New Health Gadgets, How to Drink Less, AI, & More

This time, we have a very special episode I recorded with my close friend Kevin Rose. 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. This episode is brought to you by: Vanta trusted compliance and security platform: https://vanta.com/tim ($1000 off) Momentous high-quality supplements: https://livemomentous.com/tim (code TIM for up to 35% off) ExpressVPN high-speed, secure, and anonymous VPN service: https://www.expressvpn.com/tim (get 3 or 4 months free on their annual plans) 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 900 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running. Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's free weekly email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/ Follow 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/ [00:00] Start. [00:44] Two old men discuss the importance of regular medical checkups. [07:29] Zen and the art of 32 Sounds. [10:34] Going with the low-poly Flow. [13:49] KevKev goes cleanclean and sober. [20:57] The first rule of AA is you do not talk about AA. [22:15] LEGO bricks (and Nanoblocks) as art for grown-ups. [24:19] Maintaining sobriety with a partner who still drinks. [27:36] Addressing under-the-hood reasons behind addiction with a group. [30:05] TimTim talks Taiwan and tea. [37:45] A Japanese coffee bender. [43:52] An "expresso" intervention. [44:54] Where Americans can get Taiwanese tea if they can't make the trip. [46:10] Kevin's new WHOOP wearable and quantifying health benchmarks/goals. [52:48] I'm getting a new exercise bike because the old one rubbed me the wrong way. [54:16] Kevin keeps COVID and cooties at bay with Profi in his schnozz. [57:09] Sippin' dashi and conquering anxiety with Awareness. [01:01:42] Getting a (Versa) Gripp on eclectic injuries. [01:05:20] Finding magic in the ordinary with Paul Madonna and Hayao Miyazaki. [01:08:36] The Well of Being is back in stock for a reasonable price. [01:09:18] Finding Asian artisanal goods in the US without having to travel. [01:12:08] Squirrels: distracting dogs and humans for millennia. [01:13:29] My personal ups and downs with accelerated TMS. [01:23:57] The current state of consumer-level sleep aid technology. [01:29:24] How full genome sequencing helped Kevin tame a once-insurmountable health issue. [01:31:49] Eyeing traffic at the intersection of AI and life sciences. [01:34:04] Genetic data privacy concerns. [01:38:15] Face to face with my deepfaked side hustler. [01:39:44] Kevin's unsettling AI headphone review experiment and its implications for real humans. [01:42:42] Steps Kevin has taken toward proving he's a real boy. [01:44:05] "You were talking to models — you were just talking to large language models." [01:46:01] Exploding Kittens and I made a game together: Coyote. [01:47:48] When meditation retreats go right (and wrong). [01:55:11] Parting thoughts.

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May 23, 20251h 59mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: May 23, 2025
Duration: 1h 59m
Channel: Tim Ferriss
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

This time, we have a very special episode I recorded with my close friend Kevin Rose. 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. This episode is brought to you by: Vanta trusted compliance and security platform: https://vanta.com/tim ($1000 off) Momentous high-quality supplements: https://livemomentous.com/tim (code TIM for up to 35% off) ExpressVPN high-speed, secure, and anonymous VPN service: https://www.expressvpn.com/tim (get 3 or 4 months free on their annual plans) 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 900 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running. Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's free weekly email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/ Follow 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/ [00:00] Start. [00:44] Two old men discuss the importance of regular medical checkups. [07:29] Zen and the art of 32 Sounds. [10:34] Going with the low-poly Flow. [13:49] KevKev goes cleanclean and sober. [20:57] The first rule of AA is you do not talk about AA. [22:15] LEGO bricks (and Nanoblocks) as art for grown-ups. [24:19] Maintaining sobriety with a partner who still drinks. [27:36] Addressing under-the-hood reasons behind addiction with a group. [30:05] TimTim talks Taiwan and tea. [37:45] A Japanese coffee bender. [43:52] An "expresso" intervention. [44:54] Where Americans can get Taiwanese tea if they can't make the trip. [46:10] Kevin's new WHOOP wearable and quantifying health benchmarks/goals. [52:48] I'm getting a new exercise bike because the old one rubbed me the wrong way. [54:16] Kevin keeps COVID and cooties at bay with Profi in his schnozz. [57:09] Sippin' dashi and conquering anxiety with Awareness. [01:01:42] Getting a (Versa) Gripp on eclectic injuries. [01:05:20] Finding magic in the ordinary with Paul Madonna and Hayao Miyazaki. [01:08:36] The Well of Being is back in stock for a reasonable price. [01:09:18] Finding Asian artisanal goods in the US without having to travel. [01:12:08] Squirrels: distracting dogs and humans for millennia. [01:13:29] My personal ups and downs with accelerated TMS. [01:23:57] The current state of consumer-level sleep aid technology. [01:29:24] How full genome sequencing helped Kevin tame a once-insurmountable health issue. [01:31:49] Eyeing traffic at the intersection of AI and life sciences. [01:34:04] Genetic data privacy concerns. [01:38:15] Face to face with my deepfaked side hustler. [01:39:44] Kevin's unsettling AI headphone review experiment and its implications for real humans. [01:42:42] Steps Kevin has taken toward proving he's a real boy. [01:44:05] "You were talking to models — you were just talking to large language models." [01:46:01] Exploding Kittens and I made a game together: Coyote. [01:47:48] When meditation retreats go right (and wrong). [01:55:11] Parting thoughts.

SPEAKERS

Kevin Rose
guest
Tech entrepreneur and investor, partner at True Ventures.
Tim Ferriss
host
Author and podcaster, host of The Tim Ferriss Show and author of The 4-Hour Body.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Tim Ferriss, featuring Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss, New Health Gadgets, How to Drink Less, AI, & More explores ferriss and Rose on sobriety, wearables, TMS, and AI authenticity Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose trade updates on health monitoring and aging-related checkups, discussing colonoscopies, annual scans, and the psychological challenge of false positives in comprehensive testing.

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