#224: The Random Show - Drinking Urine, Exploring Japan, and Figuring Out Life
The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
4.6 • 17.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2017
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Coming to you from a late night in rural Japan, this is a special edition of The Random Show. Per usual for The Random Show, I am joined by Kevin Rose (@KevinRose), serial entrepreneur, world-class investor, and all around wild and crazy guy. We discuss Japan and how to do it cheaply, building apps, urine drinking, love and marriage, beauty and absurdity in 2017, why Kevin doesn't have New Year's resolutions, favorite books, and much more. Enjoy! Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.fourhourworkweek.com/podcast. This podcast is brought to you by iD Commerce + Logistics. I'm asked all the time about how to scale businesses quickly. Rule number one: remove unnecessary bottlenecks. Many businesses can do so by outsourcing inventory management and fulfillment to a company that makes this its primary focus. iD Commerce + Logistics is just such a company. It helps online retailers and entrepreneurs outgrow their competition by handling all types of details -- from inventory to packing and shipping. I depended on iD to handle these types of details when I launched The 4-Hour Chef so I could focus on promoting the book. As a listener of this podcast, you can get up to $10,000 off your start-up fees and costs waived by visiting tim.blog/scale or idcomlog.com/tim. This podcast is also brought to you by Wealthfront. Wealthfront is the future of financial advice. It's become especially popular among my friends in Silicon Valley and across the country because it provides the same high-end financial advice that the best private wealth managers deliver to the ultra wealthy -- but for any account size, at a fraction of the cost. Wealthfront monitors your portfolio every day across more than a dozen asset classes to find opportunities for rebalancing and harvesting tax losses, and now manages more than $5 billion in assets. Unlike old-fashioned private wealth managers, Wealthfront is powered by innovative technology, making it the most tax-efficient, low-cost, hassle-free way to invest. Go to wealthfront.com/tim to take the risk assessment quiz, which only takes 2-5 minutes, and it'll show you -- for free -- exactly the portfolio it would recommend. If you want to just take the advice and do it yourself, you can. Or, as I would, you can set it and forget it. Well worth a few minutes: wealthfront.com/tim. As a Tim Ferriss Show listener, you'll get your first $15,000 managed for free if you decide to go with its services.
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| 0:00.0 | Three hello, my name is Kevin. No, Tim, I'm telling you, I think that if you really focused on |
| 0:07.6 | master baiting, it would, it would just really help you out. |
| 0:14.3 | You need to start your own milk company. |
| 0:17.2 | Milk. |
| 0:18.0 | Milk duds. |
| 0:18.6 | I've been telling you, milk duds are the future. |
| 0:22.7 | Milk duds are the future. |
| 0:24.5 | Milk duds dot code dot NZ everybody checking out. |
| 0:28.0 | Milk duds. |
| 0:29.3 | optimal minimal. |
| 0:31.0 | Like this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking. |
| 0:35.6 | Can I ask you a personal question? |
| 0:37.6 | Now I just sit in a perfect time. |
| 0:39.6 | What if I can be out for some? |
| 0:41.3 | I'm a cybernetic organism living this show on metal and the sky. |
| 0:47.1 | Far as show. |
| 0:53.0 | This episode is brought to you by athletic greens. |
| 0:56.0 | I get asked all the time what I would take if I could only take one supplement. |
| 1:00.5 | The answer is invariably athletic greens. |
| 1:03.4 | I view it as all-in-one nutritional insurance. |
| 1:05.8 | I recommended it, in fact, in the four hour body. |
| 1:08.4 | This is more than 10 years ago and I did not get paid to do so. |
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