The Random Show — Biohacking, Tim’s COVID Experience, Holiday Gift Ideas, Favorite Apps, and More

The Random Show — Biohacking, Tim’s COVID Experience, Holiday Gift Ideas, Favorite New Apps, Bad Science, Quarantine Delights, and a Small Dose of NFTs and DAOs | Brought to you by Tonal smart home gym (https://Tonal.com), LinkedIn Jobs recruitment platform with 770M users (https://LinkedIn.com/tim), and Helix Sleep premium mattresses (https://helixsleep.com/tim). More on all three below. Show notes: https://tim.blog/2021/11/23/the-random-show-biohacking-apps-nft-dao/ Technologist, serial entrepreneur, world-class investor, self-experimenter, and all-around wild and crazy guy Kevin Rose (@KevinRose) rejoins me for another episode of The Random Show. In this one we discuss the recent KevKev and TimTim reunion in Marfa, good television for anyone passing time in quarantine, Kevin’s latest biohacking adventures, utility NFTs (including Kevin’s upcoming PROOF drop), donating cryptocurrency for psychedelic research, ketamine therapy, my COVID experience, holiday gifts, financing and budgeting apps, and much more. Please enjoy! Disclaimers and intro [00:00] Generative art brings us to Marfa, Texas [01:42] What have we been drinking? [7:04] Forays into biohacking. [12:05] Saffron highs [22:29] Bad ideas for conquering COVID, plus good TV [27:48] NFTs for the purpose of membership allocation [35:25] Kevin’s utility NFT announcement [41:32] DAOs and Dilbert discourse [45:50] Kevin's superpowers to how I might best make use of utility NFTs [48:40] .xyz domains and crypto nerds [57:24] My non-profit foundation has entered the crypto world [58:39] Can at-home ketamine treatment work, and is it safe? [1:06:42] My own recent experience with the dreaded COVID [1:11:06] The vaccine’s effect on fertility, and navigating scientific unknowns [1:41:20] Holiday gifts [1:47:30] Kevin’s financing and budgeting tools [1:55:07] Parting thoughts [2:00:37] This episode is brought to you by Tonal, the world’s most intelligent home gym and personal trainer. Tonal uses breakthrough technology—like adaptive digital weights and AI learning—together with the best experts in resistance training so you get stronger, faster. Every program is personalized to your body using AI, and smart features check your form in real time, just like a personal trainer. Try Tonal, the world’s smartest home gym, for 30 days in your home, and if you don’t love it, you can return it for a full refund. Visit https://Tonal.com for $100 off their smart accessories when you use promo code TIM100 at checkout. * This episode is also brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs. LinkedIn screens candidates for the hard and soft skills you’re looking for and puts your job in front of candidates looking for job opportunities that match what you have to offer. Using LinkedIn’s active community of more than 770 million professionals worldwide, LinkedIn Jobs can help you find and hire the right person faster. When your business is ready to make that next hire, find the right person with LinkedIn Jobs. And now, you can post a job for free. Just visit https://LinkedIn.com/Tim. * This episode is also brought to you by Helix Sleep! Helix was selected as the #1 overall mattress of 2020 by GQ magazine, Wired, Apartment Therapy, and many others. Just take their quiz—only two minutes to complete—that matches your body type and sleep preferences to the perfect mattress for you. They have a 10-year warranty, and you get to try it out for a hundred nights, risk free. They’ll even pick it up from you if you don’t love it. And now, to my dear listeners, Helix is offering up to 200 dollars off all mattress orders plus two free pillows at https://HelixSleep.com/Tim. SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/1dSzTkW LINK TO ALL SHOW TRANSCRIPTS: https://tim.blog/2018/09/20/all-transcripts-from-the-tim-ferriss-show/ About Tim Ferriss: Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 500 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running. Connect with Tim Ferriss: Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's free weekly email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/ Visit the Tim Ferriss PODCAST: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Visit the Tim Ferriss BLOG: https://tim.blog/ Follow Tim Ferriss on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/tferriss/ Follow Tim Ferriss on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/ Like Tim Ferriss on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/