Episode 100 Special Edition Q&A

Name: Episode 100 Special Edition Q&A
Uploaded: 2019-09-05T00:00:00Z
Duration: 1 h 40 min 20 s

Jonny & Yusef join me for a special edition Q&A to celebrate 100 episodes of Modern Wisdom. Expect to learn... everything that the internet wanted to know. Plus enjoy an exclusive clip from the Pilot Episode of Modern Wisdom back in 2017. Thank you to everyone who tunes in, your continued support is hugely appreciated. Big love x Extra Stuff: Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

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0:00 – 0:58
Episode 100 kickoff, rapid-fire life hacks & banter
1. CWChris Williamson
  It's episode 100. (cheering)
2. NANarrator
  (clapping)
3. CWChris Williamson
  If you were to give your student self a life hack, what would it be? Evernote, and then you wouldn't have lost your journal of, like, a decade.
4. YSYusef Smith
  Oh, yeah. So I- I wrote a journal, a daily journal for a decade. And then one day my Microsoft Word file corrupted.
5. CWChris Williamson
  And then what'd you do?
6. YSYusef Smith
  I was like, "Oh, well."
7. NANarrator
  (laughs) (clapping)
8. YSYusef Smith
  That's the end of my journaling then.
9. CWChris Williamson
  Almost all of the problems in my life can be fixed by a 10-minute walk, a good night's sleep, a glass of water, or a wank.
10. YSYusef Smith
  (laughs)
11. NANarrator
  (laughs)
12. CWChris Williamson
  Let's-
13. JWJonny Watson
  Seriously, this is exactly what I was gonna say.
14. CWChris Williamson
  Really?
15. JWJonny Watson
  Brethren-
16. CWChris Williamson
  Unbelievable.
17. YSYusef Smith
  So ... (laughs)
18. JWJonny Watson
  Fuck, I've got nothing.
19. YSYusef Smith
  Sorry, man.
20. CWChris Williamson
  Who is the coolest person who listens to Modern Wisdom? My mum. My mum listens to-
21. YSYusef Smith
  Aw.
22. CWChris Williamson
  ... Modern Wisdom, I suppose.
23. YSYusef Smith
  Okay, so mansplaining, man-spreading.
24. CWChris Williamson
  Everything with man in it, Manchester.
25. YSYusef Smith
  Man- (laughs)
26. JWJonny Watson
  What personality trait has gotten you in the most trouble?
27. CWChris Williamson
  Trouble?
28. JWJonny Watson
  Mm-hmm.
29. NANarrator
  (wind blowing)
0:58 – 1:43
100-episode milestone: origin stories and early podcast memories
1. CWChris Williamson
  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. It's episode 100. (cheering)
2. NANarrator
  (clapping)
3. CWChris Williamson
  Uh, we've done 100 episodes of Modern Wisdom.
4. YSYusef Smith
  Ee.
5. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
6. YSYusef Smith
  Really well.
7. CWChris Williamson
  Shit the bed.
8. YSYusef Smith
  Ee.
9. CWChris Williamson
  Honestly, man.
10. JWJonny Watson
  It doesn't feel like it.
11. CWChris Williamson
  I know.
12. YSYusef Smith
  It's 'cause you've just suddenly gone ... (yawning)
13. CWChris Williamson
  Twice a week, yeah. Yeah. I know. But anyway, thank you very much to everyone who's tuned in over the last 100 episodes. Uh ...
14. JWJonny Watson
  Do you remember the day we did the first podcast with you, and we had the preamble of making the coffee and the coffee was too strong?
15. YSYusef Smith
  Oh, that was far too strong.
16. CWChris Williamson
  That was from the propane, right?
17. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah.
18. CWChris Williamson
  Yes.
19. JWJonny Watson
  So that was our interview with you, and then podcasting just-
20. CWChris Williamson
  Look at, look at-
21. JWJonny Watson
  ... mushroomed.
22. YSYusef Smith
  Chris fit. Chris fit.
23. CWChris Williamson
  Chris fit it was.
24. YSYusef Smith
  Yeah.
25. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah, exactly. 16 million listen minutes later and we're here.
26. JWJonny Watson
  Here we are.
1:43 – 4:15
Lost pilot episode revival: Yusuf’s ‘lemon ball’ medical saga begins
1. CWChris Williamson
  Uh, so we've got a couple of special treats for you today. We're gonna do a Q&A. We asked for questions from people on the internet. Uh, Instagram have come up with some pretty good ones. Also, before I started this podcast as the name that it was, um, we did-
2. YSYusef Smith
  Here comes the hot potato.
3. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
4. CWChris Williamson
  ... we did a pilot episode, and originally it was called Minds- Mind and Matter. Bit of a shite name, I know. Uh, Mind and Matter, and we did a pilot episode on purpose and meaning. As a part of that, Yusuf told us a story about when his testicle grew to the size of a lemon because he got a hydrocele.
5. YSYusef Smith
  (laughs)
6. CWChris Williamson
  And then he tried to pop it in the shower, and then he had a number of other complications. And I've been asked a lot, because I keep referencing it, I've been asked to put this story in. So, you're gonna get to hear it.
7. JWJonny Watson
  We've got the footage.
8. CWChris Williamson
  Right now.
9. YSYusef Smith
  Fine.
10. CWChris Williamson
  I want the full thing.
11. YSYusef Smith
  I'm gonna give you the full montage.
12. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
13. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs)
14. YSYusef Smith
  This ... This is a-
15. CWChris Williamson
  Are you sitting comfortably?
16. YSYusef Smith
  This is a podcast about purpose, and we're gonna spend the first five minutes-
17. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
18. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs)
19. YSYusef Smith
  ... talking about my ball on request. (laughs)
20. CWChris Williamson
  Balls on demand.
21. YSYusef Smith
  Balls on demand, BOD. Right.
22. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
23. YSYusef Smith
  So ...
24. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs)
25. YSYusef Smith
  One day, I was coming out the shower. My flatmate saw my ball and said, "Yusuf, that's really big. You need to do something about it." I said, "No, it's fine. It's always been like that."
26. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs)
27. YSYusef Smith
  (laughs) Chris is losing water out of his mouth.
28. JWJonny Watson
  What was the first, what was the first, like, the first time that you, you were, like, drying yourself off (laughs) and you looked in the mirror and you were like, "Hmm"?
29. YSYusef Smith
  It's very gradual. And because the male denial of health issues runs so deep-
30. JWJonny Watson
  Mm-hmm.
4:15 – 6:00
Diagnosis & exams: ultrasound details and clinical comedy
1. YSYusef Smith
  So went to the GP, they have a feel and they tell you, "Oh, yes, it appears to be quite enlarged." And you're like, "Yep, yep. I know."
2. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs)
3. YSYusef Smith
  "I'll just refer you to the radiologist." Radiologist gets some gel on it, calculates the volume for 20 minutes to tell you that it's big.
4. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
5. YSYusef Smith
  And you're like, "Okay, I don't know why you needed to ultrasound that."
6. CWChris Williamson
  All right, it's not, it's not normal, that bit.
7. YSYusef Smith
  Oh, that's, that's a bit big. So-
8. JWJonny Watson
  They've got, like, sonar in the room.
9. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs)
10. YSYusef Smith
  Bloop. Bloop. Very ...
11. JWJonny Watson
  Oh, yeah. Beep. It's enlarged.
12. YSYusef Smith
  Something, if anyone's ever had a ball ultrasound, or if you, if you have one coming up, something that they do is the nurse will come in, tell you to drop your pants to your knees, leave. And then she'll come back and say, "Oh, I've got this tissue to cover your penis for decency."
13. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs)
14. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
15. YSYusef Smith
  Because of course that's the important bit.
16. CWChris Williamson
  You see what I mean? How many times have you heard this story?
17. JWJonny Watson
  Never heard that. (laughs)
18. CWChris Williamson
  Four or five? There's all, there's little gems that he leaves out. And that's what I'm like, "You have to do." Discover them. Don't half-ass it. If you're gonna do it, do it properly.
19. YSYusef Smith
  I'm quite glad that you're happy to hear this again, 'cause I feel like-
20. CWChris Williamson
  It's brilliant.
21. YSYusef Smith
  ... most people get upset at-
22. CWChris Williamson
  If you released a book that was just this story, I'd buy it.
23. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
24. YSYusef Smith
  So they cover your penis for decency, of course, 'cause you, that's the-
25. CWChris Williamson
  They ...
26. YSYusef Smith
  That's the thing that's top on your mind.
27. CWChris Williamson
  Do they, like, sausage roll it, or how does it-
28. YSYusef Smith
  No, they just drape ... So-
29. CWChris Williamson
  Okay.
30. YSYusef Smith
  So then you're sat there with just testicles exposed.
6:00 – 7:36
Urologist visit and transillumination: ‘Christmas light’ moment
1. YSYusef Smith
  Exactly. So-... ultrasounded, passed a few, passed it around a few different people, eventually to the urologist. This is the guy who's gonna operate. Big Nigerian man-
2. GUGuest
  (laughs)
3. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
4. YSYusef Smith
  ... starts examining me and then walks over to the light without explaining what he's doing.
5. JWJonny Watson
  (coughs)
6. YSYusef Smith
  Turns it off and comes back with a torch and shines-
7. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
8. YSYusef Smith
  ... a light through the ball and it lights up like a Christmas light.
9. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
10. GUGuest
  (laughs)
11. YSYusef Smith
  He looks really happy and says-
12. JWJonny Watson
  "You see this? It, it means it's not a cancer."
13. YSYusef Smith
  And you're like-
14. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
15. YSYusef Smith
  ... "Oh, great. Okay." So he's, he's really pleased about it. Later on found out that's, that's called a transillumination.
16. JWJonny Watson
  (coughs)
17. YSYusef Smith
  To check for, um, for any kind of cancer. So that, that's, uh, good news if it lights up.
18. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
19. YSYusef Smith
  By this point it was getting-
20. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
21. YSYusef Smith
  ... pretty big. Like the size of a, a, like a little steroidal lemon.
22. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
23. GUGuest
  Like a mango.
24. YSYusef Smith
  Mango. (laughs) A small mango, yeah. And it was... It gets to the point where-
25. JWJonny Watson
  (coughs)
26. YSYusef Smith
  ... everything, everything else, like, rests on it-
27. GUGuest
  (laughs)
28. YSYusef Smith
  ... when you're standing. It comes up horizontally. Um, and like you couldn't hide it in work trousers. And I did a competition in a, in a singlet.
29. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
30. YSYusef Smith
  And obviously setting up for bench, whoever filmed me chose to use the, the angle, like, straight up towards it. And I had to cover-
7:36 – 11:11
The shower decision: trying to ‘pop it’ and the surgery aftermath
1. YSYusef Smith
  Very much So at that point, been referred for surgery, watched the procedure on YouTube the night before, and started to get the fear. So I went into the shower and tried to-
2. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
3. YSYusef Smith
  ... burst it myself.
4. GUGuest
  (laughs)
5. YSYusef Smith
  And, and this is where we turn the lemon into a bean. So reshaped the lemon into more of a bean shape. Um-
6. GUGuest
  Through sheer force.
7. YSYusef Smith
  Through force, yeah.
8. JWJonny Watson
  So did you... For that to happen, was it an initial, like a short, sharp, like-
9. YSYusef Smith
  No, it was-
10. JWJonny Watson
  Or was it sustained?
11. YSYusef Smith
  It was a slow shake. (laughs)
12. JWJonny Watson
  So you slowly applied the pressure? Was it in that position?
13. YSYusef Smith
  It was... Yeah, hands clasped and, like, interlocked to, to get more purchase on it.
14. GUGuest
  It's just as well that you're not practiced in jujitsu.
15. YSYusef Smith
  Yeah. (laughs) Be really good at it.
16. GUGuest
  Yeah.
17. YSYusef Smith
  So had the surgery-
18. GUGuest
  Are you... Johnny, are you trying to-
19. JWJonny Watson
  I'm imagining-
20. GUGuest
  ... think about different ways that you'd be able to squeeze a ball?
21. JWJonny Watson
  I'm thinking how I would do it, and then thinking about the amount of pressure that-
22. GUGuest
  You've interlaced your fingers.
23. YSYusef Smith
  Well, because... I think so.
24. GUGuest
  You've interlaced your fingers. You can't do that.
25. JWJonny Watson
  I mean, you could really bear down on it.
26. GUGuest
  You can apply, apply a fair bit of pressure there.
27. YSYusef Smith
  I mean, your, yourself limited obviously, like-
28. JWJonny Watson
  'Cause it really hurts.
29. YSYusef Smith
  Yeah. Had the surgery-
30. JWJonny Watson
  Does it hurt as much as a normal ball?
11:11 – 12:37
Moral of the story: men’s health, embarrassment, and getting help
1. YSYusef Smith
  At the end of the day, the moral of the story is, if you have a problem like this, it's only gonna get worse until you seek medical help.
2. JWJonny Watson
  So seek medical help with purpose.
3. YSYusef Smith
  Seek medical help. With purpose, don't try and pop it yourself. See the GP, don't be embarrassed about it. Um, it's a typical male thing to not do that. Um, I was lucky. It was a lemon ball, but it could be a nasty ball. So... And if it is a nasty ball, that can be fatal. So feel your ball, go see the GP.
4. GUGuest
  And we're back.
5. JWJonny Watson
  Oh.
6. GUGuest
  Oh.
7. YSYusef Smith
  You know, there's, there's a really wholesome message to that story, which is that men are often afraid to go to the doctor for things out of maybe cult- sociocultural reasons. But that is proof that you should- shouldn't be ashamed.
8. JWJonny Watson
  Don't... So don't squeeze your own testicle.
9. GUGuest
  Don't try and pop it.
10. JWJonny Watson
  Just go and see-
11. YSYusef Smith
  Just go and see a professional.
12. JWJonny Watson
  ... your GP.
13. YSYusef Smith
  And they-
14. JWJonny Watson
  They'll squeeze it for you.
15. YSYusef Smith
  Yeah.
16. GUGuest
  They will squeeze it for you. Uh, so hope you enjoyed that story. It was, it was unbelievable. The rest of that episode, by the way, was total shit. But that 10 minute-
17. JWJonny Watson
  ... period was-
18. GUGuest
  I thought it was great. We, we prepared-
19. JWJonny Watson
  Golden.
20. GUGuest
  ... loads of notes. It was, it was only bad because of the audio quality and the, like tapping and-
21. JWJonny Watson
  It's 'cause you get-
22. GUGuest
  ... and the flicking.
23. JWJonny Watson
  ... you get immense FOMO when there's a piece of content that's created and it isn't propagated.
24. GUGuest
  We, we prepared hard for that though.
25. JWJonny Watson
  It's like Life Fails that was just lost in the ether.
26. GUGuest
  Ah.
27. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah.
28. JWJonny Watson
  Like all that, all that, all the stuff you prepared for.
29. CWChris Williamson
  All those Life Fails.
30. GUGuest
  All the stories you gave.
12:37 – 16:59
Q&A begins: favorite novels and reading for pleasure vs productivity
1. CWChris Williamson
  ... so thank you, massive thank you to everyone who's tuned in, 100 episodes. Uh, we are 16 million listen minutes, several thousand subscribers, all that sort of stuff. Um, and we got some cool questions, so we're going to do some questions. Do you want to, do you want to do one of yours first?
2. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah.
3. CWChris Williamson
  Mr. Johnny?
4. JWJonny Watson
  I mean, this is very, um, like, uh, you know, my first question.
5. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs)
6. JWJonny Watson
  But, you know, just d, questions for dummies. No, I, I don't mean that. Um, do you have any favorite novels and well, first, first part of the question.
7. GUGuest
  So who's asked the question as well?
8. JWJonny Watson
  Are we doing that?
9. CWChris Williamson
  Can do, yeah.
10. JWJonny Watson
  ChrisMHunt1. I may have just taken the piss out of his question. It's a great question, Chris.
11. GUGuest
  (laughs)
12. JWJonny Watson
  Um, "Do you have-"
13. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs)
14. JWJonny Watson
  "... do you have any favorite novels?" And then also, "Do you see any value in reading for pleasure?"
15. GUGuest
  Mm.
16. CWChris Williamson
  Both-
17. JWJonny Watson
  Christoffer.
18. CWChris Williamson
  Both of these things have been discussed with, uh, Chris Sparks. Spoke to him about this the other day, productivity coach. Uh, because this is episode 100 and I'm starting to back up, that's almost definitely going to be coming after this. So either in the past or the future, listen, listen out for me talking about that.
19. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs) Well, everything's either in the past or the future.
20. CWChris Williamson
  They are, yeah.
21. JWJonny Watson
  Apart from now, now-
22. CWChris Williamson
  Which is right now.
23. JWJonny Watson
  ... now, now, and now.
24. GUGuest
  Now.
25. JWJonny Watson
  But now.
26. GUGuest
  Not that, but now.
27. JWJonny Watson
  Now. (laughs)
28. GUGuest
  (laughs)
29. CWChris Williamson
  Uh, so 1984, George Orwell. Like, really good, easy read, uh, a lot of implications that you can, if you're a bit of a self-development sort of buff, that you can take and, uh, and apply to your own life. Uh, The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho, great novel.
30. JWJonny Watson
  What's the second part? Do you see any value in reading for pleasure?
16:59 – 21:04
Life hacks that actually stuck: Alfred, phone-outside-bedroom, iteration mindset
1. CWChris Williamson
  Good guy. Right, um, Sean J, "What is a life hack you couldn't go without since introducing it?" So we need to pick one that you've heard or you've brought up on a Life Hacks and you haven't s- you haven't sort of stopped since you've, uh-
2. JWJonny Watson
  God.
3. CWChris Williamson
  ... done that one.
4. JWJonny Watson
  I know what you're going to say.
5. GUGuest
  Yeah. (laughs)
6. CWChris Williamson
  What's he going to say?
7. JWJonny Watson
  Mine are split between physical and digital now. (laughs)
8. CWChris Williamson
  No, no, what, what's he, what's he, what's he gonna, what's he gonna say? What do you think he'll say?
9. JWJonny Watson
  Alfred.
10. GUGuest
  Oh God. Yeah, you know what? That, that-
11. CWChris Williamson
  What, you're not going to say Alfred?
12. GUGuest
  Well, but that actually tops it. If I had to pick what I was going to say and Alfred, I'd have to pick Alfred.
13. CWChris Williamson
  So have I just out-life-hacked your own life hack?
14. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah.
15. CWChris Williamson
  What was your original one?
16. GUGuest
  Shut-duffer.
17. JWJonny Watson
  Oh, the bum spray.
18. GUGuest
  Bless me.
19. CWChris Williamson
  Bless you.
20. GUGuest
  But yeah, I, I try not to poo when I'm not at home now because it's, it just makes me-
21. CWChris Williamson
  Do you hold it in?
22. GUGuest
  Well, you shou- you shouldn't, but it makes the experience so much better.
23. JWJonny Watson
  What do you mean you shouldn't?
24. GUGuest
  You shouldn't hold in poo longer than you should, longer than you have to.
25. JWJonny Watson
  But no one ever holds in poo longer than they have to.
26. GUGuest
  I think they do, because otherwise you would just poo-
27. JWJonny Watson
  But it's not longer than they have to.
28. GUGuest
  W- w- longer than they would like to, but-
29. JWJonny Watson
  No.
30. GUGuest
  Ah, okay.
21:04 – 24:47
Silly would-you-rather, then strength talk: bench press numbers & lifting culture
1. JWJonny Watson
  Emmahamespt, um, who I think wanted a date with you, actually. I probably shouldn't have said that.
2. CWChris Williamson
  What's your answer, Chris? We'd love to know if you have a date. (laughs)
3. JWJonny Watson
  But, uh, it's would you rather, um, have to tell everyone around you that you need to fart or pee your pants? And then she submitted in a second question, ellipsis, "Every day."
4. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs)
5. GUGuest
  So-
6. JWJonny Watson
  So would you rather have to tell everyone around you that you need to fart.
7. CWChris Williamson
  Or just-
8. JWJonny Watson
  So every time you fart, you're like, "I've got to fart." Or every time you pee-
9. GUGuest
  Just pee your pants.
10. JWJonny Watson
  ... you pee your pants?
11. CWChris Williamson
  It's the fart, gotta be the fart one. Like, or else you're just pissing your pants all the time.
12. GUGuest
  Mm.
13. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah.
14. CWChris Williamson
  It's t- it's that, there's no, it's ... No asym- there's a big asymmetry.
15. GUGuest
  It's cut and dry though, isn't it? Yeah.
16. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah.
17. JWJonny Watson
  I suppose it depends on if you need to fart, is like, every time you even get the hint of a feeling, you have to fart now.
18. CWChris Williamson
  I don't have the hint of a fart much. Like, mine are-
19. GUGuest
  They just fall out. (laughs)
20. CWChris Williamson
  I don't get false alarms. I don't have false alarms at all.
21. JWJonny Watson
  You must have situations in your life where you think, "I shouldn't fart here."
22. CWChris Williamson
  Well, the only time that I think I shouldn't fart-
23. JWJonny Watson
  You must-
24. CWChris Williamson
  ... is when I think I might shart.
25. JWJonny Watson
  But you must be in a social setting-
26. GUGuest
  It's the only time-
27. JWJonny Watson
  ... where you're like, "I shouldn't fart here."
28. GUGuest
  ... with your knee pooped, in a closed space.
29. JWJonny Watson
  You've heard me fart. I know. Lots.
30. GUGuest
  Uh, you know what? We've been along car journeys with you, and you've been very considerate.
24:47 – 29:47
What everyone should experience: deep conversations & pushing physical limits
1. CWChris Williamson
  From Jetomoon, "What's something you think every person should experience in their lifetime?"
2. JWJonny Watson
  (groans) Uh ...
3. CWChris Williamson
  Hot potato. Be on a podcast.
4. JWJonny Watson
  Be on a podcast.
5. CWChris Williamson
  I think that-
6. JWJonny Watson
  That's a really good answer.
7. CWChris Williamson
  I think that at some point in your life, especially now, a lot of distraction, a lot of time spent double screening, triple screening, watching TV, being distracted, not having deep conversations.
8. JWJonny Watson
  Mm-hmm.
9. CWChris Williamson
  It is, like, doing these podcasts and having these discussions with whoever it is now, even people I've got not that much ... Like, Brian Carroll is a 300-and-something-pound powerlifter from Florida. Um, and the only thing I have in common is we've both been seen by the same back specialist.
10. JWJonny Watson
  Mm-hmm.
11. CWChris Williamson
  And an hour-and-a-half talking to him just flew by and I loved it, and he ... I'm going to go see him, and I'm going to go and chill with him, and you're like, the opportunity-
12. JWJonny Watson
  I can't believe you're going to go and chill with Brian Carroll. It's ridiculous.
13. CWChris Williamson
  I know. I've got Dave Tate on in a couple of weeks.
14. JWJonny Watson
  He will be an interesting guy.
15. CWChris Williamson
  I've got ... I'll wait for you to get questions for him.
16. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah.
17. CWChris Williamson
  Um, Andrew Doyle. Sat down with Andrew Doyle this Sunday. Went out for him in Edinburgh last night after his show at the Fringe, had-had drinks with him. Like-
18. JWJonny Watson
  Is he on the podcast?
19. CWChris Williamson
  He's on the podcast indeed, yeah. Um, so-
20. JWJonny Watson
  So be on a podcast.
21. CWChris Williamson
  Be on a podcast. Just have the opportunity or, if not, sit down with someone for one hour, both phones outside of the room, and have a discussion about something that you think will interest you. So like, fake a podcast. I just think having deep conversations with people, you both leave... everyone that's a part of it leaves the room better than when you went in. So, that's mine.
22. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah, 'cause like, uh, you can, you can do a podcast about whatever you're interested in and just put it on iTunes. Like there's ... the cost's minimal, isn't it? As, as we well know.
23. GUGuest
  It's free, isn't it? Yeah. (laughs)
24. CWChris Williamson
  You think I'm a fucking prick? (laughs) Do you want to tell that story?
25. JWJonny Watson
  We'll have to tell that story-
26. GUGuest
  Yeah, we will.
27. JWJonny Watson
  ... at some point.
28. CWChris Williamson
  Not on this one. We'll do it when I'm not-
29. JWJonny Watson
  It's long.
30. CWChris Williamson
  But yeah, right. What about you, Saf?
29:47 – 38:25
Student-self advice & personality traits that cause trouble
1. CWChris Williamson
  Oh wow, this is a fucking belter of a question. Paul Ogan, uh, "If you were to give your student self," we'll call this first student, like fresher, 18. "If you were to give your student self a life hack, what would it be?"
2. JWJonny Watson
  (groans)
3. CWChris Williamson
  Fuck. When I think about how different my life setup is now to when I was 18 ...
4. JWJonny Watson
  Mm-hmm.
5. CWChris Williamson
  Jeez. Well, 'cause when I was 18, phones weren't a problem, so I wouldn't need to do-
6. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah, no. It's different.
7. CWChris Williamson
  ... any phone reduction stuff. Um ...
8. JWJonny Watson
  Different thing, isn't it?
9. CWChris Williamson
  Pomodoros would be good for me being a student, but probably-
10. JWJonny Watson
  I don't really care about that. I think you got to assume like you came out with your degree.... so that's going to happen anyw- unless your life hack makes that harder.
11. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah. Five by five would be probably something that I wish I'd known. (laughing) Like, I just... I love that. Of all the things. It's like, I just should have done more days where I just did five by five. You're not wrong. Like, you- you-
12. GUGuest
  (laughs) Or 5-3-1.
13. JWJonny Watson
  Mo- yeah. So five- I think, like, sitting down and explaining to my 18-year-old self just, like, nutrition and training.
14. GUGuest
  We did so many stupid diet and nutritional training.
15. JWJonny Watson
  Well, so I suppose that alone would have saved me ho- hundreds of hours probably of my degree.
16. CWChris Williamson
  And, uh, pounds of, of wasted money.
17. JWJonny Watson
  On, like, surge workout fuel-
18. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah.
19. JWJonny Watson
  ... the Anaconda Protocol, Indigo-3G.
20. GUGuest
  Mm-hmm.
21. CWChris Williamson
  It is a level playing field. Everyone's own Indigo-3G.
22. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
23. CWChris Williamson
  It is a game changer.
24. GUGuest
  What about you, Sef? One thing to... Evernote? And then you wouldn't have lost your journal of, like, a decade?
25. Oh, yeah. Well... (laughing) So I- I wrote journal for, a- a daily journal for a decade. And then one day my Microsoft Word file corrupted.
26. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs) It's... and then what'd you do?
27. GUGuest
  And I was like, "Oh, well." (laughing) That's the end of my journaling then. And I just thought, "Well, there's no point in continuing." Like, I just, it's really-
28. JWJonny Watson
  Didn't you say it was, like, the most autistic, um-
29. GUGuest
  Oh, yeah.
30. JWJonny Watson
  ... uh, identification of the day?
38:25 – 49:00
Fitness goals, CrossFit culture, rehab reality, and wearable tech (plus privacy)
1. CWChris Williamson
  Bollocks. Uh, why don't we do a couple of, a couple of quick-fire ones, and then we've got a really, a really good, a meaty, meaty one.
2. JWJonny Watson
  Oh, yes.
3. CWChris Williamson
  Uh, what are Johnny's most and least favorite CrossFit movements, except squats and deadlifts?
4. JWJonny Watson
  Uh, least favorite is running and burpees.
5. CWChris Williamson
  Okay.
6. GUGuest
  Hiccup.
7. JWJonny Watson
  So, okay, so the way it's separated is if I have to move-
8. GUGuest
  Hiccup.
9. JWJonny Watson
  ... something while being stationary, really enjoy it. If I have to move myself, I don't enjoy it, typically.
10. GUGuest
  (laughs)
11. JWJonny Watson
  So, like, pull-ups I find hard, toes-to-bar hard, burpees hard, running extremely hard. Running should just be removed from CrossFit entirely. If it's like rowing, uh, Echo Bike, anything with a barbell, anything with a dumbbell, bring it on.
12. CWChris Williamson
  Having a laugh.
13. JWJonny Watson
  Mm-hmm.
14. CWChris Williamson
  What about, uh, dumbbell box step-overs? Have you done those yet?
15. JWJonny Watson
  Box step-overs? No.
16. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah. So two 22 and a halfs in either, in either hand. Just step over the box. Don't need to step up at the top. Just get over it.
17. JWJonny Watson
  Right.
18. CWChris Williamson
  It is the most glutey thing you've ever done in your life.
19. JWJonny Watson
  Dumbbell press is pretty bad.
20. GUGuest
  Side step.
21. CWChris Williamson
  Dumbbell press is ugly. No, you can do it however.
22. JWJonny Watson
  Okay.
23. CWChris Williamson
  You can do it how- most people go straight on and then twist and turn.
24. JWJonny Watson
  Like, like, uh, actually thrusters I hate. Anything front rack.
25. CWChris Williamson
  Front rack.
26. JWJonny Watson
  Dumbbell press not.
27. GUGuest
  There's no lactate-inducing on there.
28. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah.
29. CWChris Williamson
  Uh, another quick one. Fitness aims for 2020. RX the Open?
30. JWJonny Watson
  RX the Open, yeah.
49:00 – 57:31
Loneliness vs solitude: truth-telling, finding your people, and ‘ignorance is bliss?’
1. CWChris Williamson
  ... that's scary shit. Right, we got a good one here. MrSandshrew: "I ask this already with my own answer, but interested to hear your threes living 20-plus years under the idea that we aren't admired for the depths of our perception. In reference to Chris's favorite writings, Alain de Botton on the high degree of loneliness and its inexorable part of being a sensitive, intelligent human, do you feel the greater your investment and depth of progress in modern wisdom and correlating practice, the more compounded the sense of loneliness? For want of a better word, follow-up, do, does ignorance, uh, do you think ignorance really would be bliss?"
2. GUGuest
  Hm.
3. JWJonny Watson
  Does he mean ignorance from the... Well, o- ob- obviously you don't know, but, like, is it ignorance from a perspective of the root of self-improvement, or-
4. CWChris Williamson
  So the question, the main question here is, "Do you feel the greater your investment and depth of progress in modern wisdom and correlating practice, the more compounded the sense of loneliness?"
5. JWJonny Watson
  In ... Y- well, I mean, I suppose in the, in the most basic sense, like, there are fewer and fewer people who-
6. CWChris Williamson
  Have-
7. JWJonny Watson
  ... you feel similar to.
8. CWChris Williamson
  ... relatable experiences.
9. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah.
10. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah.
11. JWJonny Watson
  Um ...
12. CWChris Williamson
  It's a good question.
13. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah, it is.
14. CWChris Williamson
  I understand what you're asking. So the, the Alain de Botton video from The School of Life, which is Why We're Fated to be Lonely, basically says that, um, people who have, uh, subtle, contrary, or alarming points of view are less likely to be accepted by society at large because of the mimetic nature of us as beings and the fact that we're tribal and we want to be accepted. Given the choice between honesty and acceptability, most of us will compromise our honesty in order to be accepted by people that we're around. Uh, and the, like, long and short of that is that a lot of people compromise who they are so that they can be around people that aren't like them, but just so they're around people. And, like, I- I did that for a very long time. The bottom line is, and it's the thing that we continue to come back to with everybody that I speak to, absolutely everyone, from Andrew Doyle, the guy that created Titanic McGrath, uh, Sam Harris wrote an entire book on it, Jordan Peterson, it's one of his number one rules, tell the truth. And if you're telling the truth, you can't ... Y- y- it doesn't ... You have to follow whatever that particular calling is. You have to do the thing which calls to you.
15. JWJonny Watson
  Mm-hmm.
16. CWChris Williamson
  Um, and for me personally, the more tools that I've got in my toolbox, the better I've been at actually being effective, because my sense of solitude, not loneliness, the time that I spend on my own I love, like, there are fewer and fewer people that I can really, really genuinely connect with about everything that I do, but there are more people that I can connect with about some things that I do.
17. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah.
18. CWChris Williamson
  There's more arms to what I can talk about. I can now go talk about back health. I can genuinely have an hours-long conversation about back health. I couldn't have done that before I started learning things.
19. JWJonny Watson
  I think you, um ... It's the same as, like, a business serving a niche, right? Like, if you try and serve everyone, you end up serving no one. I think you, the people you end up meeting is a result of just going down the route of modern wisdom and the, the conversations you end up having. Like, if you put us three in a bar for an evening and you're like, "You've got to sit in a bar and just talk about whatever you want," like, how much of that time would we spend talking about, like, surface-level, pointless conversation?Like it would all be-
20. CWChris Williamson
  Good shit.
21. JWJonny Watson
  ... some really deep ... Like, the, the other people are walking by, "What the fuck are you talking about?" Like, but y- you end up talking about, like, the finest details of something that we're all really interested in that other people may think is weird, but we're all having the best conversation ever-
22. CWChris Williamson
  Mm-hmm.
23. JWJonny Watson
  ... because it's something we're all interested in. So you e- you either have, like, talk about, like, match of the day, or something that you really, really-
24. CWChris Williamson
  Care about.
25. JWJonny Watson
  ... de- deeply passionate about.
26. CWChris Williamson
  Mm-hmm. What about you, Seth? What do you think?
27. GUGuest
  It's, yeah, you ... It's something you have to make a choice about, whether you are just hanging around with people for the sake of being with people. And if you're compromising on who you are for that, I think you have, you need to really ask yourself the question of maybe it's better to actually withdraw and, um, you know, pursue what you, what you love and, and, uh, think about ... Embed yourself in the thoughts and, um, pursuits that you enjoy, and then you will find people that resonate. Like, we're in an age where you can find people like that so easily now.
28. CWChris Williamson
  Mm-hmm.
29. GUGuest
  Um, if, if you are someone that is feeling lonely and that's something that you're aware of, I think personally, I've not felt loneliness for a long time because I think my life is very much the opposite. Like, I'm just getting pounded wherever I, wherever I go. Like, turn up at work and you just, like, your phone is just going mental and pe- everyone is in demand and you come, you come home and you, you know, your messages and your phone and ev- ev- everything's like ... So I think for me, I also very much value just alone time because it's like, "Ah." (laughs)
30. CWChris Williamson
  There's a difference ... So I love, um, Cal Newport's definition of solitude, which is, uh, time away from the input of other people's thoughts.
57:31 – 1:33:32
Culture, controversy, and modern life: leaked DMs, social media metrics, and heavy topics
1. CWChris Williamson
  I got one more. I got one more before we'll go back onto yours. Uh, this is from Andrew Tate, uh, he is very interesting internet personality and a good online mate of mine. "Can I ask if True Geordie regrets doing a hit piece on me? Now everyone knows he loves dildos."
2. JWJonny Watson
  Oh, dear. What's-
3. CWChris Williamson
  True Geordie-
4. GUGuest
  ... what's the background of that?
5. CWChris Williamson
  So, True Geordie's Instagram DMs have been leaked in which he talks at length about liking to be humiliated, about sucking the dick of a Black man after it's been inside of this girl that he's talking to, about this girl humiliating him and putting dildos inside of his arse.
6. JWJonny Watson
  Right.
7. CWChris Williamson
  Um, about him then sucking the dildos after they've been inside of his own arse.
8. JWJonny Watson
  Who, who, who leaked it?
9. CWChris Williamson
  It was all over Twitter, man.
10. JWJonny Watson
  Right.
11. CWChris Williamson
  That's the... Because you're not on Twitter, but it is everywhere at the moment. And, uh, he called out Andrew Tate. Andrew Tate did this ridiculously big tweet about, uh, why he doesn't like Star Wars.
12. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs)
13. CWChris Williamson
  Uh, and it went, like, hyper viral. Um, and Andrew and Laurence went at him fairly hard.
14. JWJonny Watson
  Right.
15. CWChris Williamson
  Um, and Andrew's recently done a video where he's just like...
16. JWJonny Watson
  Just got to be careful. Just be careful and then let-
17. CWChris Williamson
  Exactly what you said.
18. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah.
19. CWChris Williamson
  He's like, "Man, if you've got shit like this lurking around, don't come after someone like me."
20. JWJonny Watson
  Mm-hmm.
21. CWChris Williamson
  Um, I don't know whether... I don't think it's him that leaked it, but...
22. JWJonny Watson
  (laughs) I think the bigger lesson from that is, like, people think that when they type something in iMessage or WhatsApp or Instagram DM, that, like, it's in this little private world that no one's gonna-
23. CWChris Williamson
  Fucking screenshot away-
24. JWJonny Watson
  But yeah.
25. CWChris Williamson
  ... from being public. Yeah, exactly.
26. JWJonny Watson
  Yeah.
27. CWChris Williamson
  Uh, what you got? Give us another one. Let's do some quick-fire ones. Let's move through some of these.
28. JWJonny Watson
  Mm-hmm.
29. CWChris Williamson
  Let's get through some of this fucking bobby.
30. JWJonny Watson
  Mm, mm, mm, mm. Uh, if you could have chosen your own name, what would you have picked? Abdelbaset-

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Episode 100 kickoff, rapid-fire life hacks & banter

100-episode milestone: origin stories and early podcast memories

Lost pilot episode revival: Yusuf’s ‘lemon ball’ medical saga begins

Diagnosis & exams: ultrasound details and clinical comedy

Urologist visit and transillumination: ‘Christmas light’ moment

The shower decision: trying to ‘pop it’ and the surgery aftermath

Moral of the story: men’s health, embarrassment, and getting help

Q&A begins: favorite novels and reading for pleasure vs productivity

Life hacks that actually stuck: Alfred, phone-outside-bedroom, iteration mindset

Silly would-you-rather, then strength talk: bench press numbers & lifting culture

What everyone should experience: deep conversations & pushing physical limits

Student-self advice & personality traits that cause trouble

Fitness goals, CrossFit culture, rehab reality, and wearable tech (plus privacy)

Loneliness vs solitude: truth-telling, finding your people, and ‘ignorance is bliss?’

Culture, controversy, and modern life: leaked DMs, social media metrics, and heavy topics

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