Kevin & Alex Reminisce Diggnation History (#64)

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Kevin Rose

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Alex Albrecht joins Kevins to take a trip down memory lane. They reminisce about Diggnation, and their wildest drunken moments, including the infamous Reno episode and various escapades during live shows. Kevin and Alex share their experiences with Bitcoin mining, discussing their investments' highs and lows, and the perpetual f*ckery of sobriety. Tune in next week for part II, Diggnation style!

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Alex Albrecht is known for his significant contributions to technology and entertainment. He is a podcast host, television personality, and tech entrepreneur. Alex gained popularity as the co-host of "The Screen Savers" on TechTV and later co-created and co-hosted the popular podcasts "Diggnation" and "The Totally Rad Show." He has also ventured into directing, writing, and game development.

Listeners can learn more about Alex Albrecht at his website, and on X @alexalbrecht

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Show Notes:

* (0:00) Introduction

* (0:55) Dram: Try the Kevin Rose Show sparkling drink sampler + 20% off everything

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* (4:30) Reno’s drunken chaos

* (9:00) Hair of the dog

* (14:55) Reminiscing time in Japan

* (17:25) Tokyo high-rise party

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* (22:08) Enjoy 30 Free Guided Meditation Sessions with The Way App

* (23:33) Latest for Alex

* (23:50) Bitcoin mining stories

* (34:30) Reflecting on health and aging

* (35:19) “Look, if we're lucky, we've got 20 more years of being healthy and able to do whatever we want.”

* (41:10) 90 days without alcohol

* (48:30) The perpetual f*ckery of sobriety

* (51:30) Tune in 7/9/24 for a classic Diggnation

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0:00.0	How's everything been? How's your family been? How's the life been?
0:02.4	People are going to wonder, like, what's Alex been up to?
0:04.7	God, yeah.
0:05.8	Please welcome back to the show. Kevin Rose and Alex.
0:08.6	Watch the floor.
0:10.6	Oh, fuck me. Help me.
0:11.4	We probably encouraged an entire generation to drink way too much.
0:15.4	I mean, yes.
0:18.9	We were backstage, and it was like, stay hot everybody. We were backstage, and it was like, stay high to everybody.
0:21.6	We were backstage and it was like 3,000 seats and they were all filled in this big British guy who was like the security guard.
0:29.1	He's like, what are these guys doing here?
0:31.2	And we were like, we do the show.
0:32.5	And he goes, they're just here for the beer.
0:34.1	And we were like, okay, dude, just chill.
0:36.1	And that's when we finished the show so
0:38.6	all 3,000 people start getting onto this platform the giant security guard grabbed both of us
0:44.8	and he was like you are serious they were here for you and we were like yeah for a photo
0:49.5	i've never seen there like that.
0:57.1	Remember back in the day when we would like have to work around the holidays, we like try to figure out how to like gang shoot, like do all this stuff.
1:00.4	Well, we figured out.
1:01.2	Gang shoot?
1:02.0	Gang shoot where you shoot like four, two, four episodes in a row.
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