The Random Show — 2025 Predictions (AI, Aliens, BTC, and More), New Year’s Resolutions, and More

I think it is tourism dude I think you're right it could be tourism and the ones that wreck are like the ones that you hear about in Africa when people go on the safaris and they have too many drinks and they just like [ __ ] crash into a rhinocerus and then like get eaten or whatever some of these aliens are coming down here and it has to be something like that they've had a few bevs and they just they just [ __ ] wreck their [ __ ] it's like Teenage alien DUIs yeah exactly

yeah where' Glo Glo go [ __ ] yeah he's gone to Earth again right so did he drink uh took a [Music] few Kev Kev nice to see you Tim Tim happy holidays brother happy holidays another random Show Ladies and Gentlemen boys and girls brought to you by Kev Kevin timtim happy holidays everyone it is that time of the year it is and can I say where you are because you're not in a holiday place you're in Hawaii right I'm not in a in a place with great seasonal variety but I am in a place

with wonderful sun and warmth which is Hawaii is it good it's amazing of course it's amazing you seem very chill right now I am chill right now I'm feeling very good and there are a bunch of reasons for that that I could talk about we'll get to that but there are some contributing elements that you're actually very familiar with so we'll come back to that but I've had more comments in the last week or two from close friends of mine people who know me are like you seem really chill you see very grounded right now

and I'm like yeah I feel very chill and very grounded right now and there's still a lot going on I love that it's not for absence of things going on it's actually somewhat amazing that given how many projects are in process right now I'm getting those comments which makes me feel like I must be doing something right or I'm just lucky because who knows I'm sleeping well in Hawaii could be that set the AC to like negative 500 Degrees which I had to override every system in the hotel to do yeah they have those things

un locked down and then if you open the door it shuts the AC off it's like it's a whole thing yeah oh the chill yeah it's 70 degrees would be dangerously cold so it's sometimes hard to get the AC low but let's hop into it man we have a lot to talk about where should we begin oh man let's start off with when I think about these year-end specials we've done a few of these and we typically do a little bit of what are you doing in the new year you know like to change this

year and it's the same list every year for me drink glass exercise more exactly exactly but we'll talk about that but there's you know there's a lot of stuff I thought some predictions would be fun because I have some good ones for next year super fun and then whatever else you want to talk about yeah you're the right guy for that I might have some predictions but you have a better track record than I do I you've got a few right I mean I occasionally get one right it's not that my track record is bad

I think you have such a 30,000 foot view on so many different sectors and also just as a general partner at true and as a more active investor than yours truly you get to see a lot that is coming down the pike yeah right you really get to observe patterns on a weekly basis that most humans do not including me but I do see things occasionally so we'll we'll see what if I can riff off of some of your predictions so where would you like to start let's start off with something that I just thought

was a fun one to just really get your take on this because I think we're screwing up Society so every year Apple does these like hey you're the 15 apps that we love this is the best gaming app this is the best productivity app all this stuff right and and I tend to go in there and poke around and I'm always checking out you know what the new hot thing is especially on the gaming side or stuff where I really just don't pay attention I'm like just tell me the best thing I'll go check it

out right yeah and I noticed one thing then I keep seeing this over and over and it's driving me nuts because it dovetails into some of the videos that we send each other on a side thread oh God okay so we've sent a couple of these videos back and forth you mean the mutually assured destruction threads we could say Saka these are more civilized okay got it yeah yeah so like you mean Saka will be like Trading text this is one of those threads I don't know this one's that bad but we've been on some

some threads where there's a lot of pics going around nothing horrible but definitely I'll move on from there so there's basically these new AI videos of like MMA fighters yeah and they'll get like knocked out and when they fall to the ground they like get in go-karts and [ __ ] and start driving around have you seen this where they like blend AI yeah I've seen them it's messing with my head I look at that stuff and I'm like this is really bending reality I don't know if it's because there's a psychedelics kind of component

there where you're like why am I seeing something that I would typically see in a different realm in this realm like weird stuff's happening in the brain but one of the things I noticed in the App Store is they said the best app of the year was a Adobe app which you know they make great stuff and they had Adobe Lightroom on there as winning the Apple App Store 2024 winner Mac app of the year and why they were so stoked on Lightroom when you think about Lightroom you're like oh this is like software that's

been around for like you know a couple decades why is this anything new and they had a video there that showed these kids running around in their backyard and you've seen this thing where like you can like erase [ __ ] you know like you can like drag your finger across Google does all these ads where they're like hey is there someone weird standing in your photo like erase them dude this video we've gone too far they're like these kids playing in the backyard and there was like Hedges and then they erased the their like

yard door to get out of their backyard and like it made more Hedges and I was just like can you imagine these kids are like 35 or 40 and they're like looking back in their photos and they're like do we have like a backyard door and they took the dog out and [ __ ] I'm like why are you taking the dog out the dog's part of the family just like sewing the seeds for gaslighting yourself later no but do you know what I mean like what is going on they're racing all of our real

memories and replacing them with like almost imperceivable at this point digital Alternatives yeah and it's really worrisome to me I don't know do you do any of this [ __ ] do you erase anybody out of your photos I don't erase people out of my photos I also feel like a lot of that editing is for sharing outside of your immediate circle like Social Media stuff social media or effectively applying digital plastic surgery to your life so you can share highlights that look better than they actually do in real life and I am very cautious

to play with that because I feel like it's similar to getting your first little dabble with eye tucks or face lift yeah and then there's this creeping tendency to add more and more and more and more and similarly I don't want to become delusionally dissatisfied with my life because there are little things that in my mind's eye aren't perfect for broadcast like a door in the hedges right right because then what happens when you're doing that constantly and then you sit in your backyard and you're looking at that door does it drive you insane right

when it really shouldn't and then also but think of the downstream effects too where your friends are like okay you just take something that is a mild visual nuisance out of the equation and it's like oh they had that perfect beat shot they are so lucky if only I could have that thing and then you go and you're like oh it was crowded we didn't have the same thing they did but in reality they just Magic Eraser all their friends or all the people behind them out of it I'm just like it's creating a fake

everything I don't know there's something about it I love AI I think there's a lot of fun there's so much I use it for every single day but this is one of those things where I'm just like I don't want my kids to grow up thinking they need Perfection yeah and that's what this is doing it's creating a better scene you know oh yeah I mean people are already using that to of course I mean it's like Zoom filters on steroids right right totally and I think I'll just throw this in there not sure exactly

what form this is going to take but I do think there will be a pendulum swing away from certain digital environments when people realize just how contorted constant Expos exposure will make your perception your satisfaction your dopamine reward system I really feel like the impact is going to be felt in a way that people could perhaps rationalize way or brush aside in years past we're like well I know that Twitter's assess pool on X Y and Z levels but I get a B and C but once people are put into environments where what's up is

down what's left is right what's fake is real and what's real is fake yeah the psychological toll the emotional toll I think will become much harder to dismiss and people are going to look for things offline I think there are going to be a lot of opportunities for that you see that in I think you see early indications of that with for instance like running clubs and various in real life activities that have become very popular in place of or as supplements to online dating and dating apps as an example yeah like those things are

exploding in New York City a lot of major cities you see that in potentially certainly this is a trend at least in a few countries outside of the US I'd have to look at the data I think it's mildly true we see some improving numbers in print book sales that could be attributed to a number of other factors outside of people moving from digital formats to print but at least as a thought exercise I think we can explore different ways in which people are going to seek out something tangible they can hold and know is

real look at in person and know is real so that's certainly extrapolating from just what I see in a sort of small circle of people who are hyper exposed to a lot of this I feel like people like you who are perhaps way let's call it like prematurely saturated with exposure to these things are canaries in the cold like o holy [ __ ] like we need an exit we need a way to step off the stage so we're not looking at this manufactured reality yeah it's funny you say that I was I was talking

to another friend of mine that's deep in this stuff you know Chris Hutchins I was talking to him about raising daughters and the kids are getting older and he's like dude he's like you know what's funny he like when we got bullied as kids somebody would be like you know I hooked up with your mom or whatever right and it would just be like there're like the schoolyard slams or whatever right and like now in like 3 years he be like I hooked with your mom look at this video and like the mom hooking up

with the kid cuz it's Ai and [ __ ] he be like damn like you're hooking up with Mom you know but it won't be real but it'll be like the slams it's going to look real enough yeah it'll look real enough like it's the bowling is going to get hardcore yeah yeah of course it will or just yeah sharing videos of the person you want to bully doing things they didn't do right exactly it's going to get bad yeah and there are plenty of upsides I mean look I've used Chad GPT and Claud like

10 to 15 times today with my team I'm doing a company offsite here in Maui that's why I'm in Maui and there are reasons for the location we can get into but it's very useful but the dose makes the poison the application also makes the poison and it pays to just be cognizant of how you are using these things yeah right so that's one all right what else you got are there any personal New Year's resolutions that come to mind or specific ones where you're like okay some of these might rhyme with things in the

past but here's how I'm going to approach them differently oh man okay so the exasperated exhale is always a good place to start well I mean the hard thing for me is that like I get into this really bad situation where come November mhm I just like let myself go yeah of course it happens every single year I just go ham on [ __ ] and like Thanksgiving comes around and I hate like too much nutmeg it's like or not nutmeg but eggnog nutmeg too like so you know what I can't stand cloves let's talk

about cloves for minut ex no but like but I do like a little eggnog with a little that Brandy in there you know you put in a little conac and your eggnog and so like but that goes straight to your gut you know of course it does and so I hate this cuz this is like the freaking seventh year of random shows or whatever where it's like every December it's like I want to be less fat and drink less and it's like you know I get a good running start on the new year though so

I I am going to go into this maybe we'll put together like a compilation music video oh yeah of all the times we've said that over like 10 years I I'm not going to drink yeah exactly so I think I'm just going to lean into it and do the exact opposite just keep eating and just keep drinking no I'm just kidding I'm just kidding that's horrible no but I think one of the things that you and I were trading links on a couple days ago which I'm really curious to get your take on this is

like yeah there's like this movement well not movement it's called it's movement but it's old people movement of like we used to like you know you and I when we first met the name of the game as broy as this might sound is like we wanted to put muscle mass on Mead Central yeah yeah like not wouldn't say full Meathead but there was a good amount of meat there it was pretty Meathead so to transition from Meathead to like somebody that actually just wants to like like stretch yeah and do do like functional stuff like

we were talking about functional patterns because you know it was an account that I had followed for a while and they had some kind of more non-traditional ways of approaching you know your gate and your movement and really setting you hopefully up for you know years of good solid longevity in terms of joint health back Health you know all these things and I sent you another one that you were checking out as well what's been your take here because I'm starting to make this move into like okay I want a lot of movement and a

lot of kind of like core plus plus strength I'd love to be lean I don't need to be ripped although did you see the new Hugh Jackman Wolverine with Deadpool yeah of course he's a beast yeah do you think that was freaking animated or was that really H Jackman's body at the stage I think it's really him that's insane how could freaking beat that age I have on pretty good authority that that is him yeah dude how does he get cut like that it was insane he takes it seriously follows the basics follows the rules

doesn't waver he's very dedicated and he is a real athlete I mean you watch him move he moves like a dancer he can lift like a powerlifter his Endurance on sick on a rower like a concept to is unbelievable like the wattage that he can sustain over periods of time would Boggle the mind H of even some people who have been former competitive rowers he is a true athlete so that explains it so anyway but my point being is that like this little micr Trend I see occurring where a lot of people are making this

move to more functional holistic kind of movement based health and strength and training that is non-traditional as we Define it where do you see that playing into your own routine is that something that you're looking into yeah I've thought about this a lot so our texts were well timed and I want to give credit where credit is due first to you for introducing me to this account and then I ended up doing a bunch of research on this account that I did not tell you about so I will probably pronounce the name incorrectly and for

that I apologize but I believe his name is Ina inyang now the spelling on that will be more accurate than my pronunciation but NS I M A that's probably all you need to find him on YouTube inyang i n y a n g so Ina has this video which you sent to me called the LI of traditional strength training now yes that is YouTube clickbait on one hand but he actually does deliver on that his production value is incredible his delivery is impeccable I was very very impressed I went back and watched certain sections of

this his agility too just insane his agility is incredible in terms of power he a Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor as well at a very very high level I think he won worlds or Masters Worlds at brown belt most recently he's now a black belt which is no joke and I reached out to a friend of mine Mark Bell who is very well known in the powerlifting Community he also has a number of products that have done very very well and I met I realized in SEMA at Super super training gym in Sacramento like a decade ago

oh crazy when he was still really focused on powerlifting met him very very briefly I'm almost 100% confident I remember he was doing deadlift band polls while I was there checking out the gym for the first time this was a long time ago so I chatted with Mark about Ena who Mark reinforced is the real deal on every possible level and the piece that I took from that video specifically was paying attention to what he calls and others have called the spinal engine and there's a book actually by that title the spinal engine the name

again tough one I think it's Serge grovy s r g and we'll put a link in the show notes but in effect I'll actually pull this up because I think it's worth reading so the spinal engine and you can watch the video and see does a great job with video of explaining this but the book has in its Amazon description and there's no digital version you have to buy paperback for like 115 bucks so I'm not saying you should I haven't read it but this book deals with the human spine with particular emphasis on the

lumbar spine human gate is traditionally believed to be the exclusive function of the legs or say The Swinging of the arms and the legs which play a part but going back to the description the book presents arguments and data that challenge that belief it proposes that the spine is the primary engine that makes us move and it goes on and on and what I think Ina does such a nice job of is showing that demonstrating the implications of that theory through video and also using tools like rope swings and other things to demonstrate how you

can develop Mobility through different planes of motion yeah right so you have various things lateral flexion you have flexion extension in terms of this type of forward backward plan and it really got me thinking and I started experimenting with some of the Motions in that video primarily because his counter example which is effectively the LIE of traditional strength training is how if you're constantly bracing you're constantly say holding your breath in certain portions of a lift to increase inter abdominal pressure that ultimately as a side effect you can produce a lot of rigidity in the

spine mhm and I really have never had an interest in being a powerlifter or even an Olympic weightlifter although I think they should more accurately be called powerlifters I've always been focused on weight training in service of athleticism and I have loved playing sports have traditionally competed a lot and I may actually compete in 2025 in some form of sport I I would like to have something on the calendar for that a number of cautionary notes and then I'll come back to how I'm thinking about maybe framing exercise for myself the first is that you

should not go from all [ __ ] up and broken and stiff to I'm going to do the most exaggerated rotational movements possible yeah in or pulling a sled backwards in this compromised rounded back position you will break yourself if you do that so I think the name of the game is micro progressions and Progressive resistance but being very very smart about it because as you have experienced certainly as I have experienced as you get older and you accumulate injuries it takes a lot longer to heal and sometimes those things do not heal completely no

matter what you do it's funny I got one of those splitz machines where you can like put your legs in there and then you crank a wheel oh the Chuck Norris special yeah yeah I had like the Chuck Norris thing on the outside but like I was doing it and I was getting further and further and further each week and my Plies instructor was like what the hell are you doing and I'm like I'm going to do the splits in like a couple months and she's like you have no supporting muscles at all for any

of this she's like when you get done you'll go down once and then you won even be able to like everything else will rip you know and I was like oh [ __ ] that's good good call I'm glad I didn't take it that far yeah good point so for me I am focused on a few things and I've actually made a lot of progress with this over the last handful of months and in 2025 I will be very focused on this for the first two months of the year I'll be focused on skiing so

I'll be in the mountains for two months and that is a great motivator to develop say different types of stability and strength single leg lifts and so on so good yeah and having that context in which to test myself right so if I'm carving in One Direction and then in the other say the inside leg is very unstable for some reason it's chattering a lot well that's something to fix the skiing serves as a fun assuming you don't overdo it and blow yourself apart diagnostic tool for bringing to awareness some of these things you need

to work on and I'd say priorities these aren't necessarily in ranked order but number one as you get older you lose muscle mass you just do and that's age related muscle loss sarcopenia is directly correlated to any number of issues I'm sure including all cause mortality so weight train tring resistance training building muscle mass is an undeniable priority for Functional Health span as you get older yeah but for me that means compound movements once or twice a week you really don't need to overdo it or do it five days a week a lot of people

use five days a week or every day as an excuse to not get started you can make a lot of progress especially if you haven't done much weight training with with one day one session per week if you're using say high-intensity training one set to failure type protocol I recognize it's very simple I recognize there are some very experienced athletes who will say well no you want to do five sets of three or five sets of five or whatever it might be with three to five minute rest intervals in between to replenish the creatine phosphate

da d da da but complexity can be the enemy of execution as Tony Robbins and others say a lot and it's like just scale down to what you can do if you're starting an exercise habit if that means you go to the gym every day and you do 5 minutes on a treadmill make the bar low enough that you can clear it and you are not tempted to make excuses right let me ask you a question if you're like okay I don't want to be a meathead but I want a little muscle mass so I

want like some tone some definition a little bit of muscle mass you know and I've seen I've seen the pros and cons of one set to failure and the data around it it seems to be that it's good but not as good as has multiple sets of failure for a single muscle group would you say that you believe that to be true or are you doing one set to failure with like if you're doing bicep let's take bicep for example if you're doing one set to failure are you doing several exercises on the bicep one

set to failure or you just talking about like you're just doing hammer curls until you fail and that's it for biceps a day so I would actually let's just take skiing as an example right so my priority is going to be skiing and there are actually a few other sports I'll be training for at the same time so I will be a busy busy boy for the first two months of the year which is great because I'll need to lose all this fat that I accumulated over Thanksgiving and Christmas cuz I know those Danish butter

cookies that my mom bought at Costco are just waiting for me everybody's got their thing I know it I know they're sitting there the one set to failure or multiple sets to failure training to failure can inhibit your ability to train something sport specific like skiing if you overdo it for instance I would not even though you could pack on tons of muscle doing 20 rep set to failure for squats if you do that and then you try to go skiing the next two or three days you're G to be garbage from a fine motor

control perspective But to answer your question directly I don't I have not looked at the most recent data on any of this I'm not sure there exists data comparing these in meaningful ways that do not bias towards one method or another I have volunteered to be a participant a subject in certain weightlifting trials I'm not going to mention the University because I don't want to throw them under the bus but when I went in there the protocol required us to do 10 reps of bench press for X number of sets and I went in there

and you'd see one guy get on the bench because there's a circuit right they're trying to make use of basically an Open Class period for volunteers you'd see one person who's basically dropping the weight onto his chest at a risk of breaking every one of his ribs and bouncing it off oh jeez like those terrible form terrible form very very very little time under tension and then you'd see someone else who's doing like 2 seconds up 4 seconds down pause at the chest those are not the same 10 repetitions right yeah 100% time under tension

is completely different yeah so I think garbage in garbage out for a lot of these studies so I don't weigh them too heavily but what I will say is if you are reasonably novice even intermediate for training and by the way if you've been training for a bunch of years and you haven't made a lot of progress I would consider you novice right if you do a single set to concentric failure per exercise and I'll come back and then answer the what type of exercise and so on that that you asked MH you will see

excellent results and there may be some incremental gain from doing multiple sets but it's going to dig into your recovery ability H so you're saying one set Y and now let me tell you what the one set means yeah yeah yeah exactly that's what I was going to get to what the one set means and I've gone back to all of my books kind of function this way like all of my books are sort of reference books for myself right like I go around I I gather these best practices that I've tested and then I

refer back to them so in the case of say the 4-Hour Body the aam's protocol and a handful of compound movements still does the trick for the vast majority of the population I'm sure people are going to take issue with this but I have now like hundreds of thousands millions of people who have tried these things and I've seen the success study like it does work yes it's simple yes it could be more sophisticated it is idiot proof for a reason if I go into lift I'm not going to be doing direct bicep work I'm

going to be doing something like a seated row and then a pull down and if I'm hitting the back from a few different angles that's it I might honestly just do one of those like I might do one compound pulling movement one compound pressing movement and then one or two to leg movements that's the whole workout the whole workout should take less than 20 minutes yeah people say what about warm-up sets well if you're tracking your progress well you're using the same equipment and you're lifting at a slow cadence this is key the first handful

of reps effectively function as your warmup now what I'll often do is take like 30% of the target working weight that I'm going to use for my onet to failure and I'll do three four five reps just to make sure my joints aren't flared up that I'm not feeling any pain and then I would have say an a workout and a b workout so let's just say hypothetically I'm making this up but you might have something like a close grip bench press close grip incline bench press right to just avoid issues with your shoulders let's

just say then you have pull Downs like close grip supinated so Palm facing you pull downs and then a leg press or split squats holding dumbbells on either side so you're also hitting your traps in that one right that's your whole workout wait one thing we didn't cover that I think is really important is you say one set to failure but what's your target reps here are you going like you know some people say lift heavy and do 8 to 10 some people say go a little bit lighter get to 20 to where you fail

at 20 like what are you aiming for here for safety purposes and again everybody's got a [ __ ] opinion with this stuff but use something akin to a super slow protocol which is like 5 Seconds up 5 Seconds down and then you can do 6 to 10 reps okay but I wouldn't increase the weight until you get to like an 8 to 10 rep range you can increase that for the legs blah blah blah blah blah but I wouldn't make it complicated I would say 5 Seconds up 5 Seconds down that's 1 1,00 2

1,000 slow mhm and let's call it 6 to 10 reps to failure but I would just then continue to say and positive or concentric failure means you're on the in the case of the pull down the pulling motion this is when the muscle is overlapping and shortening in the case of the leg press let's just say or the squats it would be when you're pushing out not when you're lowering in the case of the Clos grip bench press it would be when you're lifting the weight up that's the positive portion then you get to the

point where you stick you can't move it all right push for another 10 seconds as hard as you can try to move it a millimeter at a time and then lower for 10 seconds you're done and then you have to log the entire workout it's not hard to do you need to take notes if you don't take notes you're not going to make the progress you want to make and then the second workout just to again hypothetical doesn't really matter that much as long as it's safe and it's a compound movement you're doing it to

failure you're going to make progress so let's just say that your shoulders are healthy enough to do this you could be like overhead press or a military press mhm and I'm equipment agnostic people can argue about free weights versus machines my position now is like whatever is safest yeah and whatever you can do consistently so if you're traveling a lot then hire a personal trainer or a powerlifter someone with very good technique to coach you on how to use free weights because those are going to be uniform around the country or around the world instead

of equipment which is going to be highly variable yeah so on the next one might be like overhead press or seated overhead press then we already did the pull down so maybe it's a seated row or a bent row with a bar with a barbell then for legs we already did I think I was talking about split squats with dumbbells so maybe at this time it's leg press I have for instance my right leg is 1.1 CM I had full leg X-Rays done a year ago because a number of doctors thought I was full of

[ __ ] with this and I was like I really think one leg is longer than the other I've looked at it a number of different ways my right leg is about like femur length right is8 cm to 1.1 CM I did takes of xrays so what happens if I'm doing say a back squat is it introduces rotational force and that is how I initially turned my mildly bad back pain into really acute horrifying back pain that has persisted now for two years or so I've made a lot of progress and I can talk about

what's contributed to that actually an experiment recently with stem cells seem to be delivering some very interesting results I'm not ready to recommend any Laboratories related to the production or harvesting of the stem cells nor any clinics so I want to wait until I see more longitudinal results for myself but the early indications are very positive and the tldr on that is that uh decided to I did not want to inject anything intradiscal I didn't want to puncture any discs and there are many reasons for that I've spoken to a lot of spine mechanic experts

and so on it seems that the long-term risk of having some type of issue with your disc yeah or a rupture is higher if you ever puncture the disc so I didn't want to do that yeah and rather than do that because my pain is localized to like the SI joint and L4 L5 where I do have a bunch of structural issues we did something maybe a little unorthodox in a sense and there's something called the ilol lumbar ligament and you have two of them and people can look this up but I used to think

and I do still think this like you're you're effectively as old as your joints feel mhm right I really think there's something to that especially when you throw your back out and you're like [ __ ] you've never felt older in your life than when you have to crawl to your bed on your hands and knees because your back is thrown out yeah or lay on your bed or like you have to constantly fidget cuz your back is bothering you yes where I've started to think there may be for me some interesting interventions because what

we did is we did an injection I mean the needle's huge that's like 5 to 8 in long but an injection in the SI joint but then also bathing the didn't want an injection directly into the ligament just because I I couldn't take the recovery time for that but to bathe around the ligament with these these stem cells msc's and within literally within a day I felt relief in that area wow so it raises questions for me around how you diagnose back pain or look at structural issues and what's visible versus less visible so in

other words when you look at back pain often times you do imaging you look at the spine and you fixate on the facet joints and the vertebral bodies and the segments and so on and if you're you're over the age of 40 your back's going to look [ __ ] in some way like it's that's not going to look great like as you get older just like you get wrinkles on your face like your back is going to show degenerative changes Almost 100% especially if you've done any lifting or athletic anything and what is less

obvious though is the health or inflammation associated with some of these ligaments so I've become super interested based on my recent experience in the and I know friends from friction massage who have seen tremendous back pain relief what is friction massage you could use like a goua tool there are different ways to do it is it like cupping and [ __ ] like where they break the fascia up yeah it's like a rapid pressure movement back and forth so you could use a gacha tool it's probably going to be too big for this particular area

probably using manual therapy but I have friends who have seen incredible relief and what appears to be the case is that if I address those ligaments a lot of my low back pain goes away now the contrast between my right side which was treated and my left side which was untreated but my left side I considered the healthy side I now realize it's actually in a lot of pain so what I may do because you have to take with this I'm part of a clinical trial and you have to take a six-month break between stem

cells for a host of reasons I may actually do PRP PL rich plasma on that left side we'll see get the vampire face while you're at it I'll get a yeah two for one vampire facial while I'm there get the package deal yeah so hopefully that helps and we only talked about one aspect of how I'm thinking about health which is the muscle mass for me since I am doing the skiing training and other things I will probably not do extended sets to failure because it'll inhibit my training I will probably do something in the

order of more like the three to5 rep range still doing it slowly enough that I feel like it is very under control nothing ballistic I'm going to get plenty of ballistic and dynamic movements from the skiing itself one question on the recovery side you know is back in the day it was like one gram of protein per pound of body weight to get you know any type of muscle growth yeah what's your current regimen look like for something like this cuz I mean you're not going for massive gains here so it's not like it'd be

perfect but are you still getting adequate protein are you putting a lot of protein in there when you're doing these training days yeah I will I mean especially because I'll basically be training at the gym at night before dinner and I will be skiing and taking very serious technical lessons and trying some pretty gnarly stuff for me in terms of reasonably intense training like flips and [ __ ] or no no no no not that intense no you doing halfpipe no not halfpipe I'm just talking about like bumps and Backcountry stuff oh back country stuff

yeah and also like ski touring I'll be skinning basically you work your way up the mountain and then you ski down and stuff so it's going to be physically intensive I'll also be eating quite a lot of carbs but but probably I will almost certainly get at least one gram of protein per pound body weight yeah I don't think that's Overkill all right and I'll show you one more thing that's kind of fun yeah I've been looking very closely at this I don't feel comfortable promoting any Brands yet because I have some technical questions but

I have been experimenting with something called the acronym is lus l i c s which is so I've got this holy [ __ ] what is this and then another one over here if you're not seeing the video it looks like he's part cyborg now yeah I've got these patches with electrodes and cables coming off and then you set how many hours you want on this thing and it is low intensity continuous ultrasound is this why you're so chill right now what's going on what is this thing doing no no no this is not why

I'm so chill I mean who knows I don't think so this is a device that safely administers low intensity ultrasound over a period of 1 to 4 hours per site of treatment so I currently have two of these coupling patches one on the front of my shoulder one at the rear of the shoulder I have a bunch of tendonitis around the insertion points of the infraspinatus oh so this has nothing to do with your Hawaii trip no no no this is this I've been playing with this for about a month it's not like for swimming

or talking to dolphins no no this is for recovery but all also the low tensity continuous ultrasound so like is l i us you can find a lot of interesting studies on this and I'll mention a site I don't know if I mentioned it before but consensus. apppp which uses AI to assess published literature from reputable journals to determine if something is a thumbs up thumbs down or inconclusive so you could put something in like is there any evidence that low intensity continuous ultrasound with tissue remodeling or whatever Sports recovery and you you'll you'll get

an answer it's not perfect but it's actually very helpful to get an initial indication but this stuff part of what I find interesting about this is unlike some other types of say for instance electrical stimulation like there are tens units that you can use that will effectively reduce pain by and this is not the scientific description but they're effectively overriding your nerves or overstimulating your nerves with certain frequencies to turn off or mute the pain signaling that's not what this is doing this technology seems to actually help with tissue Remodeling and proliferation of different growth

factors and I really remember the first time I used this within an hour this acute pain in my shoulder just vanished crazy now could that be Placebo like could be Placebo what's the cost on this it's not cheap yeah which is why most people go into a clinic to use something like this but they get you with the razor blades approach right so the device itself who knows but these coupling patches are very expensive so to get if I'm using it once a day or twice a day I've been using it a lot it's like

10 grand for 2 months oh Jesus it's expensive how much are the patches like a grand to pop one box of four I think it's 4444 so it'd be like 16 patches something like 900 bucks it's very expensive damn it's crazy but but look there are some people out there for whom this will be Out Of Reach but you may be able to find a clinic where you could do this on sort of an as needed basis who knows once a week there may be some minimum Cadence necessary to see the results that you would

want but there are also people out there for whom this may make sense and hopefully as this technology and you've seen this happen a million times so IFI as it becomes more popular as the technology gets more developed as there's more competition the price drops tremendously you know what's funny is like I've seen in podcast you know you and I been part of this where like you'll mention something that's like three grand or whatever or something crazy and there like well that Tim [ __ ] rich guy can afford all these things blah blah blah

but honestly what happens that I think is so beautiful about this stuff is if you can get the higher-end folks to like that want to go and experiment at the edges here that have the disposable income they're doing nothing but dropping the prices for the masses cuz they have to R up production over time yeah totally It's funny I've seen this happen so many times even drugs stuff as well like when I first started taking Rath as a as an alternative to cholesterol meds like and it wasn't covered out of pocket it was like $2,500

a month yeah it was like ridiculous and now Amazon has it for 500 that's no insurance you know and it's like it just it takes time for these things to come down and hit the masses and and with those V2 Max machines too that you can get at home now I don't know if you messed around with those I just got one of those and it's insane it's same but it's great cuz you say you don't have to go to the clinic and you can save the time and then eventually these will be less expensive

for everyone yeah we've seen it with Uber right Uber black in the beginning yeah was definitely kind of a 1center thing but it subsidized the development of Uber X I mean that was jet travel though as well Tesla same thing right there I mean there many many examples I would say I'll give people some recommendations that are not expensive at all which I'm equally focused on actually more focused on like this is a nice bonus and I'm still experimenting with it jury's out right it seems to be very helpful but I want to see longer

term there is a chapter in and I'll see if I can share some of this I'll put a link in the show notes for people I'll share at least some of this there's a chapter in the 4-Hour Body called reversing permanent injuries I will link to it for folks but the exercises in that still deliver so much like the bang for the buck in doing some of the gray cook exercises the chop and lift with cable machines the Turkish Get Up even if you're just doing the first portion of that on the ground for shoulder

health I mean there's so many benefits to a handful of exercises in terms of injury prevention yeah and you have to invest in that stuff as you get older if you want to be active if you want to be athletic your body just does not have the elasticity and the regenerative ability that it used to mhm and that for instance part of the reason I I went back to that chapter is that the the chop and lift exercise have a have a slow undercontrol rotational component that I felt was not dynamically but still compatible with

getting me closer to developing or redeveloping the spinal engine that in SEMA inyang talks about I was like okay look let me take small safe steps towards incorporating some very mild rotational exercises MH and that's where I'm starting that's awesome feels good feels great and I'm doing it first thing in the morning wake up cold brew coffee right now and then Hawaiian coffee is incredible so I this is this has been my re-entry we can after my 30 40 days of abstinence yeah like wake up immediately have a cold brew and then go to the

gym that's a big shot like Kai coffee is no joke that's like like some strong stuff it's so good it's delicious some my favorite coffee on the planet there's something about like how just dark and dense and it feels very nutrient rich like antioxidant Rich to me you know yeah it's good stuff the Kaa coffee is good it's just so delicious too all right so we get a few other predictions and fun things yeah yeah let's do it I mean we got tons I just gave TED Talks so you should let her rip yeah so

I'll just do I'll do some rapid fire fun stuff here so damp January I'm going to drink a six less drinks per month uh moving on to investment ran through that one well listen uh the drinking thing well I'm I actually am cutting back a ton you know I'm not drinking tonight look at that look at that hey baby steps baby steps all right so one of the things I've realize especially as you get older is that as life gets more complex there has to be this kind of continual especially as you have kids and

other things there's this continual re-evaluating of your processes and how to make them like every year how can you turn down the knob and and automate more things than you had the previous year just for my own sanity or eliminate more things too yes yes and so in that theme I've gotten really simple on the investing front like the vast majority of my exposure is at true Ventures where we take a lot on a lot of risk that's what we do for our day job I'm using I'm going to try a new app called Monarch

it's not new but it's been around for a while for track my finances and finally get a budget under control starting January you've been using it right for a bit yeah I've been using it it's great what do you like about it so there's a couple of Mount there that I I really like I like for like holistic net worth just where am I in the world there's a bunch of tools out there projection lab is good where am I in the world meaning like big picture what does my whole thing look like yeah exactly

and so I would say that projection lab is good kind of looking where you're spending in terms of how soon can I retire and what of my retirement look like and planning for different scenarios I think that's probably the best app out there what was it called projection lab okay and then I would say that copilot has always been my favorite on mobile but Monarch is now just it ties together all my accounts in a view that I think is more data Rich especially on the budgeting side than co-pilot so I've kind of started to

move over to Monarch more full-time mhm which is great and so yeah I mean those those two and then gosh I'm drawing a blank of the the last one for the kind of like overview of everything they're going to kill me because it's a fantastic app PornHub premium what's that PornHub premium exactly there's Tim he's back he's back everybody now I can't even blame it on the booze yeah exactly before you were like I'm H do you actually buy their premium no no no no you would answer even if you did this seems like Overkill

yeah I'll sh my public favorites yeah exactly pornhub.com timtim 20 20% off kubera is my overview app that I think is the best for like tracking off kind of your your larger Investments and like overall net worth what was the name no wonder you forgot it kubara KU u b r a i love kubara I think it's it's really high quality software so anyway that's that so let me just go quickly down the investment front vti because it gives you Global exposure like I I love that I get the total stock market index there it's

Vanguard it's low cost I want to have the majority of my stuff in there I have moved my crypto allocation to 10% of overall net worth from about four to 5% and just Bitcoin though did you increase it or is that just reflective of an increase in value no I increased it you bought more yes I've been buying more for the last few months okay I had this feeling that Trump was going to win and I started buying more crypto when I had that gut feeling just because I I think that he's going to push

a massive crypto agenda and I I believe that if this is the probably in the more prediction side I think in the next couple of years we're going to see for the very first time the US government is going to start adding crypto to our reserves I think we'll will treat it as a currency that we hold no reserves and when that happens it's going to be nuts I think we're going to hit my gut says 250 250,000 or more a coin in the next couple of years so we'll see where that that goes but

now if somebody listening like Kevin's just Shilling his bags what would you say to that I would say a lot of people said this I don't know I'm not saying that I'm just saying no no I get it but like here's the deal about Shilling your bags I'm giving you PTSD flashbacks but this is this is the real truth let's go and take a look at how much Bitcoin traded today in terms of volume okay so I love our podcast that we're both going to Syndicate this episode on our respective feeds but like we're not

moving trillions of dollars of Bitcoin because I say it's going to 250 a coin like I could go right now on coinbase right now and say sell 20 million in Bitcoin press a button at market and it would hardly even like tick tick tick like a little tiny TI cuz there's so much volume no amount of Shing could move it in any meaningful way it just can't happen right now 10 years ago you and I go on here talk about Bitcoin and we just made ourselves like you know five million bucks because you pump it

up because but you know what I mean like that's not the case anymore there it's just too massive makes sense so anyway there's no such thing as Shilling anymore at least when it comes to bitcoin if we're talking about shitcoins which are happening a lot right now that's the uh stuff that's like just so stupid I don't even get involved in so anyway I hold Bitcoin I purposely hold it in an account that I can't touch so I like this because like coinbase has a feature called custody where you can't withdraw it for like 3

days Enterprise level self-control yeah exactly it's like a forced hold I like doing it and I I've now stopped trading it so I don't even look at the price I'm like it's just part of my overall Holdings I'm going to hold it for the next 50 plus years like I want to hand my kids Bitcoin yeah it's gone from like when do I sell it like ooh is it too high should I sell right now those days are over now it's just like part of the portfolio so it's digital assets yeah it's not going away

you can't put digital assets back in the box like you know back in the tube or whever the genie comes out of back in the tube yeah can't put the genie back in the toothpast Tobe yeah exactly so last thing I will say now I do like to play do little oneoff stock buys every now and then yeah and I I got really lucky because I called Nvidia pretty early on your podcast before which was good but I have enough friends that are large Executives at major companies in the tech Arena that they are all

talking about nuclear power and I don't know how to play it but my gut tells me over the next decade there's going to be a I'm pretty bullish on the return of nuclear to the United States just out of our sheer capacity for power that we need for data centers on the AI side like we need Alternative forms of of energy especially if coal plants are shut down yeah well I mean I don't think that's going to happen but I'm not saying all I'm not saying all but yeah so if you want to play the

broad basket and you're thinking about this over the long term I was just speaking for myself this is not investment advice but I did find there's a fund that like holds uranium manufacturers and some like nuclear plants and some of the companies that are thinking about doing these new small smaller plants and so it's like a basket of public nuclear stocks right now and they will add to it as other nuclear companies go public and so like I'm not in the game of going and saying hey this is a nuclear future it's just one company

right because that to me would be like it seems too much like Angel Investing or something else so anyway the one I I look at is the only one I could really find was nlr which is the vck ETF trust uranium and nuclear basket of stocks it's got a pretty high expense ratio but like I'm doing a really small piece into it just because I think over the next decade it's going to outperform the S&P that's all M that's what for fun on the kind of investment going into the new year and then I got

a bunch of predictions going into the new year throw some of the predictions out so prediction number one Bitcoin hits 250 US government starts adding it to the reserves you think that's in 2025 I think that is in the next two years so I'll I'll kick that out say within the next two years I think several AI companies next year struggle to raise capital and go under and I'm talking some of the bigs that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars because I think what's going to happen is that the I shouldn't say The Bigs

the big players that are in the startup space now I think the quote unquote Bigs like the alphabet companies are just going to run the table when it comes to most AI related things and if that's the case I kind of just want to hold those stocks open AI I'm still like you know they're so intertwined with Microsoft I think that they'll be fine plus they're working on other devices as well speaking of which one of my predictions will be that opening I launch is some type of mobile device maybe some type of smart headphones

this coming year because they have to be at the metal level meaning like they have to be at the device level that we all carry around and when you have press and hold Apple intelligence just by holding in the side of your phone now and you have press and hold like you know how you used to query like Siri or whatever and now you have that same going on with Gemini with Google now you've got AI at the phone level already carried by the big providers to get someone to think like oh I got to

go download chat GPT so I can go and switch it out as my assistant and all this and set up shortcuts and all that and it's like if if it's like 90% as good people won't care you know what I mean yeah I don't care if I'm streaming Lord of the Rings off of freaking Hulu or prime or Apple TV I just want to watch the movie right and so it's like I think AI is going to be kind of like that where we'll just like oh I have an Apple phone so I use apple

intelligence that's kind of where it's at that's interesting yeah well so you think of like where could they get the wedge in the door the headset's interesting right because if they made a really good set of basically airpod clones of some type but intelligent with AI built in yeah that had that built in but basically they're not going to replace the iPhone right they're not going to replace good Android phones for people who already use those but they could replace Wireless airpods the only way I think they would have a chance at replacing the not

replacing the iPhone but being a top seller would be that they do something so first principles oriented where it's like a type of UI that we just haven't even imagined yet yeah I heard they were working with Johnny IV on some of this stuff and so you know you got the former like industrial designer head of design for Apple coming to the table with open AI saying hey let's go back to the drawing board and say if we had to build a phone today would it be with a series of app icons on here or

might it be a different interface that makes this way more sexy more fun like you know yeah cuz like the future is not going to be hey I'm going to go launch hotels.com app and say get me a room in Japan in 2 weeks negotiate all the things put in my credit card credentials it's going to be literally you open your AI and you say hey can you get me a room for Japan at this hotel in two weeks and it'll be like which room do you want these three things blah blah blah and you're

like this room and it's like boom it's already got my information it's all apis behind the scenes it hands all that data over the exchange is done the payment is done and it's just like it's finalized within 30 seconds versus a 15-minute thing yeah that's true I mean I guess what what someone like open I could do is something along the lines of a fantasy I've had for a long time which is like a a very dumb phone that I remember last this is a almost a year ago I was telling my friends it'd be

great to have a one button phone and the one button phone at that time would have basically sent Voice or routed a phone call to a virtual assistant or someone who handles everything for me outside of like Google Maps it's like all right I have maps and then I have one request button for everything right and that's it right just to avoid the metastasized mess of having a thousand apps so many people want this and thousand notifications and all that [ __ ] and I know some very accomplished professionals who have stopped taking their iPhone

into their office like they leave it in some type of Locker or maybe they leave it someplace safe at like the reception and they take their dumb phone into say the office where they're doing their real work and their family has that number right ringer is on for emergencies it has maps and that's it yeah there's nothing else so you could Envision something that is effectively the one button phone but it's using an AI assistant through open AI yes right 100% yeah I think you're exactly right in that like there's probably the two or three

things that you still need and it's not Instagram it's not a full Suite of things it's like okay I maybe I still need to call or hail an Uber at this corner and see when is pulling up right yeah it's like Maps maybe Uber and then music probably yeah music and like credit cards like that's it right exactly you don't need anything else and like AI could serve up music I mean I don't know exactly how they would do it but there'd be a way to do it oh they'll have apis with all that stuff

they can just talk to Spotify and they'll have apis for everything yeah and coming back to what we were saying earlier too it's like okay well most people are not going to replace their phone with that but could they get 100,000 200,000 techies to overpay for that to do the basically field testing for them sure they could 100% almost certainly as the technology kind of matures behind the scenes and then I mean this is the The Playbook that I think is finally starting to work for meta where they have these Rayband glasses that it's the

first time I've seen a meta product where I've said okay you're starting to get a little I mean we've been talking about VR and AR for so long and how stupid it is as long as this show has been around I know Adam gazale still owes me a bottle of whiskey because he thought it was going to win out but that's in your book but yeah so rayb band's finally is really starting to hit for meta in that like you know you can walk up to people now in Japan and like get real time translations

right and you don't even look like you're wearing anything real time doxing too you see the Harvard student who figured out how to use the Rayband glasses to immediately dox everyone you be like hey are you so and so who researches so and so they're like oh my God how do you know and it's like I know because they're getting a Terminator readout yeah you get the Terminator read out totally yeah a little higher Fidelity than those those Graphics back then but yeah yeah so a couple things though real quick on on the prediction front

and then I'm done but I think Microsoft releases an Android phone because largely because they have the suite there they have word they have Excel they have PowerPoint they have Drive they have all stuff Outlook you name it I think it'll be Android based and they have chat GPT so I think on the open AI side that will probably be integrated into the Microsoft phone I got it that's my my gut tells me there's a no-brainer for them so Microsoft would subsidize the development and all that of this Hardware as opposed to AI but it

also be Android based right okay it's almost like getting a Google phone you know when you get a Google phone you open it up and it's like got Gmail and chrome and everything like baked in if it is Android based this is such a LTE question I should know the answer but does Gemini automatically come along for the ride in which case that would be built-in competition for open AI if they used an Android phone it's a great question because I know that Google had some funky things back in the day if you wanted to

use Android you had to include certain types of Google services behind the scenes even though it's open source I don't know to what extent and what you have to bundle but I believe because if I look at Samsung phones and they have their own browsers and they have their own email and everything else and they're based on Android that they could do they could do the swap here cuz Samsung already does that on the AI side and everything else got it okay interesting lastly I think we'll get some type of confirmation of aliens and then

one last thing which I think we'll see is we're going to see a very massive unlock and creativity around Music Creation happening in the next couple of years so the same way that we're able to prompt and type in like show me a fox swimming underwater grabbing an apple and now you can't even tell it wasn't shot you know and it's like you know it's just being generated these little 4K Snippets I think there's going to be a way to prompt Music Creation in a very fun and exciting explosion of creativity that will make an

average consumer sound like they can be a real producer for the first time just because I've seen some of these early betas and they're they're a lot of fun yeah I mean I think they I think that's the next 12 months maybe 18 Max yeah I think 18's sounds about right yeah so you skipped over damp January which is fine we'll let that sit yeah yeah it's going be fine but aliens tell me more about the aliens uh I mean I just and what the hell is going on in New Jersey honestly I just have

been ignoring most of the news yeah I have kind of to I feel in the last three years and I got a really awesome chance to sit down with that Navy fighter pilot that saw some of these things and you know there has been so much inquiry now and then there also is a new change in government obviously that's pushing for so much more transparency and I think that when you have someone like you know and we don't have to get in the politics whether you love them or hate them or anything else but when

you have someone like Elon Musk in there being Elon like I can see this shaking free or at least the uncovering of whatever we know in this domain being kind of Declassified no and that to me is just horribly scary SL exciting at the same time yeah who knows crazy yeah what the odds that you would Place honestly in my head it's like 90% there's aliens out there and that we know about it as a government I mean I guess we haven't talked about this because I don't want to sound like a [ __ ]

crazy person but there was a point where this conversation was in the air enough I was like okay let me do a deep dive to see what we can say with any degree of certainty and what we can't say with any degree of certainty MH and looking at government reports looking at various firsters testimony about the Tic Tac and so on that are very widely cited and trying to account for the possibility that some of these people not all of them and not necessarily people involved with tic tac may see some benefit or appeal like

every human being on social media to to getting attention right so you have to add that in as a possible contributing factor mhm what can we conclude based on the available data and what seems to be the case if you're looking at uaps right the uh guess it's what unidentified aerial phenomena now the Rebrand from UFO it's good it's good Rebrand so you don't sound like someone wearing a tin foil hat yeah yeah and part of the reason that it's aerial phenomena as opposed to flying object is because the vast majority of these can be

explained by say high altitude weather balloons or meteorological phenomena that cause a strange visual effect in the sky that is noticeable by humans from the ground blah blah blah blah blah right there are like a 95 plus percent can be accounted for by that or 90 plus percent then you have also a long government history of covering up test craft flights and so on with reports of UFOs right so there's a there's a crash of some prototype of some type of weaponized technology or surveillance technology and especially many many decades ago they're worried about that

news getting to our enemies competitors overseas so they drum up a misinformation campaign around it being a UFO okay so there's also a bunch of that taking all of that into account if you look at Congressional testimony and a bunch of other things there do seem to be quite a few examples of documented phenomena often recorded from multiple video sources that defy explanation they seem to defy explanation and the descriptions of the behavior of these things seem to defy any explanation using technology that is currently available to us but I would say that the idea

that there are like little green men in these ships strikes me as kind of ridiculous unless they're tourists who just like are on Safari seeing what humans are doing yeah because if they're sufficiently Advanced to do what some people report these craft doing why on Earth would they have like we're already using drones for Warfare why would they risk that's right and injury that's why I don't think it's that I think it is tourism dude you're right it could be tourism and the ones that wreck are like the ones that you hear about in Africa

when people go on safaris and they have too many drinks and they just like [ __ ] crash into roseros and then like get eaten or whatever some of these aliens are coming down here and it has to be something like that they've had a few bevs and they just they just [ __ ] wreck their [ __ ] it's like Teenage alien DUIs yeah exactly yeah where' Glo glove go [ __ ] yeah he's gone to Earth again right so did he drink he took a few yeah I mean maybe maybe there many more

questions than answers of course but actually you know I'll give a shout out there is an app called Enigma which runs machine learning on UAP sightings so if people want to check that out it's pretty interesting of course we've seen a huge spike in New Jersey over the last period of time but that's worth checking out and I'm actually just going to double check that did you see moment of contact by the way nope what's that you got to see this yeah so Enigma is Enigma labs. dude you have to go make a note of

this moment of contact it's a Netflix documentary about this 1996 crash in Brazil okay and it's like these citizens like dozens of them saw not only the crash but the freaking aliens wandering the neighborhood and [ __ ] after the crash and then all these military things came in all right dude it's worth it it's worth it it's like ET bit in Brazil I put on an alien documentary like once a year you know just cuz like Netflix knows me enough why not yeah it's like it's like hey you might like this and I'm like

I might JJ Abrams production company Bad Robot they made some UFO miniseries I watch that on an airplane cuz that's when you watch that kind of thing exactly and so I watched this one and I was like holy [ __ ] this is very it's pretty compelling let me throw out a couple of alternate explanations or like supplemental explanations so one when you see these reports right like the vast majority of alien abduction reports are like rednecks getting pulled up by a tractor beam and then having like anal probes put in them and I'm just

like why is it that all these rednecks are getting anal probed is it always anal probes well there is a lot of probing typically involved but it is weird what's going on there but why do they return them like take them I don't know but where I was going to go is like the report reports also of the appearance of these aliens right so what you often see is like the sort of upside down teardrop shaped head with the big eyes and it's like well look cross-culturally you see these reports everywhere therefore they must be

real those types of entities often are cited in say certain types of psychedelic drug experiences also so what does that mean right are people having sort of spontaneous druglike experiences that are producing these Visions is it actually not that these particular alien creatures exist but that there is some fundamental production of this hallucination based on endogenous DMT release or something who the [ __ ] knows but I'm saying like there could be a component of that the other one is if we take as a possibility that there are aliens from God knows where who are

somehow getting to Earth by like bending the time space continuum to get here from gazillions of Lighty years away somehow in these craft mhm then wouldn't it be equally plausible that these craft are sent by time traveling humans basically like descendants of us that are like wow we really [ __ ] that up let's try to send back like an intervention team could be it sound it's crazy I don't think it's any crazier than aliens figuring out how to get here from a gajillion like years away to go on Safari and anal Pro redneck I

it's it doesn't strike me as any stranger well you've heard that a lot of these sightings are around some of these nuclear facilities as well like the missile silos and stuff like that I have yes what I'm doing right now is what I always try to do even and and this is especially true with things that I feel strongly about I'm like what else could explain this like what are some possible alternate EXP ations particularly when I'm delving into some of the very weird edges of things that I've done over the last you know 15

20 years with respect psychedelic assist therapies and so on like some very very strange reports come back so how do you cross-examine those one tool and the toolkit is simply to say let me try to strong man against whatever my current explanation is right so MH in the case of the nuclear sites yes there is a lot of it seems like there's a disproportionate number of reports and videos and so on associated with these military sites however you could also look at say the data for like brain tumor diagnosis and if you were to look

at the graph of something like that and I'm making up this example but I think it's probably true it would look like there's an explosion of brain cancer right that among the human populace brain cancer is just on this crazy parabolic rise but it's probably just because our diagnostic tools have become better right our Imaging tools are catching things earlier they're more sophisticated similarly at these nuclear sites what do they or especially military sites with nuclear components what do they have they have a million times the surveillance of any other place right so it's possible

these things are flying around in the Alaskan Tundra but there's nothing there to capture them right so I think it's certainly possible those are areas of interest to me that would seem to lend weight to explanations of like I don't know why aliens would be interested in that time traveling humans maybe State actors like China oh for sure they' be very interested Soviet Union for sure MH but some of the propulsion and aeronautic behaviors of these craft do not seem to to reflect technology that's available to any current state actor including the United States which

raises all sorts of questions but yeah there's some there's some very strange stuff out there it is a very very very small singled digit percentage of the total reported or documented phenomena but yeah it's it's strange I mean that was my conclusion if we can ever find a hot spot and we get a chance to go out there that would be fun like just get a group of people go out there a hot spot what do you mean yeah yeah like a place where there's a lot of UFOs showing up you know there is some

of these places that are supposed to be better for like viewing UFOs yeah that would be fun just get Airbnb for like a week when I was a kid I remember driving with my mom babysitter at the time I think my brother was baby and we were driving I remember exactly where we were I'm not going to name it but I remember the exact Road and this kind of like cigar shaped thing just went and then just shot off we all saw it and I was just like what the [ __ ] was that no

idea but we all saw the same thing yeah so who knows like there was a fair amount of military testing out there so maybe who knows that's crazy that's awesome yeah go figure all right so that's that's the aliens or pseudo aliens that's all I got all right that's all you got so I'll talk about a couple of things which are not related to predictions maybe I have some predictions maybe they'll come out organically so you're talking about protein yeah I'll mention a few things that might be of interest to folks so you know while

I've been here I've been on the go I'll also talk about why I seem so chill mhm which I think I can nail pretty easily to one thing so the first and this is a company I'm super heavily involved with but I mean I'm involved with it because I believe in it a lot so these so you've seen these venison sticks AIS deer venison sticks mauii venison it's the it is the most nutrient dense red meat that you can get and the most ethically Harvest harvested in my opinion red meat that you can get what's

interesting about this one this is a brand new product that I've been I've been consuming two or three of these a day it's basically a multivitamin in a meat product because it has this is called pepper 10 and it's got MH 10% liver and heart in addition to the muscle and it is incredible how much nutrient density you get from that and then the other one which I don't actually have any official relationship with was whatsoever but shout out to also Peter Tia who we both know who's the chief science officer but this is David

so these David bars have incredible protein per calorie ratios 28 gram protein 150 calories so when I am traveling especially when I'm traveling this is basically the kit yeah I do the David bars too they're good one of them was a little too sweet for me but the blueberry one's really good yeah some of them are a little too sweet for my palette but also there is a point where I'm like I cannot eat another venison stick because I eat so many of those per week and we're in Maui meaning my team and iron Maui

right now because we wanted to visit Maui Nei because oh that's awesome Jake Muse is one of the most impressive company leaders and operators I've ever seen including all of my startups in Tech and otherwise he's so good at Talent Development he's so good at culture and it's a great example of doing good through a for-profit and I just think that type of model is important to highlight because there is a lot of good you can do through sort of Market driven Solutions and in this case what Maui new venison does people don't know Axis

deer were introduced they're originally from India to Hawaii by King kame the third or fifth I can't recall exactly they have no natural predators and now there are like tens of thousands of these deer ravaging the landscape and so they're destroying the ecology and that has all sorts of Downstream effects literally and metaphorically including destroying coral reefs because they produce a lot of erosion and it's really alarming it looks like wildfire effectively so what Maui does is they harvest his deer meaning they shoot them in the field at night for lowest stress levels for the

animals and and it's incredibly well-run their sort of efficiency ratio is as good as say slaughter houses for cattle which are very stressful for the animals right they're Factory farmed then they're put into shoots they're literally held in place and then boom like bolt in the head this for my money is infinitely more ethical I mean the animal is like Wild and Free Living its life until the very instant that it instantaneously EXP fires mhm then they package that and they sell it best way to go yeah let's just go out a Maui neie field

we're like old like they'll just put us out in the field we'll just run when we can no longer harness our yeah exactly our spinal engine it's like well it's time it's time to put Kevin out to pasture yeah just give him a donut and a couple of beer have him sitting at a table and then just came over and Maui knew it's all green I'm like Tim why did you bring me to Maui Nei it's so nice here ma retirement home you're you're gonna love it sit there you're going to love it exactly so

what I did here this trip which IID always wanted to do but I've never done is I went on a Holo ey and a Holo ey Harvest is for the community here in Maui so the holoai food sharing program that was created in April 2020 as a response to food insecurity in Hawaii which had a lot of food security issues emergency level caused by the the co lockdowns and what the Maui Nei team did is they completely sort of revamped everything so they could first just drive venison by the ton straight to the food bank

to donate it for communities and then after the devastating wildfires last year they completely restructured their operations and they I mean I got the email sent to All investors and they're like hey look guys we are like shifting our Focus completely to helping our communities which need food like there is is a disaster level crisis that's amazing change their business model and they have shared more than 120,000 PBS of venison me donated since the 2023 fires it's it's amazing there are a lot of Partners and other people who have helped them along the way but

what I did is and my team had the option of participating and they all opted in was to go on a night Harvest so their operation is like a special operation vampire hour outing I mean you go out they have Flur infrared cameras and Scopes they have display monitors they're capturing information which is like a current stop no shot a current stop shot and they have like laser identifications for The Rovers who are the people who then go and like retrieve the deer and I went through the butchering process I wanted to get better at

butchering so it's like I actually butchered I don't know six or seven deer on this trip that's amazing did you get take some meat with you or no oh of course yeah that's awesome I mean the vast majority of that's going to be donated but some of it I'm going to keep for myself and sent to to family members and so on but it can be very visually arresting it can be confronting for someone who's used to getting food from a conveniently wrapped plastic packaging from Whole Foods yeah but I find it so grounding in

the sense that it makes you fully aware of what is involved to put food on your table if you choose to eat meat and I feel very unconflicted about it I know there's some people who feel conflicted I don't I do too it's funny you mention that because it's like I I get if you're a vegetarian or vegan out there and you're like I I don't see ey to ey with anything that is being said right now that totally makes sense to me but if you're going and having a burger and like I don't know

for me if I'm eating a burger and I can't like put down the animal that I ate it from yeah there's a big disconnect there like just a couple Generations ago we were doing that you know I mean and like now it's been completely stripped out of our culture and you know I don't have the same amount of hunting experience that you did I went hunting with my dad once but you know when I was I've certainly done a [ __ ] ton of fishing and you know it's not the easiest thing to put down

a big ass salmon either yeah but you think it's for its life and you make use of everything you can you know and it's and it's amazing totally and they use everything which is also deeply inspiring me they use they use everything yeah from these animals and I mean they're effectively restoring an ecosystem mhm right they are feeding the local community and they're providing the most nutrient-dense meat that you can that you can purchase and they're bringing back traditions of things that like this idea that there's a lot of chefs that are doing this now

where they call it like nose to tail which is like it's not about just getting the Prime Cuts and throwing everything else away and being wasteful it's like cooking all of the different aspects and using all the different aspects the animal for either consumption or for product use or whatever it may be there's no there's no waste there or very little you know and part of the reason they can do this is because they are harvesting these deer from private land so to be clear the reason that you buy farmed animals for food in the

United States because that's what you have to do you cannot buy game meat that's illegal because you don't want people poaching on public land and then selling meat which can lead to overkilling and all sorts of issues with wildlife management and cause imbalancing so the operation is incredibly unique in in that respect and there are actually I don't think it matters to out them here like there are a lot of say vegans or vegetarians there are I know vegans this is going to sound like a contradiction in terms but who object to a lot of

the animal husbandry practices especially factory farming and so on in the US so they don't eat meat based on those ethical ground BRS and they make an exception for Mai Nei it's the only meat that they consume so anyway that was this trip so my team got to got to ride around in these you know ATVs and see the displays and really see the whole process that's amazing how does that not surprise me that every single one on your team like if you work for Tim Ferris and and you're like you're like Hey we're going

on a hunt tonight like is there one person that's going to be like no you're like you're [ __ ] fired no no I wouldn't fire them I wouldn't fire them I mean it's I'm kidding I'm kidding yeah you know it's quite a bit to take in but what I wanted to do and this is actually not my idea this is the suggestion of one of my employees they wanted firsthand experience with one of the companies or nonprofits that I support and initially we thought about doing something with Amazon conservation team because I've done a

lot of work with them in in Columbia and suram and other places but that would have involved two weeks off the grid and would have been very complicated from istics perspective maybe they're talking about your psychedelic donations that you've been doing wait what was this maybe they're talking about your psychedelic research that you've been doing that oh yeah I don't think I feel comfortable sending my employees to the seventh Dimension just yet but who knows so that's what I've been up to and then on the calming side on the grounding side yeah you're like a

two on your typically like a a nice toasty seven or eight simmering seven you seem very chill yeah so I'd say chill certainly Hawaii helps certainly good sleep helps exercise helps but volume you're like I did three volume before I started the show I've got the lyus on this shoulder I've got my morphine drip on the other yeah exactly your morphine patch slow release no it's not morphine it's not morphine it's it's meditating twice a day and amazing yeah and I've been doing it for probably a month now and I started it in part as

a response to a disappointing result from a booster of accelerated TMS so we spoke several shows ago about accelerated TMS and how my 5day bout let's just call it or treatment with accelerated TMS had the greatest durable impact on my generalized anxiety that I've ever experienced this includes psychedelic assistance therapies The Accelerated TMS which is and non-invasive treatment using transcranial magnetic stimulation over 5day period in this case where you're getting treated basically 8 minutes every hour on the hour for 10 hours a day so it's it's very involved like when you're doing it that's all

you're doing MH for effectively a week and it was phenomenal and I will almost certainly do it again but 5 days is a lot and I wanted to see if I could do it with less so first I tried a two-day booster or might have been a single day booster and it was not enough it did nothing then I went back and this is going to California and I did a 3-day booster also not enough so I just wasted a lot of time a lot of money trying to round down and it didn't do anything

and I found that very disheartening it just means I need to go back and do the five days and figure out the right Cadence but it's very expensive to do this and it's very timec consuming so I then was looking at different meditation options and this has you know since become a company that I'm very heavily involved with but the way Henry shookman your man love Henry who you initially introduced me to and I've introduced my employees to the way which is an app and the sessions you can make them longer or shorter I set

them at 10 minutes and I was very skeptical because I did TM you know transal meditation back in the day which is 20 minutes twice a day and I assumed that 10 minutes like yeah it'll be kind of relaxed in but it's really not going to have much of a cumulative effect and I was completely wrong doing 10 minutes in the morning 10 minutes either before dinner or before bed but making it like brushing your teeth it's a non-negotiable right it's just a non-negotiable you just do it like you would do anything else that is

non-negotiable and doing those 10 minutes twice a day has been incredible because it has effectively gotten me to I think a similar level of lower generalized anxiety that I got from spending you know 30 to 50 Grand to do this experimental TMS therapy I didn't know was that much that is all inclusive right so that's like the treatment the hotels the flights so on and so forth right it it adds up and you can do it for Less that was with a MAG Ventures device which I think is quite interesting brain sway is another one

that's very interesting and works well for a lot of other people it doesn't have to be that expensive but for me I was like look let me pay for like the white glove ultra high touch best option and if that doesn't work for me I'm going to conclude that I can't I cannot recommend this therapeutic intervention because this is as good as it gets mhm and the idea that you can meditate 10 minutes a day with an app and people can check it out the way app.com is the app Henry shookman has the most relaxing

voice you'll ever hear your life he's the best yeah and I think the app gives you 30 sessions for free that's right so you can get a real flavor for it it's not like oh you get two chances and at least when I used it the first time I didn't have to use my credit card and by the way even though I'm an investor because I product test everything and love giving feedback as Kevin anden have sent like a million looms to co-founders as product feedback but I'm no I want to pay for it cuz

if there's a glitch in the system I want to know what the glitch is and I want to report it so I paid for it and you get 30 so that's either if you're doing 10 minutes a day that's 30 days if you're doing two a day that's two weeks it's plenty of time to either notice or not notice an effect but what what else would you say about about Henry yeah I think I will say that what is a challenging thing that to always navigate on the investment stuff although I love my new as

well I just ordered the sticks the the 10 sticks those are going to be good so good I'm not an investor there but I I do love their product one thing that you won't see that I'll tell you the behind the scenes is like Tim I was hitting you up and I was like oh dude you know you invested but you hadn't really give it a full Deep dive run right and you were like oh man I I don't know like I I really have to like to your defense and your credit and this shows

you kind of like the behind the scenes of why Tim I respect you so much is like you didn't want to ever really kind of talk about this or really like overly endorse it until you had really put it through your own personal rigor super deep dive yeah yeah and then the the first thing is I get on the phone call with the team because I we do investor updates with them or I do investor updates with them because I let their their round every month and and they're like Yeah Tim sent us like another

10 looms like he's he's got all this feedback he's got all this feedback and he's like and they were quick to implement that stuff which was awesome they have been one of the fastest teams to update product and which is not to say they have to take all my feedback or suggestions they certainly don't it's their product but they have been so fast at fine-tuning the product I've been really impressed yeah well they've loved the feedback it's all been super valid stuff so that's that's awesome but anyway what I would say about it is like

you know I started studying with Henry before he had an app during the pandemic and you know this is what really got me into zen and I think one of the things that meditation struggles from is this race towards the bottom in that there's been a commercialization of meditation that says hey do the two-minute meditation no the one minute meditation you know it's like how can I just productize meditation and sell meditation yeah and like this is like a real zen master teaching course that it's for people that really you may have tried calmer head

space but you want to go deep deep and and really go for something much bigger here and that to me is the exciting promise of this app because it's not just a hired pretty voice on the thing it's like an actual zen master teaching you and that comes through in the knowledge transfer yeah it's just you can feel it and it's also it's skill development yes right it's not pleasant story dour where you're just jumping around listening to different things which could be soothing maybe it works for some people it's never really worked for me

particularly well if I approach it that way this is skill development in a logical progression which you notice I you you recognize it you will recognize as you go through and maybe you're going through a particular Retreat that is themed on hindrances for instance and then you're doing a sit where you're focusing on a version and you can label it and then for instance I went out to a dinner two nights later and this this was this table of ladies who' had a few too many drinks and they were cackling like [ __ ] crazy

and normally I would just I would sit there just seething right yeah I was going to say here comes the here comes the Tim that is just like [ __ ] I'm not proud of saying this but I would just be like God damn it like you know I'd want to exact some vigilante justice I'd be like well if nobody's going to talk to her like how are they going to learn and like nobody else is going to go over there so I have a moral obligation to like be like hey ladies and then if

they're like hey pal [ __ ] yourself then I'm going to be like all spun out and disregulated sitting down to like eat my cheesecake like trembling in Fury and so I was like Oh and it popped up and as soon as it popped up I was like AV verion like you're experiencing a verion and I used exactly the skill that I had practiced two days before that's awesome in the meditation and I was like boom and it defused the whole thing and that's what you want like you're not meditating in an app just to

feel good while you're using the app that's right how how can you bring into everyday life and what I also like about it is it doesn't let you skip mhm you have to follow the program for good reason you don't get to skip around indulging your whim and impatience you have to follow through so if you try to skip ahead it's like hey buddy yeah glad you're excited but sorry you're not allowed to skip around because this program does X Y and Z so enjoy yeah it's good stuff it's perfect time too it's New Year's

get a New Year's resolution this is like going to be this is going to be a big one for me you know it's funny because I'm looking at the number of Retreats because I've done you I've done quite a few now and I'm like oh God I don't want this to end like what am I going to do when when I'm like through the entire program am I going to run out of Henry but I have so much left it's great well also you're going to come with me to a 7-Day Retreat we got to

make that happen this year like an inperson one yeah I'm G we'll do a 5-day one yeah yeah look I'm open to it as long as you don't eat a lot of mushrooms before you go yeah fast for 6 days and E micro do while I'm doing it I'm probably overk that was not a good first you said you probably had some PTSD from that one oh it was not a wise set of decisions there were there were bad decisions were made on my part I'd be gamed to talk about that so let's talk about

actually New Year's resolutions for a second because this ties in yeah I literally just did my past year review which I do every year I go through my calendar kind of week by week I did that today I also looked forward to the next year and what I've already been doing over the last month or two and I'd encourage people to think about this like instead of thinking about New Year's resolutions think about New Year's reservations New Year's reservations what does that mean it means what are you putting in your calendar if it's not in

your calendar it's not real right it's like okay so if you want to like exercise do this and this and this like hire a trainer or book a program or buy a membership get time in your calendar right so what are your New Year's reservations and for me the core of that is extended periods of time with close friends mhm right those people who I know are are going to give me energy who are going to leave me feeling better about my life and the and the world and optimistic those are the relationships I want

to invest in and so I go through the year and for instance January February it's like rented a house and it's stupidly expensive for me but I put together a Google spreadsheet and I'm inviting friends to come join I'll see you late January I don't know if you saw it it's on our on our the list yeah I'm gonna buy some skis too I'm going to do some skiing so yeah awesome I'm excited it's going to be fantastic I'll give you another example and you're invited I haven't actually talked to anybody about this I did

it on the slide but next August I booked a week in in the Rockies for for Alpine survivalist training with this amazing Outdoorsman and I'm going to invite you know five seven guys dude that sounds amazing yeah so if you're interested I can tell you more about that it's going to be incredible yeah that sounds fantastic I pay a lot of attention to the details for this type of thing I've always loved that [ __ ] you know like with eagle scout and being a Boy Scout like I want to dig little tunnels that I

can like sleep in and [ __ ] and the [ __ ] ice and [ __ ] like I'm totally down so we'll have Adventures like that and it doesn't have to be a week long could be a long weekend right it could be yeah every year you know some of my closest friends come and it depends on the cast of characters like it's not always the same people every year but for like a annual reunion in the summer of old friends right and in this case because I do get questions about this sometimes like

well why isn't it a mixed group it's not a mixed gender group because unfortunately in modern society especially on the coasts where people tend to get high flutin and fancy and brainwash themselves into all sorts of unproductive things that there are very few socially acceptable male only activities or groups and there just not many options outside of perhaps certain Sports environments so since that is a rarity right people are by default going to be in mixed groups and I think women generally do a very good job and it's so acceptable to have female only activities

and groups and so on but a lot of men don't have that most of my friends don't have that and that type of experience becomes less and less common as they get married and have kids and so on and get busy so yeah for me I feel like the gift I can give is blocking out a few options for people over the year where take them away from their wives you know for a weekend you know what I'm saying yeah it's the gift you're given yeah really they get where they get some time and their

kids and you know little break yeah yeah and then also it's like I think a lot of men in my experience it's like they don't bond necessarily and I know I'm painting with a broad brush and they're always exceptions and so on but it's like they don't bond in the same way that women do in the sense that a lot of guys just want to not talk and do [ __ ] together right and there just aren't many options for doing that and the beauty of saying setting this up and having reservations and this doesn't

only apply to men it applies to women too like if you don't cultivate and nourish those friendships they will atrophy they will go away yeah it's interesting I have to convince my wife Daria to like do these social things with women cuz it's not in her DNA to do that and so like tonight I was like I'm going to record a podcast she's like okay going out with my girlfriend I'm like awesome go do that take some time have a moment go get a massage like whatever you got to do to prep for the holidays

like you deserve it and it's it's so important to have those breaks it's important to have the breaks and I mean this idea that I can't remember where I read this recently but I was reading a piece this idea that you're going to spend like 247 together with your partner is a very new idea relatively speaking Yeah Yeah and get everything and anything from your partner unreasonable that's not going to work yeah they're everything yeah you know they they end up being your therapist your partner your business person you're like and it's like that's doesn't

work yeah so I have a number of these blocked out for the year I try to have probably like four or five yeah and they're not all a week long and they're not all dedicated time right so for instance like with the skiing it's like people are bringing their wives people are bringing their kids it's like that's a family or a couple adventure and then there are a few that are boys only and so the New Year's reservations is something I've done this now for at least five years maybe longer where it's like I'm blocking

these things out yeah and they're in the calendar they will not get crowded out by other things so that's a big one for me love it yeah that's great and then other news finished my nobnom which is no booze no masturbating 30-day challenge which a lot of my readers and fans joined me on I also did no coffee so I was allowed to have tea but I didn't do coffee and it was a fantastic reset and in the last week not to get to TMI but it's like okay all of those things have been reintroduced

yeah you just went to town like I really liked the cleansing of the dopamine pallet and these are addictive these can be addictive behaviors right all of them so I think there's a very good chance that I'm going to be I have to think about it a little bit just because so many people will be visiting but a very very either completely dry for January or like so people visit me I just G to have to like mastur in the living M every day like got so many friends coming over like just got just got

go down what kind of party is this I didn't get the memo Tim's back on like just give him a few minutes like yeah sorry you understand he's been depriving himself like Tim ever not in his bathroom what's going on exactly uh yeah so no that's the alcohol side so yeah all that stuff I think I might might continue all of that for January we'll see that's great but it really was a fantastic reset and I think it contributed to to lowered anxiety and kind of how chill I am right now frankly yeah and there

was an interview I think Peter Tia did with a psychiatrist female psychiatrist to was saying when somebody comes in and say they're a heavy cannabis user and they use it for like reducing anxiety and chronic pain or whatever actually in this case it wouldn't be chronic pain it would be they're using it for what they believe to be reducing anxiety but they've they've developed this sort of honic adaptation to the Cannabis consumption mhm that before she'll prescribe other medications before she'll work on the talk therapy she'll try to get them to abstain from say cannabis

use for 2 to four weeks and lo and behold in many cases like anxiety drops to the floor yeah just by that intervention yeah and that was partially what inspired me to do the 30 days of abstinence from these things is to is to see okay what does it look like to reset the system and it's great nothing against those in moderation but like I think for instance with me and coffee it's like if I'm allowed to unrestrained consume as much coffee as I want I will consume a lot of coffee yeah and it's easy

for me to over consume so I do occasionally I mean look I've been loving my cold brew so maybe I'll just limit it to one cup of coffee in the morning which I can actually do if I'm getting out of the house and getting on the mountain for a few hours rather than sitting in a coffee shop where it's like there's a fixation with Beverages and it's like right or if you're in a restaurant they just like a diner they keep pouring coffee you're like ah and before you know you've had five cups of coffee

right so anyway some of the things on my mind what else you got Kevin anything else you'd like to add no I'm on the same boat as you with the alcohol stuff it's so funny how the last few years if you go back it's been like oh I'm going to do X number of days and there's been like this hard and fast Rule and it was like don't break it just force yourself through it and it's like one of the things I realized in the last few weeks especially with all the holiday parties and things

that I've had I'm like I just have to understand that there are going to be moments when you go out and you have a couple drinks with friends and but it has to be an occasion not just a night at home where you're like oh let's pop a bottle of wine and have some alcohol you know it's like yeah I would much rather it be about a special moment with a friend enjoying a good meal than have it be just this constant thing that just kind of makes you not hung over but just not your

best version of yourself you know like you said about the anxiety stuff like a lot of that you don't even realize it because you think that substance is actually reducing anxiety but in reality if it's too many times in a month it's like depleting of all kinds of nutrients and B vitamins and like it adds to actually more anxiety by just partaking in it so it's like this horrible thing oh yeah I mean it also [ __ ] up your sleep right so I mean the big one is like yeah it's going to reduce anxiety

for 2 to 3 hours and then you're going to feel like dog [ __ ] for 12 right and some people handle it better than others but what I found also is that by doubling down on exercise like exercise is the lead Domino that tips over all of these other habits more easily yes what I mean by that is if I know I have a halfday ski lesson that starts at 8:30 or 8:00 a.m. depends on the snowfall and then I have more training later that night if I have had two or three drinks the

night before I'm going to be punished right all right there are consequences and maybe it's not feeling terrible but my performance is terrible and I hate losing I hate not improving I love improving and it's a corrective mechanism right if I don't have that in place and I'm just sitting in front of a laptop and maybe the performance drop isn't as noticeable it's not as obvious then it's harder for me to hold myself to that line perhaps but yeah you know the more movement more exercise the more everything else Falls in line in my experience

agreed yeah all right man well I'm excited for 2025 I am too I got all sorts of crazy [ __ ] coming I do too I'm super super stoked we're going to hang um presuming it's South by well we I'll see you in January of course yeah we're we're going to see each other in Jan and then got a lot of lot of fun stuff coming for southp yeah we'll have to let people in on that at a later date in terms of when to come hang with us yeah yeah we're going to do a

little we'll do something we'll do something on stage and something fun yeah yeah around that time so keep your eyes and ears peeled for news at some point in the near future which should be very exciting sounds good good to see you buddy yeah happy New Year and happy holidays yeah happy Holidays happy New Year give your fam the best yeah same to you man same to you and yours and for everybody listening we'll put links to stuff we mentioned in the show notes tim. blog SLP podcast and we'll put everything in there and I'll

give one more wreck which is I'm totally unaffiliated with this but in addition to the way I've been listening to a recording which was actually sent to me by a friend who took the the audio tapes and converted into MP3 but there's an easier option because I found it on Audible it's called the present moment a retreat on the practice of mindfulness by tikot Han so tick Han I've been a fan of forever and his books had a huge impact on me but I'd never heard his voice I had never heard his voice and this

is a recorded Retreat yes with guided meditations and so on I know this Retreat yeah it's amazing from tikn Han and it is it's quite mesmerizing and I mean he's got the accent which gives it like the necessary level of like exotic gravitas which always helps but I will say that the way sort of greased the groove for me to be more open to this and when I've just been like laying in the bath after like doing a bunch of activities after my night Harvest or whatever and I'm really sore I will listen to these

chapters from the present moment let me give one book recommendation as well I'm not affiliated with fire away by Bruce Grayson MD it's called after have you heard of after I have excit Bruce Grayson on the podcast no way yeah yeah holy [ __ ] I got to go listen to that was it good it was outstanding yeah it was really good from University of Virginia yeah so essentially this book The subtitle is a doctor explores what near-death experiences reveal about life and Beyond like halfway through it and I just like I can't put it

down like it's so good yeah and Professor Dr Grayson is a very credible researcher this guy is not like handwavy woo guy in beads nothing no offense to beads but you get the idea he's not like the archetype of some guy who's got like heavy dose of conspirituality and can't really sort fact from fiction this is a very credible researcher and he is fascinating and you know I debated having him on the podcast or not for quite a long time and then I realized what am I what am I so afraid of like I actually

feel quite good about his his documentation the research he's put out and his observations don't ring as wildly speculative and these are documented phenomena like people have these experiences so let's take a closer look at near-death experiences and I'm really glad I did it really glad I did it but I was hemming and hawing for probably a year or two simply because I didn't want to I was worried that it would open the door to criticism of not being sufficiently skeptical or critically minded with guests but he delivered what I hoped he would deliver which

is a very that's awesome sober fascinating account of a well reported phenomena that is poorly understood that he has researched for several decades now at this point yeah which he became interested in quite accidentally and reluctantly oh my God the story about how he became interested in it and what happened to him is just wild it's bananas I won't ruin it but people check out the book or check when the podcast come out a couple years ago no podcast came out like a few months ago this is recent oh jeez I got to go check

it awesome yeah yeah it's amazing it's fun it's fun I'll link to the the Dr Grayson episode as well for folks yeah after didn't uh Daria also read that yeah that's how I had it it was in my audible library and she's like you got to read This and like when you share an audible Library you just see what your partner's buying yeah cool and so like I just downloaded it and yeah it's been awesome dig it yeah awesome brother well lovely to see you as always give a hug to dardar and the kiddos and

toasty for me we'll do please pet Molly for me and tell your parents that said hello and happy holidays brother I love you and yeah I'll see you in Jan yeah love you too buddy I'll see you in January happy Holidays happy holidays for