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The Tim Ferriss Show

#812: The Random Show — New Health Gadgets, Tim’s Latest Adventures, How to Drink Less, Zen Retreats, AI + Your Genome, and Colonoscopy Confessions

The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig

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4.617.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

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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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferriss. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss

0:04.4

show, where it's my job to interview world-class performers from every imaginable discipline to tease

0:09.5

out. You guessed it. The habits, routines, favorite books, and so on that you can apply to your

0:13.6

own lives. This time we have a very special episode. This is always a listener favorite, a recording with my close friend Kevin Rose. Kevin Rose,

0:23.5

for those who don't know at Kevin Rose, everywhere. He is indeed a world-class entrepreneur,

0:29.8

serial founder, investor in the smallest of seed rounds up to the largest of companies.

0:35.9

And what we always do, we trade our latest discoveries,

0:38.8

our latest findings, what our friends have sent to us. But first, just a few quick words

0:44.7

from our sponsors who make this show possible. I don't know about you guys, but I have seen

0:51.5

a lot of crazy stuff in the last few weeks.

0:54.3

I saw an AI generated video.

0:57.1

It looks like a video of an otter on a flight, tapping away on a keyboard, having a stewardess

1:03.5

ask him if you would like a drink, and it goes on from there.

1:06.2

And this was generated with AI, and it looks photorealistic, basically. I mean, it would have cost

1:13.0

hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars to do in the past, taken forever, and now it's,

1:18.0

boom, snap of the fingers. It's crazy. So AI is changing everything. We know that it is also

1:22.8

changing the way startups and small businesses operate. Things are going to get crazier. The rate of change is only

1:28.7

going to get faster. And while a lot of good is going to come with that, it also means security and

1:34.3

compliance headaches, for one thing. And that is where today's sponsor, Vanta, comes in.

1:39.3

I'd already heard a lot about them before they ever became a sponsor. Just like 10,000 plus other companies that rely on Vanta,

1:46.7

my friends at Duolingo, shout out Duolingo, and Ramp, shout out Ramp, one of this podcast sponsors

1:51.6

and an ultra-fast growing company, use Vanta to handle security compliance. Why would they do that?

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