Catch Up 104 | Modern Wisdom Podcast 158

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   It's podcast time, podcast…

   1. CWChris Williamson0:00

      It's podcast time, podcast time. Johnny and Yusuf, podcast time.

   2. YUYusef0:05

      Some of the questions we get, and we're just like, "Sorry, guys, it's also our first pandemic, so..."

   3. JOJonny0:11

      (laughs)

   4. CWChris Williamson0:12

      (laughs)

   5. YUYusef0:13

      Yeah. We're, we're immune to this too. We're just trying our best as well. I'm just, leave us alone.

   6. JOJonny0:17

      I just want to say something I saw on Instagram that I thought was fantastic, which was a very Geordie man saying like, "Here, over there, I took me bin out, right? And I got a fucking round of applause."

   7. CWChris Williamson0:28

      (laughs)

   8. JOJonny0:30

      Can you believe that?

   9. YUYusef0:30

      (laughs) My upstairs neighbor has taken up the drums and is having a lot more sex.

   10. CWChris Williamson0:37

       (laughs)

   11. YUYusef0:38

       But like, and it's directly above my bedroom, and it's at all times of the day. So I think there's a dog pooing outside. No, there's not. It's fine. It's fine.

   12. CWChris Williamson0:47

       (laughs)

   13. YUYusef0:48

       So that's tough, like, it's, it's going to be ... it hits so hard. But that's the choice that I've made by living here in front of a window where I can spot people pooing outside my house. So-

   14. CWChris Williamson1:03

       Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. It's podcast time, podcast time. Johnny and Yusuf, podcast time. Welcome back, gentlemen. Very good to see you.

   15. YUYusef1:15

       Good morning.

   16. CWChris Williamson1:16

       How are you?

   17. YUYusef1:16

       Good morning.

   18. JOJonny1:17

       Does, does Skype, can, can everybody see everybody-

   19. CWChris Williamson1:20

       Yeah.

   20. JOJonny1:20

       ... at once?

   21. CWChris Williamson1:20

       Yeah, man.

   22. JOJonny1:21

       So if when you're speaking, if I go...

   23. YUYusef1:24

       (laughs)

   24. CWChris Williamson1:24

       Yeah. I can see, I can see you making embarrassing reactions-

   25. JOJonny1:28

       Right.

   26. CWChris Williamson1:28

       ... to what I say, yeah.

   27. JOJonny1:29

       Okay.

   28. YUYusef1:29

       So for anyone that's listening, like the, the reason Johnny's asked that is 'cause the previous episode, we were using a different bit of software where if someone was talking, the other person could be like, and it was fine 'cause you couldn't see them.

   29. CWChris Williamson1:40

       Yeah.

   30. YUYusef1:41

       Whereas now, we're all on view all at once.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   (laughs) …

   1. CWChris Williamson15:02

      and it includes all of the people at the moment, like me. So I had my doormats down on my decking the other day to protect them from the dumbbells that I was putting down.

   2. YUYusef15:12

      (laughs)

   3. CWChris Williamson15:12

      And, um, Alfie Armstrong and Sonny Webster, I know at the moment are both using wheelie bins as squat racks.

   4. YUYusef15:19

      Yeah.

   5. CWChris Williamson15:19

      So they're squat racking-

   6. YUYusef15:20

      Me too.

   7. CWChris Williamson15:20

      ... in and out of ... So Sonny's got lifting blocks so that he can do like jerks from blocks-

   8. YUYusef15:26

      Mm-hmm.

   9. CWChris Williamson15:26

      ... but it's just, it's just two wheelie bins. Apparently the wheelie bins in, uh-

   10. YUYusef15:28

       I wouldn't trust a wheelie bin being that strong.

   11. CWChris Williamson15:31

       Alfie's got 100 kilos on two wheelie bins, and they look pretty, they look pretty legit.

   12. YUYusef15:39

       Just on the lid?

   13. CWChris Williamson15:40

       On the lid, yeah, yeah, yeah.

   14. JOJonny15:42

       It's distributed though, isn't it?

   15. YUYusef15:43

       50 kilos on each one. That's all right. It's per person stand.

   16. CWChris Williamson15:46

       Ah. This would be a good way to do it. If you were able to shave the handle off. Get, like snap the handle off it, turn it upside down so that you've got the base. I bet the base is strong as fuck. You got that, that-

   17. YUYusef15:57

       Mm-hmm.

   18. CWChris Williamson15:58

       Anyway, Pikey Lifting Club. If you've got any, uh ... If you are doing some pikey lifting, I want to find out about it. So give me a message-

   19. JOJonny16:03

       (laughs)

   20. CWChris Williamson16:04

       ... and, and let me know what you've been doing.

   21. YUYusef16:05

       Mm-hmm.

   22. CWChris Williamson16:05

       So, um, Sef, like you are ... As frontline, you're the vanguard against this current situation. Tell us, tell us what it's like, man.

   23. YUYusef16:14

       Literally the, the frontline. It's g- ... It's quite nice to see the, um, like the, the applause the other day out in the, out in the streets. Like that, that was quite sweet, quite heartwarming.

   24. CWChris Williamson16:26

       I was gonna say-

   25. YUYusef16:26

       I only realized that-

   26. CWChris Williamson16:26

       ... do you feel that? Do you feel ... Do, y- as a health worker, do you feel that?

   27. YUYusef16:30

       It, so it ... There's, there's two, two parts to it. So the, the applause, like that was, that was nice. It's nice to hear that the public appreciate it. I, ironically, I only realized what it was about in retrospect because I was between night shifts and I was just like, I w-

   28. CWChris Williamson16:45

       Annoyed at being woken up-

   29. YUYusef16:46

       Yeah. (laughs)

   30. CWChris Williamson16:46

       ... by all these fuckers clapping outside. (laughs)
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   That, that little bit-…

   1. JOJonny30:00

   2. YUYusef30:00

      That, that little bit-

   3. CWChris Williamson30:00

      No big deal.

   4. JOJonny30:01

      Just the seven steps. And it's just free as well, so.

   5. CWChris Williamson30:04

      Go and, go and sign up, man. Honestly, like-

   6. JOJonny30:06

      It is good. We've had some really good feedback from Modern Wisdom listeners about it, so.

   7. CWChris Williamson30:09

      Amazing, man. I, um, I got a bunch of messages about the how to become an online coach thing again. If you haven't heard that, that's f- unbelievable. In fact, just go and listen to that.

   8. JOJonny30:17

      Yeah, there's bits that works for that.

   9. CWChris Williamson30:17

      Go and listen to that, and if you don't like the sound of being an online coach, don't do it. But, um-

   10. YUYusef30:21

       It is brilliant. Everyone came out watching that like this.

   11. CWChris Williamson30:25

       Yousa have to put a banana up to his face.

   12. YUYusef30:27

       Big smile on the face.

   13. JOJonny30:28

       Needs a tattoo, doesn't he?

   14. CWChris Williamson30:29

       Big smile.

   15. JOJonny30:29

       There is, there is this weird ... I got asked yesterday by, uh-... I think someone who found us through Modern Wisdom, actually. But he was saying, um, "Surely it's never going to work because everyone's trying to be an online coach and, like, like, everyone's using a live video, everyone's doing a story."

   16. CWChris Williamson30:47

       Just, just, just so you know. S- s- just-

   17. JOJonny30:50

       (laughs)

   18. CWChris Williamson30:50

       Uh, all right, man. I'm, I'm not being funny, right?

   19. JOJonny30:53

       (laughs)

   20. CWChris Williamson30:53

       I'm not, I'm, I'm not being... Um, honestly, I'm not being funny. But, uh, how, how, how the fuck's this all gonna work? Oh my God. Sorry.

   21. YUYusef31:02

       He knows. He knows.

   22. CWChris Williamson31:02

       I need to, I need to interject here. Have you seen... Have you looked at the complete torpedoing of his life that Billy Joe Saunders, the boxer, has managed to do in the last seven days?

   23. JOJonny31:14

       (laughs) No.

   24. CWChris Williamson31:15

       Right, so Yusuf, you might not know who Billy Joe Saunders is. British boxer-

   25. JOJonny31:18

       I, I don't know.

   26. CWChris Williamson31:19

       Okay, British boxer.

   27. JOJonny31:21

       Billy?

   28. CWChris Williamson31:21

       Billy Joe Saunders, boxer. Um, so he was lined up to have a huge fight, absolutely massive fight, which has been rearranged. In the time over the last couple of days, he rang an airport that his friend was flying out of to tell them that his friend had coronavirus while he was on the plane. So his friend then got pulled off and detained with his other buddy, and Billy-

   29. YUYusef31:49

       What, just to grass up his mate?

   30. CWChris Williamson31:50

       Just 'cause he thought he'd be funny, 'cause he's bored.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   You got to do…

   1. YUYusef45:00

      trend lines, logar- logarithmic scales of things, new cases, recoveries, and deaths. But I still, it, that's not really-

   2. CWChris Williamson45:08

      You got to do work there, right, as well? It's, uh, you know, you're driving to work or doing whatever. Ben Shapiro's podcast, man, every, every morning now part of my morning routine is listening to that while I cook. Um, so yeah, you get an episode... In the UK you'll be listening on a Tuesday up until a, on a Saturday, and then he gets Sunday, Monday off because he, he takes the weekend off. But he's brilliant. Like he's absolutely amazing. The only thing I would say is if you are listening, every time that he goes, "We'll come back to that in just one second," immediately say, "Hey Siri, skip forward 90 seconds." Because that's the beginning of the new-

   3. YUYusef45:41

      Does that work with Siri?

   4. CWChris Williamson45:43

      Yeah.

   5. YUYusef45:44

      Wow.

   6. CWChris Williamson45:45

      Yeah. That's why you need AirPods, man.

   7. YUYusef45:46

      That's cool.

   8. JOJonny45:47

      (laughs)

   9. CWChris Williamson45:50

      (laughs) Um...

   10. YUYusef45:51

       (laughs)

   11. CWChris Williamson45:51

       (laughs) Um, look at your face. (laughs)

   12. YUYusef45:54

       Here we go.

   13. CWChris Williamson45:55

       Um, what other, what other stuff have I been consuming that's been cool? I mean, I've really, really been super, super impressed by Ben Shapiro's podcast. Tiger King was awesome. The Vietnam War documentary by Ken Burns, fucking sick. Um, the UK and US Office have both just been put on, I think, Netflix or maybe there've been extra episodes added so my housemates have been watching that. Um...

   14. JOJonny46:17

       I really like the US Office.

   15. CWChris Williamson46:18

       It's better than the-

   16. JOJonny46:19

       I just, I think-

   17. CWChris Williamson46:19

       ... better than the UK one I think in some, in some respects.

   18. JOJonny46:21

       Yeah. I j- yeah. It's, um, is it Steve Carell?

   19. CWChris Williamson46:24

       Yeah.

   20. YUYusef46:24

       Oh!

   21. JOJonny46:24

       Is that the character, like I just, he can do no wrong. (laughs) Like I just really enjoy how he like muddles his way through and ends up doing quite well.

   22. CWChris Williamson46:33

       Mm-hmm.

   23. JOJonny46:33

       Really funny. Good. Um, I watched something last night called Official Secrets, a film with Becca.

   24. CWChris Williamson46:39

       All right.

   25. JOJonny46:40

       It's about like, um, the theory that, uh, evidence was doctored to k- to start the Iraq War.

   26. CWChris Williamson46:48

       Shit.

   27. JOJonny46:49

       Good.

   28. YUYusef46:49

       cure at night.

   29. CWChris Williamson46:50

       Is it... Oh, it's dramatized.

   30. JOJonny46:52

       Yeah, it's a drama, yeah.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:12:55

   Mm. …

   1. JOJonny1:00:00

      got some really, like, strong aspects to his character that I think he's put himself through a lot of... He's been through a lot of stuff-

   2. CWChris Williamson1:00:07

      Mm.

   3. JOJonny1:00:07

      ... and has still just got a great outlook on it all.

   4. CWChris Williamson1:00:09

      That's cool.

   5. JOJonny1:00:10

      Um-

   6. CWChris Williamson1:00:10

      What was the thing that you-

   7. JOJonny1:00:12

      And he can be an int- like an introvert.

   8. CWChris Williamson1:00:12

      ... that you were, that you were less grateful for, Seth?

   9. YUYusef1:00:15

      My upstairs neighbor has taken up the drums.

   10. CWChris Williamson1:00:19

       (laughs)

   11. YUYusef1:00:19

       Like, she doesn't miss the times taking up the drums, and is having a lot more sex.

   12. CWChris Williamson1:00:25

       (laughs)

   13. YUYusef1:00:27

       But, like, the, the... So, and it's directly above my bedroom, and it's at all times of the day because no one has any schedule anymore. And the headboard i- is... So the reason I can differentiate between drums and sex is that the sex ha- doesn't have a defined tempo and accelerates and then stops suddenly, and it's against the wall. So, like, as in the, like, the headboard banging against the wall. Like, on one hand, I'm like, I'm quite impressed with how much of a, like, stallion the boyfriend is because it goes on for-... ages, um, and just multiple, multiple times a day at random times. Um, but it's very disruptive, especially when you're trying to record something. And it's a very difficult problem to have to be like, "Excuse me, I'm trying to record. Can you just keep down the echo for a minute?"

   14. CWChris Williamson1:01:14

       Have you, uh, excuse me, have you, have you signed up to our free webinar? Because if you have, you'll hear yourself in the background.

   15. YUYusef1:01:20

       (laughs)

   16. CWChris Williamson1:01:20

       Um, so can I, I wanna, I wanna just delve, let's do a deep dive on this. Can we talk about cadence, please? I mean, are we like, uh, is he a...

   17. YUYusef1:01:31

       (clapping) A bit faster.

   18. JOJonny1:01:34

       Okay.

   19. YUYusef1:01:35

       (clapping)

   20. JOJonny1:01:35

       That's maintained. I can be slower than that.

   21. YUYusef1:01:37

       But it's, it's, it's like intermittent rhythmics.

   22. CWChris Williamson1:01:40

       It varies then.

   23. YUYusef1:01:42

       Whereas the drums you can hit like different kits of the drums, and it's, you know...

   24. CWChris Williamson1:01:47

       Yeah.

   25. YUYusef1:01:48

       Kit. (laughs)

   26. CWChris Williamson1:01:48

       Yeah. Okay, what's the-

   27. YUYusef1:01:48

       Like there's a bass, snare and cymbals.

   28. CWChris Williamson1:01:49

       What's the average, what's the average duration?

   29. YUYusef1:01:53

       30 to 40 minutes.

   30. CWChris Williamson1:01:54

       Wow.

Episode duration: 1:16:03