that would scale help it, skill that infrastructure so that more payments Could Happen. Yep. And so they created a layer to the kind of sits on top of it. It resolves back.
To the main coin. So it has the security and safety of Bitcoin. It's much how ethereum is scaling right now with some of the layer 2 networks that sit on top of it. So their main one is called, lightning is the lightning Network and so it allows you to ultra-fast transactions, it can scale up to, they say, I think it's up to a million transactions, a second or something, something crazy. They haven't tested it that those limits but that's what the paper is written as anyway. So I tried a bunch of this stuff out. I kick the tires on a few things and then I realize that Bitcoin unlike aetherium, the
Nice thing about it, it has this finite Supply, that is slowly coming to an end like overtime, right? So every, I think it's four, four and a half years, they do a half inning event, where they decrease the total number of issued coins in half. They chop it right in half. As in terms of the number of coins, new coins issued and they're about to do another cycle here in a little over a year. So, when this next half inning event happens, there's even less currency coming out of that death.
Faucet. So, these half inning Advanced. I went back and looked historically and they're typically the year before, the half inning event in the year, after The Happening event. You typically see a pretty how many angelwings of the urban quite a few five now or something like that. So you typically see, don't get me wrong, like I'm not saying this is not investment advice, this is not always going to hold true. But obviously, if there's more demand and less Supply, meaning less Bitcoins being issued, you're going to see a change in price.
That's just obviously we know these markets have and how they play out. So no one's talking about the happening yet. It typically people start raising chatter around this time and so when every single other time when I own a half inning events start to happen and the chatter starts to spin up the price has always gone up and I've watched this happen time and time again. So for me I was like, you know what? Classic cryptocurrency I hate that. It's not green. That kills me, I'm happy that more mining services.
Are going green and they're moving to cheaper energy sources, which are typically by thermodynamic and a bunch of the nuclear energy in a. But they try to wind their exactly ton in Texas. Yes. They're trying to move closer to these energy sources than get cheaper power that said, I still think there's a lot of just, a lot of dirty energy that's being wasted here on Bitcoin mining. It's a big bummer. That is the one part that just gives me a little bit of pause that like kind of hurts my soul, but I did purchase a little position there.
Because I do like it especially in times where we see the D value of the dollar, we see Russia and China, buying more gold and I'm just like I want a nice hedge that's decoupled from the dollar that's sitting out there that you know, I'm not saying it should be a big double digit percentage of your overall asset allocation. But for me personally, I don't mind having a little that parked instead on the side so maybe you could repeat for the audience. What?
You said to me, this is a while back. But when we were talking about this, we were talking about what might happen if the dollars just massively devalued, or if we experience hyper hyper hyper inflation. Yeah, we're like carting around dollar bills and wheelbarrows to buy a kit kat at the local 7-Eleven. Well, you were, and I had that we're talking about this and we're like, oh, this is crazy bad happen. This is probably like a boy to maybe a month ago. Yeah, and we're like this crazy bad happened. It's a million dollars. And if it
Goes the million and I was like wait a second if Bitcoin goes the million dollars. That is hyperinflation than a million dollars is worth. Can you said? Yeah like the price of a sandwich or
something like that? It's like, yeah.
So it doesn't really matter like Bitcoins a hard one because when you traditionally, think about currencies, you always think them Peg to somebody else's GDP, right? So, you think of the pound being pegged to what's going on in the UK and it's like, what do you Peg Bitcoin to? Yeah, well also like there's the question of like, what is its value?
You in the absence of a reliable Peg, right? I mean, this is to be clear. I'm sure the Maxis are going to have a field day with this one, but there are some people I respect and admire among that crowd, but they're also a lot of very aggressive religious fundamentalists in there, which I'd prefer not spent so much time with, but there are a bunch of questions that I have that. I don't have great answers to but they're just questions. One would be what you just described if the dollar experiences, this massive hyperinflation, how does one establish the value of B?
Wine for the exchange of services or Goods, right? The second I think, is for me, what happens in a place like Europe? What happens in a place like Japan? What happens in a place? Like fill in the blank if the u.s. collapses, right? So where is the sort of currency Safe Haven, right? If there is one and then the next question is, if things were to get that bad,
If we assume for the moment that the rise in bitcoin price to let's just say, biology's bed of a million is predicated on a similar increase in hyperinflation for the dollar, right? Which would just not be sustainable, right? The whole country just blows to pieces. Do you not have more pressing problems in Bitcoin? We're like are you going to be able to get on your United flight to escape the u.s. to fill in the blank location? You're going to have such a series of questions that are more fundamental.
Perhaps then money that if you think that is a likely outcome, you should be in full-blown Advanced prepper mode right now. Right. Well, the question I think I have is like are the rails in place for the Preppers to get into Bitcoin or the bitcoiners to get into prepping properly. But yeah. But let's let's we can deal with the first. Yeah. So the first one I would say is like we take a look at this is two of us playing economist.
On the TV on on
podcast, which is not those with somebody is, which is
never sound advice. But yeah, this is not economic advice but any Central Bankers are listening right. The exactly. Please. Come on. Join us. So the one thing that I think is interesting is when you think about was happening worldwide right now with China and with Russia and we take a look at the data, what is the data tell us over the last few months and what has been reported is that China and Russia right now? Are
Not buying Bitcoin, but they're buying a lot of gold. And so that to me doesn't signal. As though we have an emergent new world currency is much as it does in stability and a flight to safety. And so if there's instability in a flight to safety and gold is still the kind of safe haven for that which it appears to be, that would explain why. I mean there's been since November, there's been a 40% run up on the price of gold.
And so I don't know that Bitcoin is that safe haven but there's one chart is one graphic that blew my mind and it made me rethink everything. And that is when the day that s VB, came out and said we're potentially insolvent, and all the regional Banks took a hit. Yep, there was a screenshot. Did you see the screenshot? Do you know about got? There was a screenshot where someone saved to their iPhone? All the
Regional Banks, all the major Banks even as well. And it was a list of all them in the stocks app, right? You know, he can list them into, like, it just goes down the screen. It's like - 20 %. - 15% - 30 %, like just going down. This guy is just like Barbie was like - salty something. It was just bloody all the way down. And then there was two at the top, it was Bitcoin in aetherium and they're both green like heavy green. And that was the first time where I was like, oh shit. Because every single time there has always been at least this is
It's observational data like I'm just like from what I can recall, the market has been more or less tightly coupled with Bitcoin. In the theory makes the markets Down super tightly coupled at the markets down there down, it's a speculative asset. And when people start to feel their pocketbooks hurting, they pull out of cryptocurrency, this was the first time where I was like, oh shit, some people are moving into cryptocurrency as that bank start to collapse. Now In fairness that is a subset of stocks especially if you're looking at Regional Banks and
Not the S&P 500, right? Yes, I'm pretty sure the S&P was down that day. To let me ask you this and you know that I'm pretty heavily vested in these things. So I'm very deeply interested in Bitcoin but just to act as a stand-in, let us assume that based on at least the homework that I've done, which your mileage may vary, but the S&P has been very highly correlated to bitcoin and a theorem for that matter. Yeah, these are treated as risk on assets. Yes.
And when things go down people sell, especially when they're most risky, Shane, you can sell it whenever you want to sell it. And it's the first Market hours. Yada yada yada. What is different this time around? Because I do think there are two issues with the BET one is that and this is this happens to everybody, right? You develop a, it's not quite as sunk cost. Fallacy you develop a confirmation bias? You begin to find reasons to support your book, your existing positions and just
One more thing and that is I do think the Balaji bet can't be viewed solely as a prediction because people pay attention to him people purchase or sell based. Also, some people do biology's predictions and so on and it makes me think of this section in liars. Poker by Michael Lewis, it's the book that made Michael Lewis famous. It's a great book. I think it's mostly about bond trading and there's some big swinging dick.
Top dog inside. I think it was Solomon, Brothers and he bought some position. He was like the markets going up for x and he bought like five hundred thousand dollars worth and it started to go down and people were laughing and he had lost a bet and people are making fun of him and he's like oh yeah and then he bought like five hundred million dollars worth of it and the
market freaked out and went
skyrocketing because they're like oh my God, somebody knows something we don't know. So he was able to move the
Right, right? He made a prediction but he also moved the market and I think that I don't think Balaji is BET bulge can't move the markets to be. Well, I'm not saying he can't move the market, but it was it became Global News. Yes. You don't think he can move the market even if effects larger institutional players and so on. Now, I'm not saying that Balaji single-handedly can move the market. I don't think it's fair to say that it has zero impact on the buying and selling behaviors. Oh no doubt. I mean, I think anyone can temporarily move the market. If
I'm Ferris tweets out. Oh my God. One of my best friend's is insane. Research or just found a hole in Bitcoin. We're all fucked, you know, I have a strong feeling that there would be some amount in prices but you're saying it would recalibrate. Yeah, exactly, exactly. There's just too much volume going through it every single day like it's a hype cycle. Kramer's going to talk about it, it's going to spread. Yeah it's going to have its 48-hour window and then there's going to bump which we I think we saw and then it'll just recalibrate from there. I thought
it was irresponsible to make that type of public pronouncement. I would be shocked if it gets to A Million by mid-june open that it's irresponsible. I just think it's like there are making there are there are people who cannot afford to take their savings and put into Bitcoin. You are going to do well, the good news is gone up since he said that. So there regardless. Yeah, it's one thing to get into a position. Yeah. That's cause you famously. No. Because you're like I'm
buying this and then you never tell me when you fucking sell things are famously. Now we could talk about your banquet.
I mean, yeah, yeah, good Lord. All right, so let's move on from there. I have some fun stuff to talk about, stood. I guarantee you, you're going to love this next little side. Alright, I'm excited. Okay, yes, we talked about New Year's resolutions before, Oh God. But I have one that I didn't tell you about, okay? I want to show you something here, all right? Seeing this for the first time, you can go ahead and read this for the audience here. What does that say?
This is ABC letter tracing, practice workbook for kids ages what ages 3 plus. Okay. And then when you open the first page, what is this? A oh, Kevin Rose age, 45, February 9th, 2023. And then, what do you see from here? All your letter tracing, yes. So I'm learning how to write with my right hand. Amazing. This is incredible.
Pretty, it's pretty shaky. Hands are a little
shaky. You can see them having some issues.
Here, I love stop laughing, the background. My wife is like dying on the ship is so good. It's funny she didn't know about this is the first she's hearing me, but this is great. I have started to learn how to write with my right hand. Yeah. And I decided these cute bunnies and acorns. It's getting a little mushroom puppies. Make an interesting. So I'm just now getting started. I got a ways to go, but this is one of those things where I was watching my kids do it, and I'm watching their
Kind of activate as they're like learning how to trace and how to and Zelda's really actually her letters were flopped and turned around. At one point, another straight doesn't, that's what I did. You did the same thing. Yeah, I still do it. Dysgraphia my letters end up backwards and upside down and stuff. When I write some letters. Yeah, and handwriting, sometimes I skip a letter and then I come back and rewrite it and what the fuck that is. But that's some I got, I don't know. I get to have my crazy. I just like jump early onset dementia. Okay, great. Thank you. But the thing here is I have
Have no scientific reason. Other than to say, I realize that this is activating somewhere in my brain, something new. Yeah, and it's just like one of those things where I'm left handed. So I always smudge the shit out of everything I did was just like a streak of ink across the page because my hand as like, you know what my kids are learning. Why don't I learn at the same time and so I something I started that's awesome. Anyway. I thought you'd enjoy the music. Yeah it's fun. You just like actually my hand gets really fatigued and so I have to start, you know. So I set a timer for
10 minutes. And then, I just go to town and, like start doing my numbers, my letters. And then just like, I got two workbooks, and my office. And isn't it says I thought you would like, because that's a lot of them learner, like, it's something you'd be into. I'm totally into it. And I what it's doing for me is like helping my certain part of my brain that Ari would know. Daria would have more credibility in discussing this, in any capacity, there is something kind of similar that. When did he start this? Just the beginning of your have you tried writing with your left hand. I have because I'm broken so many things so many times. So I when I shattered my
My wrist. One of several times, I had to do my writing and school with my left hand and for the first week, it was terrible. I was also just thrown into baptism by fire because like okay. Now you get to write for like several hours a day with your non-dominant hand? Yeah, it's kikes. Are you good? Are you can you? Oh, I don't think I'm good.
This is because life is
I say it's weird. I'm sure. Right-handed equally weird for you but just like the whole like hook law. Yeah. So I wanted to pull up the name of an artist who got me back.
Into penciling, and she was not aware of this, but she published a book that I ended up grabbing, which was unbeknownst to me a guide to her toolkit and approach too much of her artwork, art Walker will look. I'm so tired, folks. It's not any booze slip, terribly last night, it will talk about my low back. I have all sorts of low back is I had a
little back this morning though.
This woman I might be pronouncing her first name incorrectly but I'm going to say Eliza
Ivanova and her account on Instagram is Eliza ele, é Za. One of my favorite artists out there she's spectacular and season. We're just, uh, yeah. Formerly at Pixar and her ability to draw animals and portraits is just spectacular and there's a certain like surreal. Oh, I love this. Feel to it and she's wishes using here. I'm showing an Instagram video. She's oozing, smudging, stick.
Instead of say cross-hatching, which can be really rough on the wrists and the hands to very quickly, create amazing pieces of Art and she has a number of books. I bought her most recent book which gives sort of an overview of her technique and approach to art work. And so I have been like this type of stuff, for instance, rather than starting with sort of a stick figure or a not quite mannequin. That's not the word I'm looking maquette, not maquette but rather than
Thing with the bones of someone starting with the outline of the figure then adding chicken good, then adding the details and going back and forth. It's So in just wish you had that skill set. I mean you're really good. I'd but that you're not that. How she's better. Yeah. She's obviously much better screen. Might look Wrong, by the
way. Yeah I do. I can't see the certain angle. This is a new
thing. All right. When our story you're going to love this. Yeah. Protecting your checking my screen. Yeah. But while this is a privacy screen. Yeah. And I
To a restaurant here in LA and sit down at the bar because that's what's available. Huge bar. It's like 75 feet wide by yourself. Yeah. Was that excited? You know, I just finished work out. She's text me up when you're doing. She like this. I'm come join you for a drink that's horseshit. You're always super busy. We're in the same neighborhood, I'll text you actually see this here. Yeah, so I had done a workout I finished and then I was just like, hey, I'm looking for a place to eat. What can you guys recommend ended up at this restaurant? I was sitting there ordered my food.
Dude, having a great time. Beautiful venue flirting, a little bit with the waitress. Like, that's not going to go anywhere, but it's fun. Like she was just Good Vibes like, it wasn't good. Clearly wasn't gonna go anywhere, but it was just, it was just fun. And then somebody comes and sits right next to me. There's like, 20, empty seats abuses. I had this one, I was pissing one time, yeah. Movie theater. Okay. All right, we're there was 30 urinals and yeah, dude walks all the way down and stands right next to me. And I'm like yeah, yeah thanks, buddy. So sorry next to me and ultimately ended up being
A fan of mine, and he was very cool. But the fact that he was sitting right next to me meant, I felt very self-conscious. Looking at my phone, I was like if I look at anything on my phone are try to text someone or anything. This is incredibly visible to everyone around me. And so I ended up getting a privacy screen for my phone, which is fantastic. It's such a simple
solution. Also be Texas, Works quite
well and there you have it. That's my
story Little private. That's the my story about the
Privacy, right? Yeah, cool.
Story, bro. Yeah, Jesus Christ. It works quite well. I'm actually kind of shocked because I can't see shit from you. And I'm sitting like a foot from you. Yeah, I really can't see anything. It's amazing. It's amazing. It's really helpful. So let me let me try to find this and it's going to, right? I'll start with the next or why you're there is a will hold on, there's a brand of sorts of the be. It's not Balcom belski, it's not belski Belkin Belkin. Yeah. Thank you Daria. I initially was looking for a Belkin because those are well-known and
And I ended up being unable to get it quickly so I just have something made in China that is a similar design. So there you have it. The key term is iPhone protector /, privacy screen and if you search for that you'll find something.
All right, now that your privacy is
covered, they got that son
to my next story, which is Nintendo enough about you. Let's talk about me, so, let me ask you a question. When do you think what? Nintendo was founded? I have maybe some unfair advantages here. I'm going to say 1880. Yes. How did you know that was? I was that close? Yeah, it's in the late 1800's. Yeah, because 1830 it was like later,
ATM. What they do? They turn. So the
Reason I
know that actually you don't even know this not how. So there is a Japanese card game. There is tiny little cards. There are like half the size of a business card. And one of my favorite games I played, when I was an exchange student is called hanafuda, hanafuda has these beautiful drawings and it's a matching game in a sense and Nintendo became famous for first, making these card games. How crazy can you still buy them in the the collectible? Yeah, you can still got a whole cool, super cool. Super, super cool.
On them. I must be Japanese. It's in Japanese. Yeah, absolutely. A little Mario characters. No Mario characters. But yeah, don't be amazing Nintendo. I don't know. The ninnies 10 is heaven. And then doors like place of? So like shokudo is cafeteria, like, the pepper. Do is, Le where's that? It's a homonym. So do is the same goal is the same like Aikido door like is the way a way different character, okay? Yeah. Katakana no kanji, kanji different countries.
Different different character but Nene's probably taking in on in Cana we can come back to that. But all right speaking of Nintendo to attend as you know, my firstborn is named Zelda. Hmm. There's a new Legend of Zelda. The tears of the Kingdom opening May 12 which is soon that is soon, I'm very excited for this release and I started playing the old original Zelda. Like the very first one. Cool. So you can plan on the switch, they have emulators now that you can get on the switch. Now, the switch has the old-school.
The traditional switch controllers, but Nintendo released the original, these are charging, so they slide off. Check this out. This is the original Nintendo controller. That's cool. You can get, so that's awesome. Yeah, exactly. So it's
this brings back. So many
memories Fishel from Nintendo, not because you can always find like the Clone USB Nintendo controller has over the fakes and all that, that has the same feel like he pushed the buttons. Like, okay? Everything about it is with Jan. And I
A charge when you slide them on the side of the switch, they charge. That's really good. This be, it's so cool. It's brilliant. It's not awesome. It's super awesome. They have their past. Now where you can get all the original Nintendo games and fun, it's crazy. I was on the marketplace and, and, you know, my dad's passed away. And one of the things that I remember as a child is, there was the original Nintendo pinball, game and my dad used to watch me play and he had actually had a little tiny TV for me. So I could like play next to him as he's watching his shows or whatever. I remember,
Never want to play no games with me. Like he was an older dad and you didn't really like get into Nintendo, but when pinball came out, he's like okay. Let me the grab the controller and so he played Nintendo with me. So when I saw that I was like, oh my God, like you get
to I mean it's so much Nostalgia. Yeah, exactly. I'll just
teach a word for for folks who may be interested in Japanese. They use it a lot more than we say Nostalgia, but they would say not to cause she not squishy. That's cause he knows, that's sort of got the same feel as nostalgic, but they
Use it kind of like saw dodgy and Brazilian Portuguese but it's roughly like ah, like how nice like Ah that's really Nostalgia. It brings back the memories. There was a blog post that I saw were was like 25 words that exist in Japanese that don't have English meanings, you know. Yeah. And there's so beautiful, like we capture these like amazing, just like moments in time. Like, there was this one that was like the sunlight as it falls between branches branches. Yes, homo Debbie, yes. What it is like.
Apple's sunlight coming through tree.
Branches and leaves. It's so good. So amazing. Like they have a word for
that. Come on, baby. It's amazing. Yeah, super beautiful. So so I was, I was in Tokyo. Yes. Celebrating my 10-year wedding anniversary. Ongratulations again. Yes, that was amazing and we had a ton of fun Daria. Met me out there. We did a moon Birds meet up so we had over 100 Japanese speaking member its collectors out there, which is challenging an awesome at the same time. And then
Henry, my zen instructor here Shipman, here in the United States, introduced me to the head of his lineage of Zen who I got to go out and meet with and sit down with and have a little carry. I gave it. Yeah. Exactly. What drinking? And the karaoke together. All night long. No. But we had a little private gathering in sit down and did a private jokes on you exercise, the demons. He helped me with my practice and gamey speaks.
Is English is quite good. It was very intimidating, very active at this is that it has some bows in three Treasures like a big lineage of Zen and I'm sitting here with this guy, you know, and he's just like, asking me very pointed questions about my intention horns are, is your intention with my daughter? You know, what, more or less like it was, but it was like, very, cutting questions to you'd like, like, what Like a Surgeon, just coming in, and just
I don't know if I should say the things because it was his private interview, you know, I'll give you an example. It's more or less, like, why are you here? Where are you? You know, how, in Zen, they have these. We've talked about these cons before you've done interviews, with Henry, and thank you for doing those. Yeah, where it's like, these moments where of really good. Zen master can come in and look at a student and know kind of exactly the little nudge, they need to give them. There's these like moments where they grab your coat and yank you in a certain direction. Just to
Get you to like Snap like boom, they want you to pop. Yeah, and it was very much that why are you here? What do you want from this like boom, boom, boom. Think the guy who actually I walk my Airbnb has been
assessed. That's questions.
Exactly, but less fentanyl driven, but yeah, so it was amazing. It was very here, the serious ones have cut back on their fennel lat. Yeah, this guy was operating in a different. What did that feel like for you? Like what was, why did you want to do it? First of all,
You know, Henry had said, such great things about him. He will never say this publicly but I believe he is what I'll say it for him. No I will because I think it's important like he's such a modest guy. Henry is one of I think it's like five or so fully sanctions and Masters in this lineage. And that's a big deal. When there's, you know, hundreds of teachers in this realm. So this is his master, his teacher, if you get a chance to take that meaning you take it you know. And so you know I want to know like Nam.
Busy. Yeah, it's gonna try out some new shoes. I'm too busy to going to try some fancy Japanese coffee but which I did which is amazing Kappa mamaia it out. There is fantastic. But honestly though the one thing that I took away from it, for people that that I will share, is that one of the things he asked me is he's like, how often do you practice and how long do you practice? And I said, you know, I practice 25 minutes a day, probably five days a week and he goes, what about the other two days? And I go, well, I got to start up. I got this. I got that. And he goes, and I'm paraphrasing here because I don't care if you practice
Five minutes a day. He goes, don't miss a day. Don't break a day. Continue to do it. Don't miss a day. And since then I have not missed a day and I will say it's kind of amazing, because even if you can sit down for five minutes, it just keeps that continuity going and it actually keeps me a slightly elevated more. I don't know. It keeps the commitment stronger like it's it feels better and that was Sound Advice. It's great advice. Sorry. Can I trouble you for just a little bit of water, please, thank you so much.
Got to Consumers are the other was, I was it was saving that your team has actually what we was what water you can do it. Hold on. I want. Don't tell me. You got it
Oishi, it's always
easy. What? We she know that's it's delicious. Yeah, I know the water is tasty. Let me Zoom. Is it Miss or mrs. Beazer? Yeah. Home is like mizutani, mrs. Heck
There are a lot of musicians out there.
So let's stay on the Japanese character.
Yeah, this is a book in front of me which I'm just digging into Japanese death poems. Let's talk about Japanese death poems. I did not actually embarrassed to admit. No, this was the thing. This was given to me by a friend who has spent a lot of time in military and has developed a rather unique perspective, unique perspectives on death from the vantage, point of a
A person, right? Of a civilian. And so this book is I'll just read the quote on the back. This is one of the blurbs a wonderful introduction to the Japanese tradition of GC. This volume is crammed with exquisite spontaneous verse and pithy often hilarious descriptions of The Eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems. So these poems are written on the verge of death. And literally, the subtitle is written by Zen monks and Haiku poets on the
Verge of death. Yes, and it's incredibly well researched. You have not just the English versions of the introduction and all the context of the Japanese and then you have footnotes describing, what these various words, might mean what the metaphor is allude to, and it's really just a phenomenal window into an aspect of Japanese culture that I had no exposure to
Of expected that I would have been exposed to this before, but I'm looking forward to diving into this. And I've already read perhaps the first 10 pages, so this is Japanese death poems. So if on by Tuttle publishing compiled and with an introduction by yoel Hoffman so I have a handful. I don't know if I told you this but I have a handful of haiku books that I've read by a Japanese Masters. Yeah. And one of the things I always felt was just so beautiful about them. Is they always include?
Dude, they're kind of death poems. Like, at the very end, it's often times like, on their deathbed when they're about to pass. What is the last thing that they wrote down right? And soften in Haiku form if they're a haiku Master. Yeah, totally. And so, it's just, it's beautiful stuff. Yeah. Yeah, there's some really Japanese stuff in here. And I like, this is died. 1698 for not honoring my parents. While I lived. In my last hour, I feel remorse. That is super Japanese.
The Autumn Hues of knotweed seem like cups of wine. Are you a big fan of haiku? I am. This is my first time really being exposed to a lot of Japanese and it does sound better in Japanese. Those are certain Cadence to it. So I'm not going to get the pronunciation quite perfectly here, but it's like if you have okay, so Haku do is this person died on the 19th day of the 12th month, 1766. So the English
And I'm going to fuck this up in Japanese. So I apologize to any Japanese speakers out there but the English just listen to the sounds like the Cadence. So the English is an ailing Mallard falls through the chilly night and Teeters off. Okay. The Japanese is yawmu Cardinal your some annuity orbit okona, right? So just like has has a cleaner crisper Cadence to it, which doesn't mean you shouldn't do the English. But this is my first time being exposed to a lot of
You in Japanese, which is fun for me. Number one, makes it very hard for me to decipher in many cases, but they have a beautiful sound to them, that's awesome. I have to pick that book up, death pumps. There's a great poem about a haiku and about the Masters called three simple lines, okay. If you've read that, no, it's a fantastic book that is written by a Zen practitioner. That covers a lot of the Zen masters of haiku and along with a really beautiful personal story. So, very short read, definitely worth picking up
Up along with this. Yeah, I mean how Japanese relate to death which selling I have some exposure to but not to the poems. This particular G say format tells you a lot about how they live and it does provide sort of a prism through which you can appreciate, how they navigate a lot of life, as well in addressing the final hours and thinking about dying death, the path to death.
When you get a better understanding of that, many of the things you observe in Japanese culture, make more sense. Yeah. Anyway, if you ever done an escape room, yes you have yes. How many multiple really multiple, what does that mean? Like 100. Like for there's this stupid the fatigued way. So I did my first escape room today. I had a fucking blast. I don't know. What's wrong with you. You're getting old and boring? No, it's just like you're going in there and it's like what are you doing? Like you can get out. If you
Two. Are they really locking you up? No.
It's called game. Kevin. Yeah, I
know what you're playing, Zelda, you're trying to do shit in a video game. You don't actually need to do those
things. No, but I just sorry can explain it. Like, you know, I'm talking about like you go in there and you're, they lock you up. It's a little room. And they're like, we really quick, grab the book. And, like, open up the book and turn to chapter 12, and people are yelling shit out, and you're just like, I don't want to do this. I just want to have a drink. All
right, so I'm gonna provide a contrast in Styles
here.
So Kevin who got? So outraged that I implied that he drank alcohol earlier. It's
so I just know. My
friends want me to do it sober and I'm like, why are we doing this? So burn the like can get through it faster, we could break a world record. Well yeah, I'm doing it in a hyper-competitive way, I think is probably not my jam but I had the chance to do Escape rooms for the first time today. I went to this place called Escape Revolution which is here in LA and Langley. Who is one of the cofounders of exploding kittens was kind enough to
Fight me. I don't want to name other people who are there because maybe they do want to be named, but it was a small group and I thought it was absolutely fantastic. You have an hour, there's some type of free text or or story there's a narrative Arc. So in our first instance, I'm not going to give it away any of the tools so I won't provide any teasers but we had a real armored car that's locked in a garage. That's cooler than mine and your robbers and you need to get the money out.
Out of the car but the mechanic who set up all the security systems ran off because the police are on the way. So you have 60 minutes to figure it out and we had a blast and this place is built in such a way that the set design and the sound effects, and the entire experience makes it. I don't know say cinematic, but it's just a very compelling way to become immersed in a story and you have to collaborate. I also part of what made it fun
That I have a game designer right in the lonely. I had a number of other people who were very accustomed to mechanics of different types, not car mechanics, but like game mechanics. And so on a woman who had done almost 2,000 Escape rooms ourselves cheeses, which is all to say, it was a cool group of people to. They were in interact with they were into it. But then there were two newbies. I was one of those two newbies, who'd never done this before and then the second one was jailbreak and we were lucky
locked in cells which were like legitimate cells with was that solo, what do you like to do? Have to figure out how to get out of your own cell. It was three people to a cell and then you need to figure it out. I kind of wish it was so low. I don't know. I just have this hard thing where it's like, we're all yelling shit. I'm just like, can we just relax for a second? What your group was like, there's no yelling, but there's no
yelling, there's no yelling in This Crew. Ya know this, this to you like
it. Yeah. Dark doesn't like it either. All right.
She hates games. It's one of those things where I just maybe I haven't had the right experience because we were the ones in Portland. We're kind of Jank. I don't remember much. I just remembered that we went in there and they were just like shit hidden in like little bookcases and stuff and I'm just like why am I looking through these bookcases? There's other things to do. I've got emails, I haven't
checked and it is like a lot of shit. Oh my God I'm like why am I working to figure that out this thing when it's not even a thing.
V. I mean you don't need to work out in the gym to, like, outrun hyenas on the
street. So what are you doing to the gym? Sun's out guns out. That kind of thing.
That's why. I'm glad you had a good time. I had a fucking great time. One other thing I did this weekend which I had never experienced and if people have the chance, I would recommend is experiencing High Fidelity, immersive sound for the first time, like actually listening to music in a store or a location where they're paying attention to all the
Variables. Yes, the most I've ever done is really to the extent that I personally can set up a few. So, no speakers and house. Yeah, that's it. That's as fancy as I have ever gotten and I was having dinner with a few friends. Well, one close friend at a few new friends, who are professional musicians, and they heard me say this and they were like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, we need to go to a good location and put you in a seat to let you listen to some of the music. You think, you know, where do they take you in?
Super high fidelity, this place called common wave, and the staff. There were exceptional. We went from one set up to another set up to another set up to another set up and it was spectacular. It was like having a full-blown, psychedelic experience in some respects. So for those who may have the opportunity, if you have the opportunity, I really came to appreciate just how much goes into music. I thought I knew but it only listen to a
That in hindsight relatively low bitrates. Yes, and it is just a different experience altogether because this game about initially at dinner because I asked somebody at dinner, who's who's a TV writer? I asked him if he ever watches TV and has trouble, immersing himself in TV and he said, I don't really watch TV and I was like, well, what do you spend your time doing? If you're just having fun. He said, I listen to music and I'll let you listen to music while you're doing something else or you listen to music as a dedicated.
Activity, is it? And he said, I listen to music as a dedicated activity. I was like, okay. Tell me more about that. Yeah. And that's how we ended up. So, one thing you might want to consider. I've been down this path, a couple of times, and there's two ways to approach it. One, you either go high-fidelity system for your house or you go really high in headphones and I recently realized that back even just two years ago to do a high-end headphones.
Own setup required its own dedicated a, there's a whole rig that you have to get more recently. There are now a lossless over-the-air audio codecs, that can go to headphones. That sound amazing. So over the area you're saying Bluetooth. Yeah, so I got a Bowers & Wilkins. I think it's the px7. It's something along those lines and these are Subway thousand dollars, but they're still pricey. I mean, I think they're like a hundred dollars or something like that, and they can do a lossless codec.
From your software, from your iPhone, to your headphones. And so there's no bit degradation in quality and apple music. Now supports lossless as well. And so you can listen to insanely High Fidelity audio and just sit back and relax and enjoy the music and the headphones. I mean, you'll see the reviews out there, but they're fantastic, huh? Okay. Well, yeah, that would be substantially less exposed. My god, dude, I've seen some setups and I'm sure.
You have to, are you talk to these people? I mean, you're, you know, a couple hundred thousand dollars in. Oh yeah, yeah. I mean there if you really want to get up to the nerdiest of the nerdy and yeah, that's expensive. The expensive. And I do think there's a dramatic drop about wine and all that, right? There's a point of diminishing returns, but there are people out there who spend, you know, a hundred thousand dollars on a cable. Yeah, I mean, it's crazy. You can get as expensive as you want to get, but I would say the in home systems are certainly going to be more expensive than the headset. You're describing its
We met with someone recently those audio/video person so during and I are, you know, we're in an apartment now. And we're moving into a home at some point here in the future. And there's this person that was like, Hey, I can come to your home audio video stuff and like, I literally told the person I was like, I just want Sonos, I just want someone in a decent, pair of speakers because for me, I don't want to spend insane amounts of money when I could just put on an amazing pair of headphones and kick back anywhere in the house. And, you know, either read a book.
Or just relax and like listen to, you know, I'm not going to spend several hundred thousand dollars. When you can probably spend ten Grand in have amazing setup, it's going to sound great. You movies, all that stuff's going to sound fantastic. I don't know up for me. Audio is not one of those things that I want to blow money on. Yeah. Well if you know I've got my relationship with my replica and
you guys single I've had to me so I can just sit in the house by myself, in a
dark corner, listening to
Pink, Floyd, crying and eating
hohos.
As your replica Whispers
to you,
I gotta try this replica and I was it that good. Now, I haven't dared set foot, haven't? You haven't even dabbled. It's like, no, I have not, I have not although few friends have really they like it. Do they get into sexual encounters with the replica? I haven't heard that yet. Okay, I don't think it's there. I'll get there. Oh, surely if they're not going to build it, there silly.
Somebody's going to build that in very short order. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm just imagining neural link type. I don't think virtual sex which will ultimately debilitate all males on the planet once that is actually a real thing but nothing will get done ever by any men ever again but there's been a lot of attention paid to haptic suits and that type of feedback and save ERM ghazali loves this. Yeah haptic suits and they just all their life like to think we're always bring up at him and everybody
gasp. That's right. We talked about
his
Chin hair last
time.
The haptic suits. I always have found interesting, but kind of dissatisfying because it doesn't replicate your Human Experience, right? It feels like something. Vibrating on your chest. Ryan large like I'm wearing a suit, I'm wearing a suit. That's right. DARS doing chest in your quads. Well, so OK, let's say I had like a haptic glove on my schlong, right? It's still not going to feel like The Real McCoy. It's not going to be. I mean try.
All the crazy things that have out now because they have those like ones that look like they have different types of materials that supposed to feel more realistic. I have not. What are we talking about? Well, they have like those great terms
of meters. I've
heard that they have those like those skin like ones that like
there's a lockdown in the supposed to feel really easy,
working a Foley Studio, that was great. But they're supposed to lock down and feel really realistic. Like don't act like you've never heard of
Of that shit, you know, more about this stuff than I do. I don't know. I would look, let me just be clear. I would try that like, I've nothing against
it. I would try it. I just think it's some point. I'm going to be like I feel like I'm
boning a Mattel toy or something. Right? Right. So the the hairs going to neural link is I think rather than the haptic suit there's probably going to be quite a bit. Well at some point I could Envision just having a direct link in yeah where you can simulate. I mean
Yes. Generate really the type of Sensation that you would have. So I think it's going to be the opposite. So here's what I think is going to happen. I think we're going to have essentially a i that comes in and we'll have a relationship with and then your pieces will go into real humans that will play the like her. That's exactly what happened in her. That what happened at the end. I don't remember. Yeah. So they arranged to have like a normal person. Come person come in like, this woman comes in,
Yes, she's got an earpiece and he's got an ear piece and it'll play on. The idea, is they don't communicate? He's just communicating with Scarlett. Johansson who says, AI? I gotta watch this movie and then decades. I've seen it and then they have sex and he has a camera. I think that cameras. So that like the a I could also see what was going on in comment on that during his thing that diamond age book by Neal Stephenson. Yeah, VR is basically played out by like actual actors. Like that's a job. I've heard great things.
Is about Diamond H. I have never read it but Neal Stephenson author. Snow crash some people, yes, my favorite book actually Kryptonite makan and a lot of people hate on Krypton I've got, but I just absolutely loved it. I think I couldn't go back and listen to snow crash. All right. I think I'm done with my stuff. You covered everything. I feel like I've, you know, we're stopping on the Mattel toys, that's fine. Exactly. Covered a low. I have a gift for you. You have a gift. So here's my last story. My last story is that when I was in Tokyo,
I realized that Lego is obviously pretty popular phenomenon amongst a bunch of my Silicon Valley friends, actually. It's like a time. They can get off the computer and build Legos. They have something called nano block, okay, out in Japan which are really tiny. I don't know how they got around them patent of Legos, the really tiny little baby Legos and I got you this little castle. So you may see castle. Look at that. Yeah, this is a little tiny castle and this review mall they do very traditional Japanese structure.
Is in the horses even say the original micro sized building block, all right? So, anyway, if people want to eBay or check it out, it's actually really cool. Because, you know, just recently, Lego started, adding like things, like bonsai trees, and stuff like that. When I was walking down the aisles, in Tokyo of this store, these Nano blocks. They have all these traditional beautiful Japanese structures and so if you're looking for something, if you're into Lego or know somebody that's into this whole thing and I have a lot of friends that built, you know, Back to the Future Cars and every other Lego. That's
Out there, check out Nana block because they have a bunch of stuff that has very, you know, obviously Japanese influence that you might be really into small blocks, big fun. I'm just reading the side here. She's cyma Paulo. She nano block is a micro sized building block, designed in Japan. Since 2008 fun to build attractive to display. Interesting to collect something tells me that Lego was around
before times. Yeah, definitely.
Here's something got a computer and just like do, it's tiny. So it's like a little fun little thing. I got a couple of her friends. Oh man II girlfriend. I built you a himeji castle with nano
block. Thank you. Tim, that's my
favorite. You know how to please me.
All right.
God save us all. All right,
thank you, everyone. This is
everybody.
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