Episode 100 Special Edition Q&A

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   It's episode 100. (cheering)…

   1. CWChris Williamson0:00

      It's episode 100. (cheering)

   2. NANarrator0:03

      (clapping)

   3. CWChris Williamson0:04

      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 Smith0:10

      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 Williamson0:17

      And then what'd you do?

   6. YSYusef Smith0:17

      I was like, "Oh, well."

   7. NANarrator0:20

      (laughs) (clapping)

   8. YSYusef Smith0:21

      That's the end of my journaling then.

   9. CWChris Williamson0:22

      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 Smith0:30

       (laughs)

   11. NANarrator0:31

       (laughs)

   12. CWChris Williamson0:31

       Let's-

   13. JWJonny Watson0:31

       Seriously, this is exactly what I was gonna say.

   14. CWChris Williamson0:33

       Really?

   15. JWJonny Watson0:34

       Brethren-

   16. CWChris Williamson0:34

       Unbelievable.

   17. YSYusef Smith0:35

       So ... (laughs)

   18. JWJonny Watson0:36

       Fuck, I've got nothing.

   19. YSYusef Smith0:36

       Sorry, man.

   20. CWChris Williamson0:37

       Who is the coolest person who listens to Modern Wisdom? My mum. My mum listens to-

   21. YSYusef Smith0:41

       Aw.

   22. CWChris Williamson0:42

       ... Modern Wisdom, I suppose.

   23. YSYusef Smith0:43

       Okay, so mansplaining, man-spreading.

   24. CWChris Williamson0:45

       Everything with man in it, Manchester.

   25. YSYusef Smith0:47

       Man- (laughs)

   26. JWJonny Watson0:49

       What personality trait has gotten you in the most trouble?

   27. CWChris Williamson0:52

       Trouble?

   28. JWJonny Watson0:53

       Mm-hmm.

   29. NANarrator0:57

       (wind blowing)

   30. CWChris Williamson0:58

       Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. It's episode 100. (cheering)
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Very good. …

   1. JWJonny Watson15:00

      I was younger. Um, I read, like, the Harry Potter books. I read, like, the Philip Pullman stuff.

   2. GUGuest15:06

      Very good.

   3. JWJonny Watson15:07

      Um, yeah.

   4. CWChris Williamson15:08

      Been bought by Amazon, His Dark Materials trilogy.

   5. JWJonny Watson15:10

      Really?

   6. CWChris Williamson15:11

      Uh, or no, sorry, Netflix, bringing out the full thing.

   7. JWJonny Watson15:13

      Wow.

   8. GUGuest15:13

      I'm looking forward to that. Definitely.

   9. CWChris Williamson15:15

      Amazing, man.

   10. JWJonny Watson15:15

       Yeah.

   11. CWChris Williamson15:15

       'Cause they absolutely butchered Northern Lights.

   12. GUGuest15:17

       It w- the, the, there was an old film of Northern Lights and it was, yeah-

   13. CWChris Williamson15:20

       Yeah.

   14. GUGuest15:20

       ... horrendous. Um ...

   15. CWChris Williamson15:22

       How about you, man?

   16. GUGuest15:23

       So, Albert Camus, The Stranger, written by someone whose mum was deaf, and he was brought up in a, in a kind of like really weird, like, silent environment. And you can s- you can feel that in his writing. Um, 1984, very good. Brave New World, and what was the other one? I've forgotten the other one.

   17. JWJonny Watson15:45

       Deep Work by Cal-

   18. GUGuest15:46

       Deep Work (laughs) by Calvin C. Portis.

   19. JWJonny Watson15:47

       Deep Work. The, um, I, I think I watch films more than books.

   20. GUGuest15:51

       Ah, okay. Needful Things by Stephen King.

   21. JWJonny Watson15:56

       Why did you ... Why, why when I said films?

   22. GUGuest15:58

       So, uh, s- sorry to interrupt.

   23. JWJonny Watson15:59

       No, no, that's okay.

   24. GUGuest16:00

       Just because, um, it was one of the best books that I've read, but the film is one of the worst films that I've seen.

   25. JWJonny Watson16:05

       Interesting.

   26. GUGuest16:06

       And so I think they just ... 'cause there, there was a lot of subtext in the book, and then they managed to just-

   27. CWChris Williamson16:10

       Wreck it.

   28. JWJonny Watson16:11

       Mm-hmm.

   29. CWChris Williamson16:11

       Yeah, what a shame.

   30. JWJonny Watson16:12

       I think-
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   (groans) …

   1. CWChris Williamson30:00

      self a life hack, what would it be?"

   2. JWJonny Watson30:02

      (groans)

   3. CWChris Williamson30:03

      Fuck. When I think about how different my life setup is now to when I was 18 ...

   4. JWJonny Watson30:10

      Mm-hmm.

   5. CWChris Williamson30:10

      Jeez. Well, 'cause when I was 18, phones weren't a problem, so I wouldn't need to do-

   6. JWJonny Watson30:14

      Yeah, no. It's different.

   7. CWChris Williamson30:15

      ... any phone reduction stuff. Um ...

   8. JWJonny Watson30:17

      Different thing, isn't it?

   9. CWChris Williamson30:19

      Pomodoros would be good for me being a student, but probably-

   10. JWJonny Watson30:22

       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 Williamson30:30

       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. GUGuest30:47

       (laughs) Or 5-3-1.

   13. JWJonny Watson30:48

       Mo- yeah. So five- I think, like, sitting down and explaining to my 18-year-old self just, like, nutrition and training.

   14. GUGuest30:55

       We did so many stupid diet and nutritional training.

   15. JWJonny Watson30:57

       Well, so I suppose that alone would have saved me ho- hundreds of hours probably of my degree.

   16. CWChris Williamson31:03

       And, uh, pounds of, of wasted money.

   17. JWJonny Watson31:05

       On, like, surge workout fuel-

   18. CWChris Williamson31:07

       Yeah.

   19. JWJonny Watson31:07

       ... the Anaconda Protocol, Indigo-3G.

   20. GUGuest31:10

       Mm-hmm.

   21. CWChris Williamson31:10

       It is a level playing field. Everyone's own Indigo-3G.

   22. JWJonny Watson31:13

       (laughs)

   23. CWChris Williamson31:13

       It is a game changer.

   24. GUGuest31:14

       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 Watson31:30

       (laughs) It's... and then what'd you do?

   27. GUGuest31:32

       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 Watson31:39

       Didn't you say it was, like, the most autistic, um-

   29. GUGuest31:43

       Oh, yeah.

   30. JWJonny Watson31:44

       ... uh, identification of the day?
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Something. …

   1. CWChris Williamson45:00

      selfish. It's 'cause I want to train. I want to train so badly that I'm prepared to do something-

   2. JWJonny Watson45:04

      Something.

   3. CWChris Williamson45:04

      ... super boring to be able to train again.

   4. JWJonny Watson45:07

      Yeah.

   5. CWChris Williamson45:07

      So, it's just lo- like, I'm, I'm almost surprised at myself for that long-termist mentality .

   6. JWJonny Watson45:11

      Well, like, the powerlifting world is probably the biggest example of people who... Like, Layne Norton dinged his back.

   7. GUGuest45:17

      (laughs)

   8. JWJonny Watson45:17

      Like, three times, I think, right before a meet. And there's videos of him, like, he just keeps saying, "Brick. Brick by brick. Brick by brick." So he, like works up and he's like th- does 300 for a double, back it goes again. He's like, "Right, back to doing, like, bird dogs and-"

   9. GUGuest45:31

      Ugh.

   10. JWJonny Watson45:31

       And he just, the whole, he'd building it by goblet squats.

   11. GUGuest45:34

       Keep going.

   12. JWJonny Watson45:34

       But he just keeps going. He's been doing it for years.

   13. CWChris Williamson45:36

       Indomitable man. Um, recommendations for the best wearable fitness tech. So, you have gone back to wearing a Whoop band.

   14. JWJonny Watson45:41

       Uh-oh.

   15. CWChris Williamson45:42

       You've gone back to wearing a Whoop band. Why?

   16. JWJonny Watson45:44

       Whoop.

   17. CWChris Williamson45:45

       Quick, quick one. Why?

   18. JWJonny Watson45:46

       Uh, mainly because, uh, when you're doing powerlifting the only thing that's relevant for it really is HRV. So, the strain, the strain's mainly, mainly a cardio measure, um, like your heart rate zones and other things. So, I just, it's just interest really. Plus, the new Whoop band.

   19. CWChris Williamson46:05

       Have you ordered the new strap?

   20. JWJonny Watson46:07

       Yeah.

   21. CWChris Williamson46:07

       Is it arriving soon?

   22. JWJonny Watson46:08

       Yeah.

   23. CWChris Williamson46:08

       I'll be interested in that.

   24. JWJonny Watson46:09

       Well, no, I've ordered the Whoop 3.

   25. CWChris Williamson46:11

       Oh. Okay.

   26. JWJonny Watson46:11

       Yeah.

   27. CWChris Williamson46:11

       'Cause that's about to lapse.

   28. JWJonny Watson46:12

       So they sent, they sent me a thing saying, "If you just resubscribe, we'll send you a Whoop 3 for free."

   29. CWChris Williamson46:17

       Amazing.

   30. JWJonny Watson46:17

       So I was like, "Well-"
5. 1:00:00 – 1:08:24

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. JWJonny Watson1:00:00

      but it's a, it's a f- link to, like, Jonathan.

   2. GUGuest1:00:03

      Mm-hmm.

   3. CWChris Williamson1:00:03

      I like the fact that I've got two versions of my name. Chris and Christopher.

   4. JWJonny Watson1:00:07

      So, do you get... I suppose you don't have a short version of your name, do you?

   5. CWChris Williamson1:00:11

      Seth.

   6. JWJonny Watson1:00:12

      Yeah, but, like, but... So, okay, so an example.

   7. GUGuest1:00:13

      It's not an official one.

   8. JWJonny Watson1:00:14

      Like, let's say you are... Like, someone has, has, got to know you a bit and they call you Chris.

   9. CWChris Williamson1:00:20

      Mm-hmm.

   10. JWJonny Watson1:00:20

       Rather than Christopher. Do you have then a, a thing of like, "Ah"?

   11. CWChris Williamson1:00:23

       No. So, Christopher-

   12. JWJonny Watson1:00:23

       So I do with Johnny.

   13. CWChris Williamson1:00:24

       Oh, no.

   14. JWJonny Watson1:00:25

       Definitely. Like, if someone calls me Johnny, it's like they know me.

   15. CWChris Williamson1:00:28

       As opposed to Jonathan?

   16. JWJonny Watson1:00:28

       Yeah.

   17. CWChris Williamson1:00:29

       Okay, 'cause they've only seen you on the internet.

   18. JWJonny Watson1:00:30

       Yeah, yeah. Whereas if, if I get Jonathan, it's normally in a formal scenario, but Johnny is friends.

   19. CWChris Williamson1:00:36

       Got you.

   20. JWJonny Watson1:00:36

       So, if someone in a, like, um, position of authority calls me Johnny or, like... I'm trying to think of an example.

   21. CWChris Williamson1:00:43

       Just a good little canary in the coal mine about where they're at.

   22. JWJonny Watson1:00:45

       Yeah.

   23. CWChris Williamson1:00:46

       Like, "Do the coaches in class call you Jonathan but when they're out of class call you Johnny?"

   24. JWJonny Watson1:00:49

       No, they call me Johnny.

   25. CWChris Williamson1:00:50

       That's good.

   26. JWJonny Watson1:00:50

       They call me Johnny.

   27. CWChris Williamson1:00:51

       Uh, what was that? Uh, do we believe in mediums?

   28. JWJonny Watson1:00:53

       Yeah, uh, where's it gone? Do you believe in mediums? Do you think there are some actual science behind their practices?

   29. CWChris Williamson1:00:58

       No.

   30. JWJonny Watson1:00:59

       Derren Brown.

Episode duration: 1:40:20