Cultural Brews: Tea and Coffee Adventures

Welcome to another wide-ranging "Random Show" episode I recorded with my close friend Kevin Rose (digg.com)! We cover dozens of topics: from the cutting edge of health tech to pro-tips for colonoscopies; AI; adventures in Japan and Taiwan seeking out perfect coffee and tea; tips for drinking less alcohol; powerful documentaries like 32 Sounds and books such as Awareness; the unexpected joys and therapeutic benefits of adult Lego; and much, much more.

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Timestamps:

[00:00:00] Start.

[00:05:13] Two old men discuss the importance of regular medical checkups.

[00:11:47] Zen and the art of 32 Sounds.

[00:14:50] Going with the low-poly Flow.

[00:18:02] KevKev goes cleanclean and sober.

[00:25:10] The first rule of AA is you do not talk about AA.

[00:26:24] LEGO bricks (and Nanoblocks) as art for grown-ups.

[00:28:27] Maintaining sobriety with a partner who still drinks.

[00:31:47] Addressing under-the-hood reasons behind addiction with a group.

[00:35:41] TimTim talks Taiwan and tea.

[00:43:13] A Japanese coffee bender.

[00:48:56] An "expresso" intervention.

[00:50:02] Where Americans can get Taiwanese tea if they can't make the trip.

[00:51:16] Kevin's new WHOOP wearable and quantifying health benchmarks/goals.

[00:57:45] I'm getting a new exercise bike because the old one rubbed me the wrong way.

[00:59:11] Kevin keeps COVID and cooties at bay with Profi in his schnozz.

[01:02:01] Sippin' dashi and conquering anxiety with Awareness.

[01:06:36] Getting a (Versa) Gripp on eclectic injuries.

[01:10:07] Finding magic in the ordinary with Paul Madonna and Hayao Miyazaki.

[01:13:19] The Well of Being is back in stock for a reasonable price.

[01:14:02] Finding Asian artisanal goods in the US without having to travel.

[01:16:49] Squirrels: distracting dogs and humans for millennia.

[01:18:04] My personal ups and downs with accelerated TMS.

[01:28:27] The current state of consumer-level sleep aid technology.

[01:33:47] How full genome sequencing helped Kevin tame a once-insurmountable health issue.

[01:36:16] Eyeing traffic at the intersection of AI and life sciences.

[01:38:30] Genetic data privacy concerns.

[01:42:36] Face to face with my deepfaked side hustler.

[01:44:06] Kevin's unsettling AI headphone review experiment and its implications for real humans.

[01:47:03] Steps Kevin has taken toward proving he's a real boy.

[01:48:23] "You were talking to models — you were just talking to large language models."

[01:50:25] Exploding Kittens and I made a game together: Coyote.

[01:52:06] When meditation retreats go right (and wrong).

[01:59:21] Parting thoughts.

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