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Kev Kev, nice to see you Tim Tim, happy holidays, brother, happy holidays, another random
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happiness that time of the year, it is and Guy stay where you are because you're not in a holy place you and why he hit, right? I'm not in a
place with great seasonal. Variety. Yeah I am in a place with wonderful, sun
and warmth, which is a good why it's amazing. Of course, it's amazing.
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 what we'll get to that. But there are some contributing elements that you are 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. Yeah. Very grounded right now and I want to keep. Yeah I feel very chilling. Very ground right now and there's still a lot going on. It's not
Flower the 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 them sleeping. While in Hawaii, give me that set the AC to like - 500 Degrees. Which I had to override every system in the hotel to do. Yeah. They have those things
in lockdown and then if you open the door shuts, the AC
off its like she'll whole thing. Yeah.
70 degrees would be dangerously called. 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? Ah man, let's start off with you. When I think about these urine special, we've done a few of these. Yeah, we typically do a little bit of, like, what are you doing in the new year? You know, like what do you change this here? And it's the same list every year for me dress exercise more. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But we'll talk about that. But, you know, there's a lot of stuff, I thought some predictions of
E fun, because I have some good work for next year. Yeah, you're the right guy for that. I'm actually predictions but you have a better track record than I do. I didn't 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, a true. And as more active investor than yours, truly you get to see a lot that is coming down.
Pike,
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 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 inside, hey, you're the 15 amps that we love is the best gaming. App is the
Best productivity app, all this stuff, right? And and I tend to go in there and poke around and I'm always check you out. You know what the new hot thing is especially on the gaming side of stuff where I really just, don't pay attention. I'm like, just tell me the
best thing. We'll check it out, right?
Yep. And I noticed one thing then I
keep saying this over and over and it's driving me
nuts because it dovetails into some of the videos that we send each other on the side thread but like, Okay. So we've seen a couple of these videos back here. Me in the mutually assured destruction through, we can say Sokka these are more so
A kid, got it? Yeah, so yeah. Give me a second. Will be like, sending texts this one of those threads out on those, this
one's that bad but we've been on some some threads with. 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 and they'll get like knocked out. And when they fall to the ground, they like getting go-karts and shit and start driving around. Have you seen this with a like blend a? I yeah. I've seen them and it's like, it's me.
Messing with my head. Like I look at that stuff and I'm like this is like really bending reality. I don't know if it's because like there's a
psychedelics kind of component there. We
were like why am I seeing something that I would typically see in a different realm? Like in this realm like weird stuff 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 in why they were so stoked on Lightroom anything about Lightroom. You're like oh
this is like software has been around for like, you know, a couple decades. Like 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 shit, you know, like you can like, drag your finger across it like Google does all these ads where they're like, hey is there someone weird sand in your photo like a race? Mm, dude, this video we've gone too far so they're like these kids.
Play in the backyard. There was like Hedges and then they erased their like yard door to get out of their backyard. And like, it made more Hedges and I was just like, can you imagine what these kids are like 35 or 40? And I'd like, looking back in their photos and they're like, do we have like a backyard horse and took the dog out and shit? I'm like, why are you taking the dog out like the dogs? Like part of the face was sowing the seeds for gaslighting yourself? Like do you really mean like what's going on there racing?
All of our real memories and replacing them with almost in perceivable at this point. Digital Alternatives. Yeah. And it's really worrisome to me. I don't know. You do any of this shit to your race, anybody at 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 by 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 I tux or
facelift. 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 they're a 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. 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 to where your friends are like, okay, you just take something that is a mild visual nuisance out of the equation.
It's like oh
they had that perfect Beach shot. They are so lucky if only I could have that thing and then you go in you're like oh it was crowded like we didn't have the same thing they did but in reality they just like magic eraser at all, their friends are all the, all the people behind them out of it. I'm just like it's creating a fake everything. I don't know. I just something about it. I love a I 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.
And that's what this is doing. Is creating a better perfect scene, you know?
Oh yeah I mean people are already using that of course I mean it's like Zoom filters on steroids, 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 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 away or brush aside in years past
we're like, well, I know
that Twitter is a cesspool and X y&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.
Think they're 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 a. Yeah, like, those things are exploding in New York City and 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 have to look at the data.
I think it's mildly true. We see some improving numbers in print book sales, hmm, 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 no Israel look at in person and no Israel. So that's certainly
only extrapolating from just what I see in a sort of small circle of the other who are hyper exposed to a lot of this. I feel like people like you who are perhaps way it's called. Like prematurely saturated with exposure to. These things are canaries in the coal. Mine. Yeah like roof. Holy shit, we need an exit. We need a way to step off the stage so we're not looking at this manufactured reality.
It's funny. You say that I was talking to
A friend of mine that's deep in the stuff, you know. Chris Hodgins we I was talking to him about raising daughters and the kids are getting older and he's like dude he's like you know it's funny as I 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's like a schoolyard slams or whatever, right? Yeah. And like now like three years like I hope their mom look at this video and if you like the mom hook it up with a kid because Ai and shit like damn like you're hooking up my mom, you know but it will be real but it'll be just like this. I look like an idiot.
Enough like it's got the bowling is gonna go hardcore.
Yeah, yeah of course it will. Or just yes. Sharing videos of the person you want to bully doing things they
didn't do. Right? Exactly. It's gonna get bad.
Yeah, and that there are plenty of up sighs. I mean, look, I've used chat GPT and Claude like 10 to 15 times today with my team, I'm doing a company off-site here in Maui. That's why I'm in Maui and their 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, so that's one are 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. Yeah.
Then okay, so the exasperated exhales always 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 I just like let myself go. Yeah it happens. Every single year. Yeah I just go ham on shit. Thanksgiving comes around and I hate too much nutmeg. It's like are not enough a good egg nog. No thank you.
Let's say you know what I can't stand it slow just let's talk about clothes stink. Yeah but like I do I do like a little eggnog with little that Brandy in there you know you put a little tone yak and your eggnog. Yeah and so like but that goes straight to your gut, you know. Of course. It's so I hate this because this is like the freakin seventh year of random shows or whatever words like every December. It's like I want to be less fat and during class and like it's like you know I get a good running. Start on the new year though. So I'm gonna go into this, maybe we'll put
That I got compilation. Oh yeah, yeah. All the time you sell your ten years. Let's drink. Yeah. Exactly. So I think I'm just going to lean in to do the exact opposite just keep eating and just keep checking. I'm just kidding, that's good, 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 really curious to get your take on, this is back. There's like this
movement will not movement, it's called Almost
movement but it's old people movement of like, you know, you and I when we first met
get the name of the game is broing. As as might sound is like we want to put muscle mass on like we were like you know sure meet at Central. Yeah. Like I'm going to say full Meathead but there was a good amount of meat there. It's pretty made head. So the transition from Meathead to like somebody that actually just wants to like feel to like stretch. Yeah. And do you like functional stuff like we were talking about functional patterns because it was an account that I had followed for a while and they had some kind of more non-traditional ways of approaching.
Your gait and your movement and really setting you hopefully up for years of good solve longevity. In terms of joint health, back Health, all these things and I sent you another one that you were checking out is, 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 core plus plus strength. I'd love to be lean. I don't need to be ripped. All the duty, the new Hugh Jackman Wolverine.
With? Yeah, I'm Deadpool. He's a beast. Yeah. Do you think that was freakin animated or was that really Hugh Jackman's body, this stage? I think it's really him. That's yeah. Same. How could he freaking I have on
pretty good authority that that is him? Yeah.
Dude. How does he get cut like that? It was in
saying they take it, seriously, follows the basics Falls rules, doesn't waver? He's very dedicated and he is a real athlete. Mean you watch him move?
He moves like a dancer. He can lift like
a powerlifter.
His Endurance on sick, on a roar like a concept to is unbelievable. Like the wattage that he can sustain over periods of time would Boggle the Mind. Hmm. Of even some people who have been former competitive rowers, he is a, he is a true
athlete, okay? So yeah, that explicit so, anyway, by my point being is that like there's this little micro Trend I see occurring where
a lot of people are making this move toward more functional holistic, kind of movement, based health and strength.
Training. That is nontraditional, 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 to 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 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 encima in Yang. Now the spelling on that will be more accurate than that, my pronunciation. But NS IMA. That's probably all you need to find them on YouTube. In Yang, iny Ang so in Seema, has this video, which you sent to me called the live traditional strength training. Now, yes, that is. YouTube click bait on one hand but he actually does deliver on that is production. Value is incredible. Hits. Every is impeccable.
I was very, very impressed. I went back and watched certain sections of this his agility to just, insane is Julie's. Incredible. In terms of power, he's a Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor as well at a very, very high level. Think he won worlds or Masters Worlds at brown belt. Most recently is now 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
On very very well
and I met I
realized and Sima at 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 poles while I was there checking out the gym for the first time, this was a long time ago.
So I chatted
with Mark about and and see
Emma, 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 surge grekov its key Ser GE and we'll put a link in the show notes. But in effect, I'll actually pull this up.
I think it's worth reading, so the spinal engine and you can watch the video and see, what 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 paper back 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 gait 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 believe it proposes that the spine is the primary engine that makes us move and it goes on and on. And what I think in semen has 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 too.
Demonstrate how you can develop Mobility through different planes of motion. Yeah, so you have various things lateral flexion. You have flexion extension in terms of this type of forward backward plane. And it really got me thinking 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
Portions of a lift to increase intra-abdominal pressure that ultimately as a side effect you can produce a lot of rigidity in the spine
and I really have never had an interest in being a
power lifter or even an Olympic weightlifter. Although I think they should more accurately be called powerlifters. I've always been focused on weight training and service of athleticism and have loved playing sports. Have traditionally competed a lot and
I may actually compete in 2025, in some form of sport. I would like to have something on the calendar for that 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 fucked up and broken and stiff to. I'm going to do the most exaggerated rotational movements possible. Yeah. 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
His 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.
I get one of those splits machines where you can like, put your legs in there and do the cooking or Especial. Yeah, yeah, I'd like to check nursing on the outside I was doing it and I was getting further and further and further each week in my Plies and
Actor was like, what the hell are you doing? And I'm like, I'm gonna do the splits and like 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 he won't even be able to like everything else will rip, you know? And I was like oh shit, that's good call, I'm glad yeah, kick it, good
plan. Yeah yeah. 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
The end 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 so good. It's and so on 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, and
And
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 training.
Since training building muscle mass is an undeniable priority for Functional Health span as you get
older. 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 one,
Day one session per week if you're using say a high intensity training once at failure type protocol, I recognize it's very simple. I recognize there are some very experienced athletes will say well now you want to do five sets of 3 or 5 sets of 5 or whatever it might be with three to five minute, rest intervals, in between to replenish the creatine, phosphate dada dada. But complexity can be the enemy of execution is Tony Robbins and other say a lot. Yeah. And it's like, just scaled down to what you can do. If you're starting an exercise,
Sighs habit. If that means you go to the gym every day and you do five minutes on a treadmill. Make the bar low enough that you can clear it and you are not tempted to make
excuses. Let me ask you a question. Hmm. 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 tones and definition a little muscle mass, you know, and I've seen the pros and cons of one set to failure in the data around it. It seems to be that. It's good but not as good as 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 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 talked about, you're just doing hammer curls until you fail. And that's it for biceps today.
Let's just take skiing as an example. So my priority is going to be skiing there. 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. So I'll need to lose all this fat that I accumulated over.
Giving and Christmas. Because I know this Danish butter cookies, and my mom bought at Costco or just wait there thing, I know it, I know they're sitting there
so the one set to failure or
multiple sets to feel your 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 reps set to failure for squats. If you do that and you try to go skiing the next two or three days. You're Gonna
To be garbage from sort of fine motor control perspective. But to answer your question directly, 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 biased towards one method or another because I have volunteered to be a participant subject in certain weight. Lifting trials am not going to mention the universities that want to throw them under the bus. But when I went in there, the protocol required us to do 10
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 rather 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. She's like, the using terrible form, terrible form. Very, very little time,
under tension, and then you'd see someone else is doing like two seconds up for seconds down, pause.
Is it the chest? Those are not the same 10
repetitions, right? Yeah. So, I do think I'm under tension is completely
different. Yeah. So I think garbage in garbage out for last 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. If you do a single set, two concentric failure per exercise, and I'll come back in the next answer, the what type of
Exercise. And so on that you asked, 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. So you'll say one set. Yep. And now let me tell you what the ones that means. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. As those, what the
ones that 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, I go around, I gathered 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 Occam'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 a hundreds of thousands millions of people who've tried these things and I've seen the success studies like the does work. Yes. It's simple. Yes, it could be more sophisticated. It is idiot proof for a reason. That if I go into lift, I'm not going to be doing direct bicep work. I'm going to be doing something like a seat.
Dro. 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 like movements. That's the whole workout, the whole workout should take less than 20 minutes. People say what about warm-up sets? Well, if you're tracking your progress, while you're using the same equipment, and you're lifting at a slow cadence, this is key.
The first handful of reps effectively function is your warm up. Now, what I'll often do is take like 30 percent of the target working weight, that I'm going to use for my wanted 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 seen a workout in the be work out. So let's just say, hypothetically, I'm making this up but you might have something like a close grip incline, bench press,
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 and that one, right? That's your whole workout.
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One thing we didn't cover that I think is really important. Is you say once that the failure but what's your target reps? Here are you going for like, you know, some people say lift heavy and do 8 to 10, some people say, go a little bit lighter, get to 22. Where you fail at 20, what are you aiming for here for safety
purposes? And again, everybody's got to fucking opinion with the stuff but use something akin to a super slow protocol, which is like five seconds up, five seconds down and then you can do six to ten reps, but I wouldn't increase the
Wait, until you get to, like, in 810 rep range, you can increase that for the legs, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I wouldn't make it complicated. I would say five seconds up, five seconds down, that's one. One thousand two, one thousand, slow and let's call it. Six to ten reps to failure. Positive or concentric. Failure means you're on the, in the case of 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
Squads of you when you're pushing out, not when you're lowering in the case of the close 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 to 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. It could be like overhead press or a military press and I'm equipment. Agnostic people can argue about free, weights versus machines, my position now is 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.
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 bent row with a barbell. Then for our legs. We already did. I think I was talking about split squats with dumbbells. So maybe this time it's like, press I have for instance, my right leg is one point one centimeters. I had full leg X-Rays done a year ago because
Number of doctors thought I was full of shit with this and I was like I really think one leg is longer than the other. I've looked at a number of ways, my right leg is about like femur length is like Point 8, cm to 1 Point 1 cm I do two takes of x-rays. 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 is persistent now for
Or two years or so. I've been 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. Am not ready to recommend any Laboratories related to the production or harvesting the stem cells nor any clinics. 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 I did not want to inject anything intra discal. I
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 disk. So I didn't want to do that 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 iliolumbar ligament, 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 effectively is old is your joints feel,
right? I really think there's something to that especially when you throw your
back out, you're like
yeah, you've never felt older than your life and when you have to crawl to your bed on your hands and knees, PS your
back. Yeah, thrown out. Yeah, Orleans. Your bed were like gift of constantly fidgets. Your back is bothering you. Yes.
Where I've started to think
there maybe for me some interesting interventions, because what we did is we did an injection. I mean the needles huge, that's like five to eight inches 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 couldn't take the recovery time for that. But to bathe around the ligament with these stem cells msc's and
Within literally within a day, I felt relief in that area. 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 set joints. And the vertebral body is the
Ments and so on. And if you're over the age of 40, your backs going to look fucked in
some way like it's gonna stop 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 become super interested based on my recent experience and I know friends from
Um, friction massage. You have seen tremendous back. Pain relief.
What is friction? Massage you could use
like a Gua Sha tool or
different ways like helping and shit like when they break the flash
up it's like a rapid pressure movement back and forth. Mmm. So you could use a Gua Sha tool to probably going to be too big for this particular area might use probably using manual therapy but I have friends who have seen incredible relief in 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 my left side which is untreated, but my left side, I considered the healthy side. I now realize it's actually in a lot of pain. So what I'm a do, I'm part of a clinical trial and you take a six month break between stem cells for a host of reasons. I may actually do PRP platelet rich. Plasma on that left side. Will see, get
the vampire facial while you're at it,
I'll get a two-for-one vampire for ya while I'm there.
Get the package deal. So hopefully that helps we only talked about one aspect of how 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 will inhibit my training. I will probably do something in the order of more. Like the 325 rep range, still doing it slowly enough that I feel like 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 do any type of like
muscle growth. What's your current regimen look
like for something like this? Because I mean you're not going from massive gains here so it's not like it'd be perfect. 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 be
training, I'll basically be training at the gym at
night before dinner and I will be skiing and taking very serious technical less.
Ins and trying some pretty gnarly stuff for me in terms of reasonably intelligent and shatter. No, no, no, not that intense no doing a halfpipe, no not halfpipe. I'm just talking about like, bumps and Backcountry stuff back to 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 gonna be physically intensive. I'll also be eating quite a lot of carbs, but probably I will, almost certainly get at least 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight.
I don't think that's Overkill. All
right. Yeah, and I'll show you one more
thing that's kind of fun. Yeah. And 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 like us, LIC us, which is so I've got this shit. What is this? And then another one over here if you're not seeing the video, it looks like he's
part. Cyborg Downs.
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. This is
why you're so chill right now. What's going on? What is this thing doing? No, no, this is kind of
lime soda. I mean, who knows? I don't think
so. This
is a device that safely administers low-intensity ultrasound over a period of one to four hours per site of treatment. So I currently have two of these coupling
Just one on the front of my shoulder one, at the rear of the shoulder, I have a bunch of tendinitis around the insertion points. Also, this has nothing to do
with your Hawaii trip. It's not like for those announced. This is what I've been playing with this for talking to
dolphins. No, no, this is for recovery but also the low intensity, continuous ultrasound. So like is all I see you. As 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 dot app 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 and low? Intensity continues ultrasound helps with tissue remodeling or Sports recovery. You'll get an answer, it's not perfect but it's actually very helpful. The initial indication 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
Years that will effectively reduce pain by. And this is not scientific description, but there are 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 use this within an hour, this acute pain in my shoulder, just vanished
Crazy. Now, could that be Placebo? Like, could be a placebo? What's the cost on
this? It's not you, yeah, which is why most people go into a clinic to use something like this but they get you with the razor blades approach. 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 two months. It's expensive.
How much of the patches
like a grand? A pop.
One box of for I think it's 4444 so it'd be like 16, patches, something like, 900 bucks. It's very expensive. But 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 if I as it becomes,
Seems more popular as the technology gets more developed as there's more competition. The price drops
tremendously. You know what's funny is I've seen in podcast, you know, you and I've been part of this word like you mention something that's like
3 Grand or whatever or something crazy. And
there's like well that Tim fucking rich guy can like afford all these things while blah but honestly what happens that I think is so beautiful about this stuff is like if you can get the higher end folks to like that want to go into,
Your men at the edges here. That have the disposable income, they're doing nothing. But dropping the prices for the masses because they have to ramp up production over time. And it's like it's funny. I've seen this happen so many times even drugs stuff as well. Like my first start taking repatha as an alternative to cholesterol meds and it wasn't covered out-of-pocket. It was like twenty five, hundred dollars a month is like ridiculous. And now Amazon has her for five hundred that's no insurance, you know, it's like it just it takes time for these things to come down and hit the masses. And and with those vo2max machines to the
You get a home. Now, I don't know if you mess around with those. I just got one of
those. It's insane,
it's insane, but it's great because you say, you don't have to go to the clinic and you can say the time, then eventually these will be less
expensive for everyone. Yeah, man. This we've seen it with who Burr right over black in the beginning was definitely a kind of a one percenter thing but it's subsidized the development of
I mean that was jet travel though as well.
UberX Tesla, same thing, there are many, many, many examples, I would say I'll give people some recommendations that are not expensive at all. Now 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, 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 getup even if you're just doing the first portion of that on the ground for shoulder Health mean, there's so many benefits to a handful of exercises in terms of injury prevention and you
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. And that, for instance, part of the reason I went back to that chapter is that the chop and lift exercise have a slow under control rotational component that I felt was not dynamically, but still compatible with getting me closer to
Developing or redeveloping the spinal engine that encima and young talks about, I was like, okay look, let me take small safe steps towards incorporating some very mild rotational exercises and that's why I'm starting this 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'm yeah, this is this has been my re-entry. We can after my 30
a 40 days of abstinence like wake up
immediately have a cold brew and then go to the gym. That's a big shot like Quine coffees. No. Joe that's like
less a strong stuff. It's so good. So my favorite coffee on the planet,
there's something about how did dark and dense
and it feels very nutrient rich like antioxidant-rich to me. Yeah, no, it's just, it's just us to Kona coffee is good. All right,
so we get a few other predictions and fun thing. Yeah, yeah. Let's do it. Okay. So,
Yeah, tons. I just gave several TED Talks. So you should. Yes. I'll just do. I'll do that a rapid-fire fun stuff here. So, damn January. I'm gonna drink a six or more strings or month. Moving on to invest. I like how you just ran through that one. Listen, the drinking thing. Well, I'm actually I'm coming back at some. You just know. I'm not drinking tonight. Look at that, look at that. Hey, baby steps, baby steps. One of the things I've realized, especially as you get
older, is it as life, gets more
complex. There has to be this kind of
continual especially as you have kids and other
things. Because continual
re-evaluating of your processes like every year, how can you turn down the knob and automate more things than you had the previous year, just for my own sanity? So eliminate more things to yes, yes. And so in that theme, I've gotten really simple and investing front like vast majority of my exposure. Is it true? Ventures?
Were we take a lot on a lot of
risk, that's what we do for our day jobs. 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. But he's in, it's great. What do you like about it? So there's a couple of Mount that 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 where line the world
meaning like big picture, anyone is my whole thing look like. Yeah exactly.
And so I would say that, you know, projection lab is good, kind of looking where you're spending in terms.
Of like how soon can I retire? And what is my retirement look like in planning for different scenarios? I think that's probably the best app out there. What was it called? Projection lab. Copilot is always been my favorite on mobile, but Monarch is now just a ties together. All my accounts in a view that I think is more data Rich. Especially in the budgeting side, then copilot. So, I've kind of started to move over to Monarch more full-time, which is great, those two and then
I'm drawing a blank of that the last one for the kind of, like, overview of everything going to kill me. Is it's a
fantastic? A premium? What's that PornHub? Premium. Exactly. So there's Tim, he's back, he's back everybody now I can't even blame it on the booze. Yeah. Exactly. Before you like I'm hammered do you actually buy their premium?
No, no,
no, not. You would answer him like okay. Yeah, I'm sure my public favorites. Yeah exactly. I'm.com
Tim Tim 20% off era. Kubera is my
overview app that I think is the best for like tracking of kind of your larger Investments and
like, oh, I was the name. No wonder, he forgot it. Kubera KUB era, I love
kubera. I think 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, I love that. I get the total stock
market index there. It's Vanguard it's low cost. It's like I want
Have the majority of my stuff in there. I have moved my crypto allocation to 10% of overall net worth from about four to five percent. Oh you increased your Holdings I increased now. Okay. Did you increase it or is that just
reflective of an increase in value? I increased it. You Pharmacy. Yes. I've
been buying more the last few months 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 think that he's going to push.
A massive crypto agenda and I believe that if this is the probably in the more prediction side, I think in the next couple of years were going to see for the very first time, the US government is going to start adding crypto to our reserves
will treat it as a currency that we hold in our reserves. And when that
happens, it's going to be nuts. I think we're going to hit my gut, says 250 to 150 thousand or more or
coin in the next couple of years. So we'll see where that goes. Now, if somebody less things, like Kevin's, just showing his
X. Would you say that? I would say, a lot of people said this, I don't know, like I was talking about I'm not no, no, I get it. But like this isn't. Here's the deal about showing your bags. I'm giving you the CSD final acts know that the know. But this is this is a real truth. Okay, 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 send a Kate this episode on our respective feeds but like we're not moving trillions of dollars of Bitcoin because
Cuz I say it's going into 150 a coin. 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 a dick like a little tiny tick because there's so much volume. No, matter of Schilling could move it in any meaningful way. It just can't happen. Now ten years ago you and I go on here talk about Bitcoin and we just made ourselves like, you know, 5 million bucks. But you know what I mean? Like that's not the case anymore. There's it's just too massive. So anyway, there's
There's no such thing as Shilling anymore, at least Vehicles, big one. If we're talking about shit coins which are happening a
lot right now. That's the 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 Quimby's has a feature called custody or you can't withdraw it for like three days enterprise-level self-control? Yeah, exactly. It's like a forest hold. I like doing it. And I had now stopped trading. And so, I don't even look at the price. I'm like, it's just
Part of my overall Holdings. I'm gonna hold it for the next 50 plus years that I want to hand my kids Bitcoin. It's gone from like when do I sell it? Like who is it too high? Should I sell right now? Like those days are over now it's just like part of the portfolio so it goes Its digital assets. It's not going away. You can't put digital assets back in the box like back in the tube or whatever, the where the genie comes out of the tube. Yeah. So you need back on the toothpaste tube. Yeah, exactly. So last thing
We'll say now, I do like to play, you know, do a little one off, stock buys, every now and then I got really lucky because we called Nvidia pretty
early on your podcast before which is
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 is going to be. I'm pretty bullish on the return of nuclear United States, just
Out of our Shear capacity for power that we need for data centers on the AI side. Like we need Alternative forms of energy,
especially if coal plants are, shut down.
Well, I mean, I don't think that's going to happen. I'm not saying all not saying all, if you want to play the broad basket and you're thinking about this over the long term, and I was speaking for myself is not investment advice, but I did find there's a fund that like holds, like, uranium manufacturers and some, like, nuclear plants and some of the companies that are thinking about, doing these new smaller plans, and so it's like,
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 say, hey this is the nuclear future is this one company, right? Because that to me would be like, it seems too much like an Angel Investing or something else. So anyway, the one I look at is the only one I could really find was in l r, which is the v-neck 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 and do it just because I think over
The next decade is going to outperform the SMP. That's all that's was for fun on the kind of
investment going into the new year and then I got a bunch of predictions. Yeah, throw some of the predictions up. Okay. So prediction number one, Bitcoin hits. 250 US government starts adding it to, you think that's in 2025, I think that is in
the next two years. So I'll kick that out. Say, with 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
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 a I related things. And if that's the case, I kind of just want to hold those stocks open a.i. 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 the opening. A launch is some type of mobile device, may be some type of smart headphones this coming year because they have to
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 Syria or whatever and now you have that same going on with Jim and I 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, you beauty so I can go and switch it out as my sister short.
That's all it and it's like if it's like 90% is good, people won't care. You know what I mean? It's like, 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 like, that's kind of weird that. Yeah, we'll see. You see think of like, where could they get the wedge in the door, right? The headsets interesting, right? Because if they made a really good set of Base,
Basically
earpod clones of some type, but the intelligent with a I built in. Yeah, 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 already use those, but they could replace wireless earbuds.
The only way, I think they would have a chance at replacing 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 ux that
Just haven't even imagined yet. I heard there were working with Jony Ive 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 a, I 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 be a different interface that makes us way more sexy, more fun, because, like the future is not going to be, hey, I'm going to go launch, hotels.com app and say, get me a
A room in Japan in two weeks, negotiate all 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 I'll be like, which room do you want these three things? I love on you. Like this room is like boom is 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 the 15-minute
thing. I mean I guess what someone like opening I could do is
Something along the lines of a fantasy. I've had for a long time which is like a very dumb phone that I remember last year almost a year ago is telling my friends would be great to have a one button phone and 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.
West button for everything, right? And that's it just to avoid the metastasized mess of having 1,000 apps. And so many people 1,000 notifications and all that bullshit 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.
In to 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. Just nothing else. So you could Envision something that is effectively the one button phone but it's using an AI system through this opening. I had a cent. 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 may be that, I still need to call
or hail an Uber at this corner and see what is pulling up, right? Like Maps, maybe we were and then
music probably yeah music and like credit cards like that's
right. You don't need nothing else. He's acting like a I 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.
Although have apis with all this stuff. The install base guys, for
everything. Yeah. And
coming back to what we were saying earlier to, it's like,
okay, well most people are not going to replace their fun with that but could they get 100,000
And techies to overpay for that to do the basically field testing for them. Sure they could 100%
almost certainly as the technology kind of mature is behind the scenes. I mean this is the Playbook that I think is finally starting to work for meta where they have these Ray-Ban glasses that it's the first time I've seen a meta progress. I've said, okay, I mean, we've been talking to the VR and AR for so long and how stupid it is. As long as this shows, been around, I know Adam because all, he still owes me.
Bottle
of whiskey because he thought it was gonna win out, but it's in your book.
Yeah. So Ray-Bans finally is really starting to hit for meta in that. Like, you know, you can walk up to people now in Japan and like it real times of translations, right? Like and you don't even look like
you're wearing anything real time. Doxing to you see the Harvard student, who
figured out, how to use the Ray-Ban
glasses to immediately docks everyone
you can be a guy, are you? So and so who researches stones with like, oh my God, you know, it's like because
they're getting a try to read out,
Yeah, you get the
Terminator readout, totally little higher Fidelity than those Graphics back then. But yeah. So, a couple things will real quick on the predictor front and then I'm done. But I think Microsoft releases an Android phone largely because they have the sweet there. They have word, they have Excel, they have PowerPoint. They have Drive. They have all the stuff Outlook, you name it. I think it'll be android-based and they have chat GPT. So I think on the open a.i. side, that will probably be integrated into the Microsoft phone. 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 it also be android-based, 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 that Gmail and chrome and everything they baked in. If it is
android-based, this is such a Luddite 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 a.i. 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 in what you have to bundle, but I believe because if I look at Samsung phones and they have their own browser and they have their own email and everything else and they're based on Android that they could do the swap here because Samsung already does it on the eye side and everything else? Lastly, I think we'll get some type of confirmation of aliens and then one last thing.
Which I think is will see, is we're going to see a very massive unlocking 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 we
can't even tell wasn't shot. You know? And it's like 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 that they can be a real producer for the first time because I've seen some of
these early betas and they're a lot of fun. I think that's the next 12 months. Maybe 18 Max, I think 80 and sounds. Alright. So you
skipped over damped January which is fine, I'll let that sit. Yeah. Yeah. Aliens what was so tell me more about the aliens and what the hell is going on in New Jersey? Honestly, I just think it'd have been ignoring. Yeah, I hand is kind of to there's been this. I feel in the last three years and I got a really awesome chances.
That Navy fighter pilot that saw some of these things and 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, we don't have to get into politics, whether you love him, or hate him, or
anything else. But when you have someone like Elon
Musk in there being a Lon, like I can see this shaking free or at least the
uncovering of whatever we
know in this domain, being kind of Declassified and
That to me is just horribly scary /. Exciting at the same
time. Yeah, who knows crazy? Yeah, I
mean, what are the odds that you would Place? Honestly, I in my head, it's like
90%, there's it like aliens out there that we know about it as a government. Guess we haven't talked about this because I don't want to sound like fucking 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 too.
See what we can say with any degree of certainty, in what we can't say, with any degree of certainty. And looking at government reports, looking at various first-person 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, Tic Tac may see some benefit or a
All like every human being on social media to getting attention, right? So you have to add that in as a possible contributing factor, what can we conclude based on the available data and what seems to be the case if you're looking at you APS, right? Sees this is what unidentified aerial phenomena. Now the Rebrand from UFO, so you don't sound like someone wearing a tinfoil hat 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, a 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. 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 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 UFO. Okay? So there's also a bunch of that
Taking all 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 and its roots of things. Why would they risk?
That's right, life and
injury. That's why I don't think it's that, I think it is true or some, dude,
you're right. It could be
tourism. And the ones that rack are like the ones that you hear about it. When Africa, when people go to Safari and they have too many drinks and they just like fucking crashing to run a service and then like get eaten or whatever, it's like a some of these aliens are coming down here and it has to be something like that. It had a few Bev's and they just think it's fucking wreck their shit, like, Teenage alien. Two eyes. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Weird glow, glow. Go.
Fuck. Yeah.
It's kinda early again. Do drink with you. Yeah, I mean, maybe, maybe right. I do think there are many
more questions than answers, of course. But actually, no, I'll give a shout out. There is an app called Enigma, which runs machine learning on UAP sightings mmm. 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. I'm actually just going to double
Check, did you see moment of contact, by the way? Nope.
Oh, you gotta see this. Yeah. So Enigma is Enigma Labs dot
IO. Make a note of this moment of contact. It's a Netflix documentary about this 1996 crash in Brazil and it's like these citizens, dozens of them, saw not only the crash but the freaking aliens wander around the neighborhood after the crash and then
These military things came in. It's worth it. It's worth it. It's like e.t. But in Brazil I put on an alien documentary like once a year Netflix doesn't add up. Yeah, he is like is like hey you might like this on like JJ
Abrams production company Bad Robot, they made some UFO miniseries. I watched that on an airplane today that's when you watch that kind of thing.
Yeah, exactly. It's so I watch this one and I was like, wow, holy shit, like it's pretty compelling. Let me throw out a couple
of alternate explanations.
Or like supplemental explanation. So one when you see these reports, right? Like the vast majority of alien. Abduction reports are like rednecks. Getting pulled up by 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 a help road? Is it always anal probes? Well, there is a lot of probing typically and yeah, but it is weird. What's going on there? Why do they return them like take him? I don't know, I don't know.
Where is going to go is like the reports also of the appearance of
These aliens, right? So what you often see is like The 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
Drug like 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 fuck knows? But I'm saying like there could be a component of that. The other one is you know, my thought is if we take as a possibility that there are
aliens from God
knows where we're somehow getting
NG to Earth by like bending. The time-space Continuum to get here from gazillions of light years away. Somehow in these craft. Hmm. Then wouldn't it be equally plausible that these crafts are sent by time-traveling humans. Basically descendants of us that are like wow we really fucked that up. Let's try to send back like an intervention. Team it.
Sounds crazy. I don't think it's, I don't think it's any crazier than aliens figuring out how to get here from a gajillion light years away to go on Safari and anal. Probe rednecks. Like
its name, doesn't strike me as any stranger would you 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 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 explanations?
Earlier, when I'm delving into some of the very weird edges of things that I've done over the last 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 in the toolkit is simply to say, let me try to strongman against whatever my current explanation is right. So, in the case of the nuclear sites it seems like there's a disproportionate number of reports and
DS. 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. That among the human populace. Brain cancer is just on this crazy parabolic rise, but it's probably just because our diagnostic tools to become better.
Right our Imaging tools are catching things earlier, they're more sophisticated, similarly at these nuclear sites 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. 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 may be State actors, China. Oh, for sure, they'd be very interested Soviet Union for sure. But some of the propulsion and aeronautic behaviors of these craft do not seem to reflect technology that's available to any current state actor, including the United States, which raises all sorts of questions. But there's some very strange stuff out there. It is a very, very very
Small single digit percentage of the total reported or documented phenomena but yeah, it's strange. 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. I just get a group of people go out there and just do all the level you have. What do you mean? I like this world. There's a lot of UFOs showing up. You know, there's something that's places ever supposed to be better for, like viewing
UFOs. Yeah, that would be
fun. Just scared. I mean like week when I was a kid,
I remember driving 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, thanks what food, and then just shot off. We all saw it and I was just like what the fuck was that? No idea. But we all saw the same thing. Yeah so who knows there was a fair amount of military testing out there so maybe who knows? That's crazy. Go figure. It's all right, so that's the aliens. That's all I got are pseudo.
Lance. 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, we will come out organically. So you talking about protein. I'll mention a few things that might be of interest to folks. So while I've been here, I've been on the go. Also talked about why I seem so chill, 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
These. So, you've seen these venison sticks. Yeah. Axis, deer venison sticks. Now, we knew a venison. It's the most nutrient-dense red meat that you can get. And the most ethically harvested, in my opinion. Read me that you can get what's interesting about this one. This is a brand-new product, I've been consuming two or three of these today. It's basically a multivitamin in me Product because it has, this is called Pepper Ten, and it's got 10%, liver and heart. In addition to Z the muscle. And it is
Edible how much nutrient density, you get from that and then the other one which I don't actually have any official relationship with whatsoever but shout-out to also Peter Tia who we both know who's the chief science officer but this is David so the yes. David bars have incredible protein per calorie ratios. 28 grams protein, 150 calories. So yeah when I am traveling especially when I'm traveling. This is basically the kit. Yeah, I do the David bars
to there.
Goodwin was limbs easy for me but the blueberry ones, really good.
Yeah, some of them are a little too sweet for my palate. But also, there is a point where I'm like, I cannot eat another venison stick because I etal many of those per week and we're in Maui, meaning, my team at iron Maori right now because we wanted to visit Maui Nuit Kyle. 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 models important to highlight because there is a lot of good. You can do through sort of market-driven solutions and in this case with many new venison does, people don't know Axis deer were introduced. They're originally from India to Hawaii by King Kamehameha.
The third or fifth. I can't recall, exactly. They have no natural predators. And now there are
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 now he knew he does is they harvest these deer meaning they shoot them in the field at night for Louis stress levels for the
Moles. And it's incredibly well run. Their sort of efficiency ratio is as good as say, slaughterhouses for cattle, which are very stressful for the animals, rather factory-farmed, then they're put into shoots there, literally held in place and then boom, like, bolt in the head. This for my money is infinitely more ethical. I mean, the animals Wild and Free Living its life until the very instant, that it instantaneously expires.
Then they package that and they sell it, but what they also do best way to
go. Yeah, let's just go out of my new field.
We're like old, like, they'll just put us up to
yell at someone when we can no longer harness, our spinal engine. So I gots time to put Kevin out to pasture. Yeah. Just give him a doughnut and a couple of beer having sitting at a table. Okay. And now a new, it's all green. I'm like Tim why did you bring me the money new ID. So nice here, I'm not very retirement home. You know, you're going to love it. I love it.
So what I did here, this trip which I had always wanted to do, but I've never done is, I went on a hollow eye and a Holo, I harvest is for the community here in Maui. So the hollow I 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 covert lockdowns and what the Maui Nui team did is they completely sort of revamped everything. So they could first.
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 this 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 this is a disaster. Level crisis and change their business model and they have shared more than 120,000 pounds.
Of venison, meaning donated since the 2023 fires. It's amazing. So there are a lot of Partners and other people who've 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, our outing. I mean, you go out. They have Fleur infrared cameras and Scopes. They have display monitors. They're capturing information, which is like a current stop. No shot, current stop shot.
Not and they have like, laser identifications for the Rover's where the people to then, go and, like, retrieve the deer. And I went through the butchering process, I wanted to get better butchering. So it's like I actually butchered. I don't know six or seven, dear on this trip. It's amazing and
you take some meet with you or no? Oh of course.
Yeah 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 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 and other side into you feel conflicted. I don't.
It's funny you
And that because it's like, I get if you're a vegetarian or vegan out there and you're like,
I don't see eye-to-eye 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 put down the animal that I ate it from, like there's a big disconnect there like, it wasn't just a couple of generations ago, we were doing that. You know what 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 at UT. I'm hunting with my dad once
It, you know, when I was I've certainly done a shit ton of fishing and you know it's not the easiest thing to put down a big-ass salmon either but like you know 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 yeah. Deeply inspiring me and they use everything. Yeah. From these animals and in there effectively restoring an ecosystem right? Hmm. They are feeding the local community.
Tea and they're providing the most nutrient-dense. Yes, you can
perch in the bringing back traditions of things that like dice idea that there's a lot of chefs 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 of using all the different aspects of the animal for either consumption or product use or whatever. Maybe 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 a legal because you don't want people poaching on public land and then selling meat which can lead to over killing and all sorts of issues with Wildlife Management, cause imbalancing. So the operation is incredibly unique in that respect and there are
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 grounds and they make an exception for mounting doing this. The only meat that they consume. So anyway, that was this trip. So my team got to ride around in these ATVs and see the displays and really see them.
Process. How does that not surprise me? That every single one of your team? Like if you work for Tim Ferriss and and you're like you're like Hey we're going on the hunt tonight, like is there one person's going to know you like you're fucking fired. No, did I fire them? I wouldn't fire them. I mean it's I'm kidding of Jimmy. Yeah. It's, you know, it's quite a bit like to take a but what I wanted to
do and this is actually not my idea. This is the suggestion of one of my employees they wanted first-hand experience with
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 and in Colombia and Suriname and other places, but that would have involved two weeks off the grid and would have been very complicated from
Logistics perspective. Maybe they're talking about your psychedelic donations even feeling where, what was this? Looks like the Psychedelic research. They even doing that. I don't think I feel comfortable sending my voice to the 17th Dimension, just yet.
But who knows so that's what I've been up to and then
on the calming side yeah you're like a to on you typically like a nice toasty seven or eight simmering some very chill.
Yeah. So I'd say chill certainly Hawaii help certainly get, sleep helps exercise helps but Valium
feel like I took. So he's dying before I start of the show, I've got the like this on this shoulder. I've got my morphine drip on.
The other exact your iPad
shouts, no release is not morphine. 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 five-day bout let's just call it or treatment with it.
A TMS had the greatest durable impact on my generalized anxiety that I've ever experienced. This includes psychedelics therapies, The Accelerated TMS, which is a non-invasive treatment using transcranial, magnetic stimulation over five day period. In this case, where you're getting treated, basically eight minutes every hour on the hour for 10 hours a day. It's very involved. Like when you're doing it that's all you're doing for effectively a week and it was phenomenal. And I will almost certainly do it again but five days.
Is is a lot and I wanted to see if I could do it with less. So first, I tried a two-day booster met a bit of single day, booster, and it was not enough, did nothing. Then I went back and this is going to California, and I did 3-day booster also not enough. So I just wasted a lot of time. A lot of money trying to round down a didn't do anything. And I find 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
Pensive to do this and it's very time-consuming. So I then was looking at different meditation options and this has since become a company that I'm very heavily involved with.
But the way Henry schuckman, your man
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 ten minutes and I was very skeptical.
Because I did TM transmittal meditation back in the day, which is 20 minutes twice a day and I assume that 10 minutes like yeah it'll be kind of relaxing but it's really not going to have much of a cumulative effect that was completely wrong. Doing ten minutes in the morning. Ten 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 do anything else? That is non-negotiable and doing those 10 minutes twice a day.
It has been incredible because it has effectively gotten me to, I think a similar level of lower generalized, anxiety, that I got from spending 30 to 50 Grand to do this experimental shit TMS therapies, which that is all-inclusive, right? So that's like the treatment, the hotel's, the flights, so on and so forth, 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 cannot recommend this therapeutic intervention because this is as good as it gets. And the idea that you can meditate 10 minutes a day with a nap and people can check it out. The way app.com is,
The app Henry Shipman has the most relaxing voice you'll ever hear in your life. And I think the app gives you 30 sessions for free. So you can see no real flavor for it. It's not like, oh, you get two chances and least one. 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 is coming to see. Now I've sent like a million looms
two co-founders as product feedback without no,
I want to pay for it because if there's a glitch in the system
System. I want to know what the glitches 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 D either notice or not notice in effect. But what else would you say about about Henry?
I will say that what is a challenging thing that always navigate on the
investment stuff? Although I love my new as well, I just ordered the sticks, the ten sticks, it was going to be good. So good, not investor there, but I
I do
love the product is like, the 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 running,
right? And you were like, oh man, I don't know. Like 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 would really put it through
your own personal.
Are deep dive? Yeah, and then the first thing is, I get on the phone, call with the team because I did we do investor updates with them. Are I do miss ruffit's with them because I love the round every month. And they're like, Yeah, Tim seems like another 10 looms, like he's got all his feedback, he's got all his feedback and he's like, and they were quick to implement that stuff. Yeah, send one of
the fastest teams to update
product, 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 during before he had nap 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 2 minute meditation. Another woman meditation of the like, how can I just like, productized meditation and sell meditation. And like this is like a real zen master,
teaching course that it's for people that really,
you may have tried, comrade space, but you want to go deep deep
and really go for something much bigger here 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, the knowledge transfer. It's just you can feel it, you know? And it's also its
skill development, right? It's not pleasant story. Does your 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.
Mint and I logical progression, which you notice like 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 at sit where you're focusing on a version and you can label it. And then, for instance, I went out to dinner two nights later. This was table of ladies who had a few too many drinks, and they were cackling like fucking crazy and
Normally, I would just, I would sit there just seething, right? And 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 be like, well, if nobody's gonna
talk to her, like, how are they going to learn? And like, nobody else is gonna go over there. So I have a moral obligation to like be like, hey, ladies and then if they're like a pal, fuck yourself. Then I'm gonna be like, all spun out and dysregulated sitting down to, like, eat my cheese cake, like, trembling and fury. So I was like, Oh, and it.
Popped up and as soon as it popped up I
was like a version. You're experiencing a
version and I used exactly the skill that I had practice, two
days before some in the meditation I was like boom and it diffused 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, how can you bring into everyday life? And what I also like about it is, it doesn't let you skip you have to follow the program for good reason. You don't.
It to
skip around indulging, your whim and impatience you have to follow through. So if you try to skip ahead,
it's like a 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. It's good stuff. It's perfect. Time to use New Year's like get a New Year's resolution. This is like going to be. It's 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 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 and I'm going to run out of Henry, but I have so much left.
It's great. Also you're going to come with me to the seven-day or true. We got to make
that happen this year like a dim person one.
Yeah, I'm good. We'll do a five day one. Look, I'm open to it. Please don't eat them mushrooms before you.
Yeah, fast for six days. Need microdose, while I'm doing it from. Yeah,
probably Overkill. You probably have some PTSD from
that 10 and was not a wise set of decisions. There were, there were bad. Decisions were made on my part.
I'd be game to talk about that. So let's talk about actually New Year's resolutions for a second. Yeah,
this ties in. 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 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. I can stead of thinking about New Year's resolutions. Think about New Year's reservations
nears. Reservations, what does that
mean? It means what are you putting in your calendar so if it's not
On your calendar. It's not real, right? It's like okay, so if you want to like exercise, you this and this and this like higher trainer or book a program or buy a membership get time in your calendar, right? So what are your New Year's resolutions? And for me, the core of that is extended periods of time with close friends, those people who I know are going to give me energy, we're going to leave me feeling better about my life in the and the
World and optimistic. Those are the relationships. I want to invest in, so I go through the year. And for instance, january-february, it's like a prevent to the 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 later January. I don't know. Yes, on our list. Yeah, I'm gonna buy some skis to do some awesome. So, yeah, it's gonna be, it's gonna be
fantastic and I'll give you another example and you're invited. I haven't actually talked to anybody about this. I did.
On the sly but next August I booked a week in the Rockies for Alpine survivalist training with this amazing Outdoorsman. And I'm going to invite, you know 57 guys do 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 details for this type
of thing. I've always loved that shit, you know. Like with yeah, Eagle Scout being a Boy
Scout like one of the big little tunnels that I can.
Sleepin and shit in the fucking ice and shit. Like I'm totally down. So we'll have Adventures like that, and it doesn't have to be a week-long. It could be a long weekend, right? It could be, yeah. Every year, some of my closest friends come and that depends on the cast of characters, like, it's not always the same people every year, but for like a annual reunions in the summer of old friends, and in this case, if I do get questions about this sometimes I well, why isn't it a mixed group? It's not a mixed gender group. Because unfortunately, in modern society, especially on the coast,
People tend to get highfalutin and fancy and brainwash themselves into all sorts of unproductive things that there are very few socially acceptable male-only activities or groups. Just not many options outside of perhaps certain Sports environments. So since that is a rarity people are by default going to be in mixed groups. And I think women generally do a very good job and it's socially 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. So for me I feel like the gift I can give is blocking out a few options for people over the year. Take them away from their wives you know for a
week. Yeah give it a given. Yeah, really good. Well you got some time only kids and yeah yeah yeah.
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 shit together, right? And there just aren't many options for doing that and the beauty of saying setting this up and having reservations and it doesn't only apply to men. It applies to women to like if you don't cultivate and nourish those friendships, they will atrophy. They will go away.
Yeah, it's interesting. I
Convince my wife Daria to like
do these social things with women because it's not her DNA to do that. Yes, like tonight I was like I'm gonna record
podcasts you so keep going on my girlfriend
like awesome, go do that, take some time, have a moment, go get a massage, like whatever you got to do, like to prep for the holidays, like, you deserve it, and it's so important to have those breaks. It's important to have the brakes. And I mean, this idea that can't remember where I read this recently, but I was reading a piece, this idea that you're going to spend 24/7 together with
Your partner is a very new idea, relatively speaking. Yeah. And get everything in anything from your partner unreasonable. That's nice. I like, yeah, they're everything. The end up being your therapist, your partner, your best 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 45 and they're not all week long and they're not all dedicated time. 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 always only. 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 block and these things out there in the calendar. They will knock it crowded out by other things. So, that's a big one out of it. Yeah. Great.
And then other news
finished my knob Nom, which is no booze, no masturbating 30 day challenge which a lot of my readers and fans join me.
Eon. I also did no coffee. So I was a lot of tea but I didn't do coffee and it was a fantastic reset. And in the last week, well, not to get too TMI but it's like, okay, all of those things have been reintroduced and I'm like, yeah you just want to town. I really liked the cleansing of the dopamine palette and 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
Many people will be visiting but very, very either. Completely dry for January.
It's a bit like, so angular visiting. I just gonna have to, like, masturbating the measurements of my friends coming over kind of party is this. I didn't get the memo Tim's back on. Like just give them a few minutes. Like, he's like, yeah, sorry, Stan. He's been deprived himself like he needs him ever. It's not as bathroom. Was that? Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah, so no, that's the alcohol side. So, you know, all that stuff. I think I might continue all of that for January. I will say, but it really was a fantastic reset. And I think contributed to the lowered anxiety, and kind of a chill. I am right now, frankly. Yeah, and there was an interview, I think Peter Tia did with a psychiatrist female psychiatrist who is saying when somebody comes in and say there are a heavy cannabis user and they use it for like reducing anxiety and chronic pain or whatever. Actually, in this case wouldn't be
Chronic pain, it would be, they're using it for what they believe to be reducing anxiety. But they've developed this sort of hedonic adaptation to the Cannabis consumption 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 canvas used for two to four weeks and lo and behold in many cases. Anxiety, drops the floor. Yeah, just by that intervention. And that was partially, what inspired me to do? The 30 days of abstinence from
These things is to see. Okay, what does it look like to reset the system? And it's great. Nothing against those things 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
And for a few hours, rather than sitting at a coffee shop where it's like, there's a fixation with Beverages and it's like, yeah, or if you're in a restaurant, and they just like, Diner, they keep pouring coffee or like and before, you know it, you've had five cups Cinema, some of the things on my mind, what else you got? Kevin? Anything else you'd like to
add? I'm in the same boat as you it with the alcohol stuff. It's so funny how the last few years. If you go back, it's been like, oh, I'm gonna 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 with all the holiday parties
and things that I've had, I'm like, I
just have
to understand, they're going to be moments
when you go out and you have a couple drinks with friends, but it has to be an occasion, not just a night at home, where you're like, oh, let's pop a bottle wine and have some alcohol. 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 is kind of makes you not hungover, 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 Eve. 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. It also fucks up your sleep, right? So I mean the big one is
He's like, yeah, it's going to reduce your anxiety for two to three hours and then you're going to feel like, dog shit for twelve. So and some people handle it better than others. But what I've 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. Yeah, well, I mean by that is if I know I have a half-day ski lesson that starts it 8:30 or eight AM depends on the snowfall and then I have more training later that night if I have
Two or three drinks that before I'm going to be punished. 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. If I don't have that in place, 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.
Oops. Well yeah. You know the more movement or exercise the more everything else Falls in line. My experience. Agreed. Yeah. All right man. Well I'm excited for 25. I got all ya. G she
coming. I'm super stoked. We're going to hang resuming at South by. Well do ya see you in
January but chorus yeah. No we're going to see each other in Jan and then got a lot of fun stuff going for South by. Yeah, we'll have to let people in on that at a later date in terms of when to come hang with us. But yeah, we're going to do a little, I'll do something. Do something on stage is
Fun around that time. 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. Give your family the best. Yeah,
same to you, man. Same to you and yours. And for everybody, listening will put links to stuff, we mentioned in the show notes, Tim Doyle blog, / podcast, and we'll put everything in there. And I'll give one more rack, 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 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 tick, not Han so tick, not hon. I've been a fan of forever and his books, had a huge impact on me, but I'd never heard his voice. I never heard his voice in, this is a
Did retreat with guided meditations and is Audrey. Yeah, it's made from tick, not Han. And it is 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 Grease the groove for me to be more open to this. And when I've just been like laying in the bath, after doing a bunch of activities, after my night artist 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 Big Cypress. Grayson on the
podcast. No way. Yeah, yeah. Holy shit. I gotta go. Listen to that. Was it good? It was
outstanding. Yeah. He 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.
I'm like halfway through it and I just like I can't put it down. Like it's so good. Professor / dr. Grayson is a very credible research or this guy is not like hand-wavy. Woo, guy and Beads offense to be its, but you get the idea. He's not like the archetype of some guy who's got like a heavy dose of conspirators reality and can't really sort fact, from fiction. This is, this is a very credible researcher and he is fascinating. You know, I debated to having him on the podcast or not for quite a long.
Long time and then I realized what am I so afraid of like I actually feel quite good about his documentation, the research is put out and his observations, don't ring as wildly speculative and these are documented phenomenon, 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 having and hawing for probably a year or two.
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 in, sorry sober, fascinating account of a well-reported phenomena. That is poorly understood that he is researched for several decades. Now, at this point, yeah, which he became interested in quite
Slowly 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 I take it when the podcast came out a couple years ago. No podcast, came out
like a few months ago. Ouchies I got this is re s awesome. Yeah, he's a that's fun. I'll link to the dr. Grayson episode as well for folks after didn't Daria also read
that. Yeah, that's how I had it was in my audible
Library. She said, I've got to read this and that when you share inaudible library to see what your partner's buying,
Yeah, cool. And so, like, I just downloaded and yeah, it's been awesome. Dig it, awesome brother. Well, lovely to
see you as always give a hug to dar dar and
the kiddos and toasty for
me will do. Please pet Molly for me and tell your friends. I said hello and I will happy holidays, brother. I love you and I'll see you in Jan. Yeah, love you too buddy. I'll see you in
January. Happy Holidays. Happy holidays.
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