#129: Recommendations and Resolutions for 2016 - Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss

Out for a half mile before my hands start shaking.

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Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show. This is a special episode with Kevin Rose Revisited. Kevin is a very close friend of mine. He now lives in New York. He is a well known entrepreneur, venture capitalist. He's an advisor to Google Ventures, also now CEO of Hodinki. He was formerly involved with Watchville and is now in the luxury goods market that is being disintermediated and disrupted with technology. Very interesting fellow. And we often do a video show together called the Random show or we used to when we lived in San Francisco together, but he's now in NYC. I am usually an SF and we have not done many of these shows, so we decided to give audio a shot and please let us know if you enjoy this. And here we go, the random show with Timbo and Kev Kev hello ladies and gentlemen, this is Tim Ferriss and.

This is Kevin Rose. Welcome to a brand new edition of the Random show. Happy 2016.

Happy 2016. Happy New Year, man. It's going to be an exciting year. I can feel it in my bones. My old man bones. What did I do in 2016 so far?

Just like what did you do for New Year's? I want to know where you were what you did?

I decided to bring my parents and brother to the Bahamas because they had last been 36 years ago when I was two years old and had always reminisced and spoke of the Bahamas fondly and pined after returning. And I just decided or observed that none of us are getting any younger and decided to bring everybody here for Christmas and New Year's, which I'm in a very fortunate position to be able to do, of course. But what I realized, because this is the second time I've taken my family on a trip for Christmas and New Year's, is that when you set plans, say early in the year or even halfway through the year, you get at least six months of anticipation and talking about it and dreaming about it and brainstorming things you're going to do with your family. And it's at least half the benefit is just being able to put it in the calendar and have the benefit of that anticipation. It's kind of like as a kid looking forward to Christmas, but you just have to schedule your own Christmas since generally as an adult, you're not running down the stairs in your pjs to tear things open. But that's what I did. What about yourself?

I was just here in New York and it was pretty relaxing. But for Christmas, I actually went out to Las Vegas, of all places. My family's based out there. So I had my wife's family and my family get together at a resort, the Red Rock casino out there. And we actually watched Star wars and just kind of chilled and had some good food and yeah, it was awesome.

Do you have any particular routine or ritual just before New Year's or on New Year's or after New Year's?

Every year we talk about New Year's resolutions. I don't really stick to them, but I've definitely have that ritual of the very next morning, like just starting things anew and trying to track what it is I'm trying to achieve this coming year. So I did that this year as well. I've got another list of things you're.

Not going to follow.

Yeah, exactly. Although, you know me, I've done a few things in the past. Like, for example, I haven't had a soda. This marks my 16th year without having soda, which is kind of.

No kidding. I didn't know that, actually. 16. Wow, that's great.

Yeah, it was just one of those things where it was New Year's 2000. Everyone was telling and sitting around and talking about the resolutions and I was like, you know, I've kind of wanted to give up soda. It's one of those things where it's just, for me, it was something I would consume a couple of times a day. Back then, I would crack open a Dr. Pepper or coke or whatever, and I didn't do any of that diet crap. I just went full sugar. I guess it would be full corn syrup, even worse. But I was doing that, and then I had to get off of it. I was like, gosh, I got to start really watching my health, and this was kind of the first step in that direction. And so I gave it up, and I weaned myself off initially. The first few months were extremely difficult, and I was able to do it by actually using a substitute. So for me, that was juice.

I was waiting for. Heroin. Exactly.

Yeah, it was crank, and I just got really addicted. No, but seriously, I started doing juice, and juice would give me that kind of sugar high that I was used to getting from soda. Still not ideal. But then from there, I was able to slowly kind of dilute my juice down, consume less sugar. Listen, sugar addiction. And soda addiction is a real thing.

No, I was just imagining you with a t shirt on that says, dilute my juice.

You need to start a t shirt company.

I don't know why. Yeah, I do. My budies and I were talking. We were just kind of pulling these weird combinations of words that came up in conversation after a few glasses of wine. There was another one called journeyman paluka. And the paluka. Apparently I should look this up, but a paluka, I think, is effectively, it's like the Jimmy Jones of professional wrestling. Those guys with real human names whose sole purpose is to get thrown around and destroyed by the guys who have the cool names like the rock.

Right.

And so someone who's sort of continually. Here we go. A mediocre or inferior boxer. That's it. A paluka is a person. P-A-L-O-O-K-A. Although there's uka also is the guy they bring into the training camp to make the champ feel good when he's training. So he just gets to body shot them and knock them down, right?

Totally.

That's a paluka. So someone who is basically forever a career paluka is a journeyman paluka. But not sure how we got onto that.

We're going to create a t shirt out of that.

Yeah. I've been thinking about doing t shirts for a while,