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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Welcome to another wide-ranging "Random Show" episode that I recorded with my close friend Kevin Rose (digg.com)! We cover Kevin's sobriety journey and marking 100 days without alcohol, my results with the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting, GLP-1 agonists, home security, the future of Venture Capital, AI, authenticating yourself online in a world of deepfakes and anonymity, the cultural shift toward human-to-human connection, Roblox, and more. Enjoy!

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Timestamps:

[00:00:00] Start.

[00:06:54] Kevin celebrates 100 days sober! Why and how?

[00:15:16] Nanoblocks: Kevin's new Japanese micro-building hobby.

[00:18:16] The Slow TV movement and Craig Mod's ambient recordings.

[00:20:58] Craving analog experiences and wilderness trekking.

[00:22:24] Writing with background movies.

[00:23:42] High hopes for The Naked Gun reboot.

[00:24:35] Kevin's improved communication since quitting alcohol.

[00:26:28] My health interventions for cognitive protection.

[00:29:00] How ketogenic diet and 16/8 intermittent fasting led to my best lab results in 10+ years.

[00:33:35] Weight control regimens we don't recommend.

[00:39:51] Exogenous ketones: Qitone vs. premium options.

[00:50:32] How glucose tolerance tests work.

[00:51:58] Microdosing GLP-1 (tirzepatide) for glucose control.

[00:54:12] DORA sleep medications and neuroprotective effects.

[00:56:55] Belsomra trial and cost considerations.

[00:57:52] Sauna temperature optimization based on Rhonda Patrick's research.

[01:00:28] There are no biological free lunches.

[01:03:27] The time Kevin found a homeless person in his closet.

[01:06:11] Modern home security and privacy measures.

[01:19:42] Pondering how we survived childhood.

[01:24:23] AI-driven venture capital landscape changes.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, boys and girls. Oh, Duky Hauser, hello boys and girls, ladies and germs, deep baritone.
0:07.1	Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss show. This one is a random show with my good buddy, Kevin Rose. Kevin Rose partner at True Ventures, venture capitalist. Prior to that, incredibly successful, angel investor.
0:20.4	Also, serial entrepreneur, founder of dig.com,
0:23.1	DIGG.com. They are rebooting that. Keep an eye on it. He's doing it with Alexis O'Hannian, co-founder
0:28.7	of Reddit and other folks. So something to watch. We cover a lot in this random show, but before
0:34.3	we get to some topics, I must say, got to do it. Right now, I am launching my first
0:40.4	and ever card game called coyote.cautigame.com. You can find it everywhere. Amazon, Target,
0:46.4	Walmart. It's in 8,000 retail locations. I did this with the geniuses at exploding kittens.
0:52.7	And it's been a labor of love, such a fun project for the last
0:56.7	two years, tested it with 100 plus families, thousands of people now. And it's working. It's going
1:03.5	nuts. So you need some fun. You need some analog. You need some social interaction. You definitely
1:10.1	need more laughs in this crazy chaotic world of ours.
1:13.4	So check out coyotegame.com.
1:15.6	It has 300 million plus views on social of gameplay.
1:20.5	And if inventory is low, stuff is selling out in a lot of places,
1:24.6	just stick around.
1:26.0	There is more and more and more stock flowing
1:28.1	into all the channels, including Amazon. So please check it out, coyotegame.com. And you can watch
1:33.4	some videos right there. You'll see one on social that did 40 million plus by itself. So if you
1:37.7	want to see what that recipe looks like, check it out. And topic-wise, we cover a ton in this episode.
1:43.4	We cover Kevin hitting the 100 days with no drinks and how he did it.
1:47.8	We talk about microdosing GLP-1s, home defense, home self-defense. We talk about the changing landscape of tech and vibe coding.
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