Best Holiday Gifts Under $100 That We Actually Use
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I figure I could give people some
maybe holiday gift ideas.
>> Oh, yes. I've got some great ones.
>> First thing I can recommend, something
you can fit in your pocket. So, this
right here looks like a golf ball with
little not quite spikes, but like studs
on it. They're flattened. This is called
a rubs ball. R U BZ. And I travel with
this. You just roll out your feet on
this before you go to bed. And I have
felt this help everything from relaxing
and just winding down.
>> What I have noticed, and this is
something I spoke with Ed Con about 100
years ago, long time ago. He's the
greatest powerlifter of all time, a
phenomenal athlete and very nice guy.
But basically, if you address your feet,
sometimes you feel it all the way up the
kinetic chain. Lower legs, knees, even
your low back can sometimes release. So,
this I think it's costs less than 10
bucks. This is a rubs ball. You can buy
it on Amazon or anywhere else. That's a
very easy one that's just pocket-sized.
We can go back and forth. What you got?
>> Okay. So, this one is awesome, dude. You
have my doc that I sent you right with
the links to everything.
>> Yeah, I do. I don't know if you have up
in front of you. So, if you click on the
second one down, these bonsai nanolocks.
So, I've been talking about nanoblocks
for a while.
>> Hear me out, dude. This is a fun
stocking stuffer. People are going to
love this So, it's $38. It's these
little baby bonsai trees. Nanoblocks are
like Legos, but they're like onetenth of
the size. So, you need tweezers to
assemble them. It is oddly satisfying to
build these little tiny like bonsai
trees. You get all six of them for $38.
And if you use the code Tim, no, there's
no code, but if [laughter] you they're
amazing. They're so fun. Anyway,
Nanoblocks are awesome. This is a little
fun little pack. Great stocking stuffer.
They're super tiny and they're they're
cute and they make Look at the There's
nanoblocks up there on my up there
behind me. See that beautiful tree?
>> There it is. You recommended a book to
me. Do you want to mention it? It's last
in your list. I bought the audio book
and I listen and I listened to it on my
flights recently. I thought the narrator
was really, really good. Also, it it's
called Stop Fixing Yourself. Wake up.
All is well. It's by Anthony Dlo, the
Jesuit priest and therapist that we
talked about earlier. We had both
somehow discovered this this book
originally, not this book, but the other
one we were talking about,
>> awareness.
>> Awareness. And it was really cool to
hear that you were into it because I was
one of my favorite books that we we did
not compare notes and we read this
independently. I don't know how the hell
that happened, but we both loved it. And
this is another one where I was just
like, damn, this is so good because
there's so many core truths here that
apply to my practice on the meditation
side. And I just loved it. But it it
does require a little bit of
understanding. It's not like someone
from off the street can totally read
this and be like, "Oh, that makes a ton
of sense to me." I don't know if you
felt that way.
>> I feel like, well, there are two things
I would say just having read a lot of
Anthony Dlo that I think awareness
subtitle conversations with the masters.
It used to be the perils and promise of
reality, but they changed the subtitle.
I preferred the old one, but Awareness
by Anthony Dlo. His last name is two
words, D E space M L O is 184 pages and
I've gifted it to at least 50 people. I
mean, I have an entire bookshelf full of
this book in my guest bedroom in my
house just to give friends.
>> Same dude. That's so funny.
>> And I would recommend people read
awareness first. I don't think you need
anything special in terms of background
for that.
>> Well, you do need one thing. You need to
know that it is a a lecture. So it it
reads like a lecture. It is it doesn't
read like a book,
>> which I like. Which I like. And he's
very nononsense.
>> I gave it to a couple friends and they
started reading it. They're like, "Wait,
is this a talk that he gave?" And I'm
like, "Oh, yeah, yeah, I should have
told you that. It's an actual talk."
>> It's a collection of
polished lectures that he gave. So
awareness would be the first. And then
in the case of the stop fixing yourself,
I really enjoyed it. There's a lot of
overlap with awareness. So there are
certain points that get reiterated. The
audiobook rendition of Stop Fixing
Yourself is very very good. I disagree
with some of the conclusions which are
effectively
along the lines I I shouldn't say this
may might sound unfair but in the
conclusion he talks about how ultimate
freedom is not depending on anyone for
anything and you could be perfectly
happy in isolation by yourself and I was
like evolutionarily I think that's
actually a pretty hard sell but what I
would suggest is if you listen to or
read these books as with any book expect
that you're going to disagree with and
maybe even discard 10 20% of it, but
don't throw the baby out with the
bathwater. These are really, really
helpful books. Well said. Let me grab
another one here. I'll recommend two
others in case people are interested in
books. So, fiction, tomorrow and
tomorrow and tomorrow. I think it might
just be tomorrow. Tomorrow and tomorrow.
Anyway, it's tomorrow three times by
Gabriel Zean. Zev Vin. It's a fiction
book and it was on the New York Times
list of the 100 best books of the 21st
century. It's a new one and it is all
about entrepreneurship and game design
and love unrequited. And when I
recommended this book initially in Five
Bullet Friday, my newsletter, one of my
attorneys who helped craft the agreement
for Coyote, another stocking stuffer,
the card game that I made with Exploding
Kittens. I noticed it's on Black Friday
sale, by the way. It's like 38% off on
Amazon right now or something like that.
>> Yeah, it's $7.99 right now. It's doing
super well. The reviews are great. It's
like 4.7 or 4.8 stars. So, I'm so proud
of you, dude. This is so cool to see you
having success here. Thanks, man. I
thought you were going to do the five
hour body and I was like, "Ah, you
probably shouldn't go there and it's
nice to see you doing this."
>> Yeah. So, it's [clears throat] been
super fun. But my my attorney who helped
with the negotiations on deal
structuring for Coyote specializes in
video games and he's been involved with
some epic deals and amazing
mergers and acquisitions and all this
crazy stuff. And he texted me after I
put that in the newsletter and he said,
"That book is so good. It was eerie
because it is so accurate down to the
finest detail that it felt like somebody
was looking over my shoulder when I was
doing these deals. Like that is how well
researched this book is. You would love
it. I really think you would enjoy it.
My old assistant Sarah, who is amazing,
she gifted it to me and it burned in the
fire when my house burned down. Oh, you
got to read it.
>> I need to get it cuz she was like, "You
got to listen to this book."
>> Oh, it's so good. Yeah, it's great. And
then the last one I'll recommend just
because I gave we gave some non-fiction
then just gave fiction. I'll give poetry
which people that might not expect but
it's a little tiny compilation. This
also has an entire shelf in my guest
room. It's called Gold. It's by Roomie
and then the translator Hala Liza Gapori
last name G- A F O R I 112 pages and it
is just an incredible collection of
poetry of course originally by the great
Persian mystic room but with incredible
new translations by Hal Liza Gofori who
is an American poet of Persian descent.
So she's a native speaker and also she
herself a poet and musician. So, if you
read one or two of these poems before
you go to bed at night, it just makes
everything better. So, I would also just
recommend So, I can keep going with gift
recommendations, but I suspect you have
more. Would you like to mention any
more? I've got some great ones, dude.
All right. While we do two at a time,
why don't you do two and then I'll do
another two. Okay. I'm going to make you
a multi-billionaire from how many people
buy this next one. I'm going to say with
your ail Amazon affiliate link. This
right here, my friend, is the best
purchase I've ever made in my life.
>> Whoa, that's a strong statement.
>> Well, I mean, okay, maybe not, but it's
high up there.
>> Yeah. Okay. Have you ever been in one of
those situations where you need a small
little screwdriver or a screw head and
you're like, you can't find the right
one that fits?
>> Yeah.
>> So, this is 25 different micro like
everything from hex nuts to screwdrivers
to flatheads and it's a magnetic little
insert into the actual wand. Now you
think, okay, who cares? But it's $7.79
and it acts like a $25 screwdriver. It
is the best stocking stuffer in the
world. You know, once a year or twice a
year, you'll get something where it
takes like two doubleas's or whatever.
And it's like, oh, there's a little tiny
screwdriver thing you got to undo. And
I'm like, where am I going to find
something that fits that? This is that
thing. And then when you want to like
tweak your glasses or whatever, you need
those micro screwdrivers. Dude, $7. This
thing rocks. It's amazing. How did you
find this thing? It had good reviews on
Amazon. I bought it and when I got it, I
was like, they should be charging three
times as much for this thing. The torque
doesn't actually ruin the bit heads,
which is great cuz often times with the
cheaper ones, like the bit heads get
ruined. You have to have it in every
junk drawer in your house. You know, one
of those things.
>> But I love these things cuz you often
asked me back in the day when you were
doing Five Bullet Friday where you
wanted me to like contribute stuff. You
would say, "Hey, what's the best thing
under $50 or whatever that you love?"
You know, and this is it. And this is
one of those things that's under $10
that is absolutely worth every penny.
So,
>> love it. All right. So, under $10. I
don't know if it's $10, might be a
little bit more. But in addition to the
rubs ball, I'll just give a couple of
quickfire. There's something called the
alpha ball by Tuneup Fitness. It was
actually introduced to me by Inseimma
Inyang or Eyang I think is how he
pronounces it. But you sent me his
video. So, you are responsible for me
ultimately connecting with him. But this
alpha ball for rolling out your hips,
for traveling with it. It's about the
size of a soft ball, but it's just the
perfect density and texture. You can get
everywhere you need to get, which you
cannot do with a foam roller, nor is it
easy to travel with a foam roller. And I
just love this thing. I use it pretty
much every day. I didn't see it on
video. Did you hold it up? No, I have it
downstairs in my suitcase, actually.
Okay, let me look it up. What's it
called again? Alpha Ball by Tuneup
Fitness. You can find it on Amazon and
it's $19.99.
More than worth every penny.
>> And I can send you a link to it, of
course.
>> Sweet.
>> Then other things I'll throw in there.
This is my version of your little TED
talk that you just gave on on the $7
screwdrivers where people are like, "You
got to be kidding me." This is my
version of that. Which is the I don't
know how to pronounce this. Maestry. M A
E S T R I. Masonry House rechargeable
milk frother. Wow.
>> Yeah, I know. Mine was better than that,
but I
>> Well, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. So, I
have owned so many of these frothers for
coffee, for tea, for whatever, right?
Protein shakes or whatever. These little
hand froththers.
>> Yeah. Yeah. They all break. They all
suck, dude. They all break. Or the
batteries die and then you can't
recharge it. Or it's like an outboard
motor and you're like, "Oh, let me just
do this for my tea and relax." and it
like shoots liquid all over the place.
>> Right. There are so many issues. This
thing is it's like the Lamborghini of
milk frothers. Oh, I love that. Yeah. It
costs how much? 30 bucks. It's not that
crazy. Well, it's USBC, too. Charging.
That's amazing. It's USBC and you
basically turn the very top of it to
adjust in any increment you want the
intensity of the agitation. I have to
tell you, I asked somebody on my team to
just due diligence and get me a frother
that would solve all these problems that
I mentioned and he knows how to do a lot
of research and this was his conclusion
and I got it and I was like, where has
this been all my life? Oh my god, has
almost 3,000 reviews or 2600 reviews,
4.5 stars. This thing is just amazing. I
use it every day.
>> So, that's one. And you know, when I put
this in Five Below Friday, what I wrote
was, "It reminds me of sage wisdom from
Kevin Kelly, who is the founding editor
of Wired magazine."
>> Oh, I love Kevin Kelly.
>> Amazing guy.
>> Yeah. We did a walk with him together.
>> Exactly. So, he had at that time, I
think it was a draft of a book that he
put together, this tiny book called
Excellent Advice for Living, which are
these pathy little quotes from Kevin
that he used to put in his I think they
were his birthday letters to friends
where he'd be like, "Here are the 10
things I learned this year." And one of
his pieces of advice is take note if you
find yourself wondering where is my good
knife or where is my good pen. That
means you have bad ones. Get rid of
those.
Like I have shelves full of shitty
frothers that have been sent to me or
that I've bought and they're just
terrible. So I just got rid of all of
them and replace them with this thing.
>> That's so awesome. Other things real
quick. Microphone. You know, I got this
microphone for [snorts] travel called
the Elgato. One word, E L G A T.
>> Oh yeah, love Elgato.
>> Elgato Wave 3. It is a gorgeous piece of
design. It makes me think of Braun
design back in the day. B R A N.
>> And it actually solves somehow bounce
and echo better than even this fancy
mic, this sure mic that I'm speaking
into right now. Yeah, it is really
impressive. I don't know what they do
with the firmware, software, whoever the
hell designs these types of things, but
this has become my favorite travel mic
is the Elgato Wave 3. Also, not that
expensive. Have you seen their prompter,
by the way? They make a tiny little
prompter like if you want to like read
scripts or anything like that. I haven't
seen it. Oh, Elgato makes this beautiful
little prompter you can control with an
iPhone or an iPad. And for people that
are doing kind of like monologues and
podcasts and stuff like that, Elgato's
some great gear and it's not that
expensive. It's well priced. Yeah, this
one, the Wave 3, I'll check out the
prompter. It's got almost 10,000
reviews, 4.7 stars, 150 bucks, and
I rely on it for to the extent that I'm
professional, professional level
recording. [laughter]
And there's a lot more I could jump
into. I'll tell you what, I'll give one
that is expensive but the best of best
of breed, which is the Tank M3 push
sled. This is a sled. It's literally
sitting right outside my door about 100
ft away. I have tried so many different
sleds for resolving back pain, for
building
all posterior chain development,
strength, glute activation, you name it.
Pushing and pulling a sled just gives
you so many dividends. Knees over toes
guy also talks about this at length. But
the Tank M3 push sled.
>> Holy
>> It's bar none the best sled I've ever
used. Yeah. How much is it? You just
pull it up.
>> 1,500 on Amazon.
>> Yeah. 1,500 bucks.
>> It looks amazing though.
>> I would not trade it. You can easily
rotate it. It is It has mechanical
resistance. So, for instance, I'm
pushing it in a gravel driveway. It's
not just skids. You can use this on
turf. You can use this on carpets.
You can use it indoors without
destroying the floor. It's just an
amazing sled. So, if people are looking
for best of the best in my opinion and
versatility, that's one. And then if you
don't want more stuff or you want to
give something to friends or family who
don't need more things like physical
things, [laughter]
I am talking my book a little bit here
because I'm involved with the company.
But the way the Way app, it's so easy,
right? I mean, we're going to be doing
hopefully another retreat in person
together. Henry's the best, man. It
started out as just my handdown favorite
meditation app. It's the easiest way to
get back in the habit. I just used it
yesterday morning and this morning. I
tend to do 10-minute sessions and then
sometimes do an extra 10 minutes of like
TM or something after the fact. But I
think you can get 30 sessions for free
with no credit card required to try it
out. And then if you want to give an
annual membership, that's a h 100red
bucks and you can just download the app
for free and then tap my way and share
it with people that way with a gift
button.
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The video offers a variety of holiday gift recommendations across different categories and price points. Practical items include a pocket-sized "rubs ball" for foot massage and a versatile 25-in-1 micro screwdriver set. Unique and fun gifts suggested are bonsai Nanoblocks and the card game "Coyote." For book lovers, recommendations range from philosophical works like Anthony de Mello's "Awareness" and "Stop Fixing Yourself," to the fiction novel "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow," and Rumi's poetry collection "Gold." Higher-end or specialized gifts include the Elgato Wave 3 travel microphone, the Maestry rechargeable milk frother, and the Tank M3 push sled for fitness. Lastly, for those seeking experiential gifts, "The Way app" for meditation is highlighted.
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