Christmas Special | Hacks, Fails & New Year Plans

Join us for a special Christmas Episode as we roll around in festive cheer, reflecting upon 2018 and reviewing our best hacks & fails from the last 12 months before setting some goals for the coming year. Discover why a chestnut didn't kill Jonny, what our individual approaches to new year's resolutions are, and why Yusef decided to take his pants off halfway through this recording (for real). Extra Stuff: 6 Minute Diary - http://amzn.eu/d/0hz6JJH - Video & production by Dean Hindmarch https://www.deanhindmarch.com/ https://www.instagram.com/deanhindmarch - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/modern-wisdom/id1347973549 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XrOqvxlqQI6bmdYHuIVnr?si=iUpczE97SJqe1kNdYBipnw Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - I want to hear from you!! Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

Chris WilliamsonhostJonny WatsonguestYusef Smithguest

Dec 22, 20181h 18mWatch on YouTube ↗

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0:00 – 15:00
(jazzy music plays) A very merry…
1. CWChris Williamson
  (jazzy music plays) A very merry Christmas to you, welcome back. I'm joined by Johnny and Yusuf from Propain Fitness.
2. JWJonny Watson
  Hi, there.
3. YSYusef Smith
  Hello.
4. CWChris Williamson
  As you can see, we are-
5. JWJonny Watson
  Merry Christmas.
6. CWChris Williamson
  ... festively adorned-
7. JWJonny Watson
  Merry Crimble.
8. CWChris Williamson
  ... for that time of the year. And-
9. YSYusef Smith
  Got my flowers undone.
10. CWChris Williamson
  ... for the listeners at home-
11. JWJonny Watson
  Christmas winky. (laughs)
12. YSYusef Smith
  (laughs)
13. CWChris Williamson
  For the listeners at home, we have a special present for you as well, don't we, Jonathan?
14. JWJonny Watson
  The specialist of presents.
15. YSYusef Smith
  Oh.
16. CWChris Williamson
  If, on the count of three, you say the word lights, on one-
17. JWJonny Watson
  Very clearly.
18. CWChris Williamson
  ... two, three. Lights.
19. YSYusef Smith
  Oh.
20. CWChris Williamson
  Look at that.
21. YSYusef Smith
  So wonderful.
22. CWChris Williamson
  For the people-
23. YSYusef Smith
  Warms my heart.
24. CWChris Williamson
  ... who are not watching on YouTube, Johnny is lit up, very spangly, uh, Christmas jumper, which is, uh-
25. JWJonny Watson
  Look at it.
26. CWChris Williamson
  ... available from Next, I think discount code Jon-
27. JWJonny Watson
  Like two, three-
28. CWChris Williamson
  ... Johnny, JohnnyWatson25-
29. YSYusef Smith
  Three years ago.
30. CWChris Williamson
  ... for, uh, 25% off.
15:00 – 30:00
So you're, you're basically…
1. YSYusef Smith
  certain increments. And you can set timed reminders with Evernote so that you can look at a book that you've read a while ago and refresh yourself on it, implement it.
2. CWChris Williamson
  So you're, you're basically using the Anki periodizing system to-
3. YSYusef Smith
  Sort of, yeah.
4. CWChris Williamson
  ... take you back through ...
5. YSYusef Smith
  I know there was that long article that George sent that, that's, like, really taking Anki to this full level and-
6. CWChris Williamson
  Extreme. Mm-hmm.
7. YSYusef Smith
  ... you know, putting your whole life into it, but I think that's quite a laborious process.
8. CWChris Williamson
  Mm-hmm.
9. YSYusef Smith
  Johnny is ... and I'm always inspired by your ability to implement just so, like, grateful and, um-
10. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
11. CWChris Williamson
  Listen, yeah. Man.
12. YSYusef Smith
  (laughs)
13. CWChris Williamson
  Honestly. (laughs) Oh, darling. Yeah.
14. JWJonny Watson
  Oh, man. Like, you complete me, yeah?
15. YSYusef Smith
  (laughs) Of the ability to count-
16. CWChris Williamson
  I'm telling you, man. I'm telling you.
17. YSYusef Smith
  ... my s- um, to, to just im- you read a book, you take some lesson from it, and you implement it straightaway of just, uh, just in time learning rather than just in case learning.
18. JWJonny Watson
  Is that ... Yeah, that's ephoricism.
19. YSYusef Smith
  Essen- yeah, ..........................
20. JWJonny Watson
  But I think the ... it just nev- it's never made sense to me to make notes on a book.
21. YSYusef Smith
  Mm-hmm.
22. JWJonny Watson
  Just because, like, I think people think that once they've taken notes, it's like, "I've done that now."
23. CWChris Williamson
  Mm-hmm.
24. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah, "I've got that just in case I need it."
25. YSYusef Smith
  It's so easily done to be just file it away.
26. JWJonny Watson
  But just in case, just in case of what?
27. YSYusef Smith
  And there's so many beautiful note, like, notes that you think, "That is so valuable, and all I did was wrote it once, but put it away."
28. JWJonny Watson
  Mm-hmm. And yet you look back on the notes, and it means less to you. Like, the weight that that sentence carried when you were reading it was such an insight.
29. CWChris Williamson
  But if you can't remember it at all-
30. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs) It's better.
30:00 – 45:00
It's ruined me. …
1. CWChris Williamson
  heaped spoon of coffee this morning. Like, can't, like can't stop shaking or something."
2. YSYusef Smith
  It's ruined me.
3. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah, yeah. It ru- it wrecked me.
4. YSYusef Smith
  I think I, I was measuring my heart rate that day, and it, yeah, w- with the lovely Withings watch.
5. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah.
6. YSYusef Smith
  And yeah, just ... So basically, I'm off the coffee again. Not doing that again. I think it, for me, doesn't provide any utility. Um, it, there's too much of a ... And, and Johnny was like, "Bollocks." Like, "Coffee is great. I don't feel any of the downsides of it."
7. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
8. CWChris Williamson
  And then you got, you did a 30-day challenge, and then you got humbled, didn't you, man?
9. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah. It got so hard. So like, so I did 30 days of like just tea. Um, so I had a-
10. YSYusef Smith
  Which I found really funny, but I don't know why.
11. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah.
12. CWChris Williamson
  I don't know why you were playing. You just wanted a hot drink, didn't you?
13. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah. Well, so the, the, the deal with my girlfriend was no coffee. So that included no ... She, she was saying-
14. YSYusef Smith
  I think it's 'cause you were like, you were like, "I'm gonna get some Pu'erh tea and some Oolong, and some-"
15. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah, I went on it. To be honest, like I-I, I did enjoy the morning coffee.
16. CWChris Williamson
  The ritual?
17. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah.
18. CWChris Williamson
  The morning tea.
19. JWJonny Watson
  And, and the t- sorry, the morning tea.
20. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs)
21. JWJonny Watson
  No, no, no, I did enjoy the morning tea, and like, I bought the, I bought, like, a Bodum, uh, tea press-
22. CWChris Williamson
  Jesus Christ. (laughs)
23. JWJonny Watson
  Because I, I, I-
24. CWChris Williamson
  This is why.
25. JWJonny Watson
  Literally, like, as soon as, as soon as I agreed to the 30 day challenge, I was straight in Amazon. I was like (laughs) -
26. CWChris Williamson
  The jump has come on.
27. JWJonny Watson
  I have, Yosef has such a low tolerance to heat.
28. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs) But you're good in a sauna. You wiped the floor with me when we go to the sauna.
29. JWJonny Watson
  I'm fine in the sauna, yeah. It's weird.
30. CWChris Williamson
  I guess because it's short and intense. Uh- Why won't you come to the sauna?
45:00 – 1:00:00
Mm-hmm. …
1. CWChris Williamson
  "Why don't you mention it on your podcast?"
2. YSYusef Smith
  Mm-hmm.
3. JWJonny Watson
  Oh.
4. CWChris Williamson
  Oh, wait. You don't fucking have one because you can't speak sentences.
5. YSYusef Smith
  (laughs)
6. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs) That's a hell of a reason. That's very-
7. CWChris Williamson
  How about-
8. JWJonny Watson
  ... pervasive, isn't it?
9. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah, yeah.
10. JWJonny Watson
  But yeah, like, I, so we, what, in, in some of the stuff we do with helping PTs, like one of the big barriers to being online is doing videos.
11. CWChris Williamson
  Mm-hmm.
12. JWJonny Watson
  Speaking to camera and, um, especially a video that's live.
13. CWChris Williamson
  Think of something that you're grateful for.
14. JWJonny Watson
  Exactly. And that's what-
15. CWChris Williamson
  Should we do it?
16. JWJonny Watson
  ... that's what we teach them to do.
17. CWChris Williamson
  Should we do it?
18. JWJonny Watson
  Hold on. Three, two, one. (exhaling rapidly) Chris, what was that noise?
19. YSYusef Smith
  Think of something that you're grateful for.
20. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs) (exhaling rapidly)
21. YSYusef Smith
  Oh.
22. CWChris Williamson
  You know what you're going to be absolutely aroused by?
23. JWJonny Watson
  Because you feel mint after that, don't you?
24. YSYusef Smith
  Oh, wow.
25. CWChris Williamson
  The waveform on GarageBand after that. Just a, there is no way I'm going to be able to leave that in the audio version, is there? It's just gonna sound like us humping each other for like two minutes.
26. JWJonny Watson
  Maybe that's what we were doing. If you're on the audio version, maybe that was.
27. YSYusef Smith
  It'll make, it creates sense of intrigue to go over to YouTube.
28. JWJonny Watson
  You need to go over to YouTube and press the subscribe button.
29. YSYusef Smith
  And watch the, watch the huffing.
30. CWChris Williamson
  You do.
1:00:00 – 1:08:56
When I was, like,…
1. CWChris Williamson
  some alternate Chris-
2. JWJonny Watson
  When I was, like, younger, a younger school.
3. CWChris Williamson
  ... Christmas universe or something?
4. YSYusef Smith
  You know when we were put into the YouTube holding bay? We've been sent out into the wrong dimension.
5. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
6. CWChris Williamson
  This is the wrong, this is the wrong Johnny, isn't it?
7. YSYusef Smith
  Yeah. That's why the light didn't work and-
8. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah, and my jumper failed.
9. CWChris Williamson
  I thought, I thought we were here to do a Christmas podcast, and it turns out we're in some fucking alternate universe ...
10. JWJonny Watson
  I can't believe it's fucking working.
11. CWChris Williamson
  ... where only one light on your Christmas jumper works.
12. JWJonny Watson
  So I was in a ... One of my teachers had a, um, like a singing career. He was a guitarist, and he used the, a part, portion of the choir, that I was also in, to, uh, be his backing singing group. So I'm on a CD singing.
13. YSYusef Smith
  That's great. Somewhere. Somewhere like Spotify.
14. CWChris Williamson
  Shit, a fucking bed.
15. JWJonny Watson
  No.
16. CWChris Williamson
  No. Ugh. Fuck.
17. JWJonny Watson
  Unfortunate.
18. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs) Um.
19. JWJonny Watson
  Wow.
20. YSYusef Smith
  So what are we talking about? Goals.
21. CWChris Williamson
  New Year's.
22. JWJonny Watson
  New Year's.
23. YSYusef Smith
  Tumbling over the first hurdle. Playing a-
24. CWChris Williamson
  Brass band.
25. JWJonny Watson
  Brass band.
26. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah.
27. JWJonny Watson
  That was it. No, there was, there was no ... I don't think there was more.
28. YSYusef Smith
  Make, make sure you have running shoes basically. (bell dinging)
29. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah. Just prepare, prepare before you're gonna start-
30. JWJonny Watson
  Oh, yeah.

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