Life Hacks 106

1. 0:00 – 3:25

   Intro

   1. CWChris Williamson0:00

      (wind blowing) Life hacks 106. Big swinging dicks. (laughs)

   2. JOJonny0:14

      Just like the, uh, the interpreter. When ... So the f- Family Guy producers did a press conference.

   3. CWChris Williamson0:21

      (laughs)

   4. JOJonny0:21

      And they had someone doing the, the sign language.

   5. CWChris Williamson0:24

      Mm-hmm.

   6. JOJonny0:25

      Um, and he- Do the thing again. And he noticed it, and he was... he started saying more and more silly stuff. In fact we could ... Could we include the clip of this? Um.

   7. CWChris Williamson0:33

      Yeah.

   8. JOJonny0:34

      Um, all I can add to that is everyone look at the sign language interpreter right now. Shit. Fuck. Ass.

   9. YUYusef0:39

      Oh, yeah. There we go.

   10. NANarrator0:42

       (laughing)

   11. YUYusef0:43

       Nobody bring up blowjobs that go on for 10 seconds.

   12. NANarrator0:49

       (laughing) (clapping)

   13. YUYusef0:51

       Giant, beefy, flippity-floppity, saggy dong.

   14. NANarrator0:57

       (laughing) (clapping)

   15. YUYusef1:01

       And we're back. Hi there. God, it was weird being away. I'm glad we're back.

   16. CWChris Williamson1:06

       It was. Now we're back.

   17. JOJonny1:07

       Yeah. I didn't like being away.

   18. YUYusef1:08

       So pleased to be back now.

   19. CWChris Williamson1:09

       Yeah, me too. So life hacks 106. Principles for a productive and efficient life.

   20. YUYusef1:15

       You've m- made it trendy. Why have you made it trendy? It was fine as just life hacks.

   21. CWChris Williamson1:18

       (laughs)

   22. JOJonny1:20

       What?

   23. YUYusef1:21

       Where's the tagline from?

   24. CWChris Williamson1:22

       Well, when it's trendy ...

   25. YUYusef1:23

       (laughs)

   26. JOJonny1:23

       Ruins the intro.

   27. CWChris Williamson1:24

       You do. You do. You do.

   28. YUYusef1:26

       Do I ruin it or do I-

   29. CWChris Williamson1:27

       No, you ruin it.

   30. YUYusef1:28

       Is it endearing?
2. 3:25 – 6:30

   Fitness Tip

   1. JOJonny3:25

      Best thing that you can do for your upper body is get a pull-up bar in your house. (clears throat) The pull-up is like the squat of the upper body and if you just have it in your house, especially ... And if you rent somewhere and you're like, "Oh, I c- I can't drill it into the walls of the door 'cause then our landlord will be annoyed." Just get one of the lever ones that you just hook it on. And you pull on one side, it's completely stable. If you have-

   2. YUYusef3:48

      It's a can- cantilever. His name.

   3. JOJonny3:49

      Can-

   4. YUYusef3:50

      Cantilever.

   5. JOJonny3:50

      Canti-lever.

   6. YUYusef3:51

      Cantilever.

   7. JOJonny3:52

      Counter lever.

   8. YUYusef3:53

      Canti-liever.

   9. JOJonny3:54

      Canti-liever. (laughs)

   10. YUYusef3:57

       (laughs)

   11. JOJonny3:57

       I can't-

   12. YUYusef3:57

       It's because-

   13. JOJonny3:57

       ... tell a lever.

   14. YUYusef3:58

       ... force down is applied that way.

   15. JOJonny3:59

       Cantilever without a U. Al-

   16. YUYusef4:01

       (laughs)

   17. JOJonny4:02

       Um, so, so you get one of them.

   18. YUYusef4:04

       (laughs)

   19. JOJonny4:04

       Every time you walk past it, do five pull-ups. Or, like, let's say ... Okay. So-

   20. CWChris Williamson4:09

       Max set. One max set.

   21. JOJonny4:10

       So, yeah. Pick the max number of reps you can do, divide it by two, and do that many number of reps. So if you can do 10 pull-ups in one set, do five. If you can only do three, do one pull-up.

   22. YUYusef4:20

       Mm-hmm.

   23. JOJonny4:20

       If you can't do any pull-ups-

   24. CWChris Williamson4:22

       Jumping bug.

   25. JOJonny4:22

       ... jump to the top, let yourself down as slow as you can. All the way down. Don't do any of this kind of, "Uh, oh, I'm done." Like, jump to the top, let yourself all the way down. That's all you have to do.

   26. CWChris Williamson4:32

       That's what Johnny would do in a CrossFit class.

   27. JOJonny4:34

       Yeah.

   28. YUYusef4:34

       Yeah.

   29. JOJonny4:35

       Keep me going.

   30. YUYusef4:35

       Well, if you're, if you're gonna waste your time, might as well have fun wasting time.
3. 6:30 – 7:40

   USB Hub

   1. CWChris Williamson6:30

      Get Anker Make 1.

   2. YUYusef6:32

      Get them.

   3. CWChris Williamson6:32

      I think the one I've got is an eight stack. So, it's a c- like a little rectangle about that big, maybe few inches by few inches by USB thick. And it's got eight of them. No, not that one.

   4. YUYusef6:45

      (laughs)

   5. JOJonny6:46

      Surely that's the similar-

   6. CWChris Williamson6:48

      Similar, but not, though it's not that one, is it?

   7. JOJonny6:50

      (laughs)

   8. CWChris Williamson6:50

      Um, and it's just going to fix all of your problems. Everything comes out of one area. You're never going to lose plugs again. One thing is plugged in. You don't need a multi-socket, and it, it's just fantastic. It's been an absolute game-changer. Shout outs-

   9. JOJonny7:02

      Have you got any wall sockets that have a USB slot?

   10. CWChris Williamson7:05

       No, 'cause I've got this.

   11. JOJonny7:07

       Okay.

   12. YUYusef7:07

       They're very, very new.

   13. CWChris Williamson7:08

       Fucking, they're fucking stupid, aren't they?

   14. JOJonny7:09

       Yeah, I've got one. I use it for my lamp that needs to be permanently plugged into a USB.

   15. YUYusef7:13

       So, you've bought a lamp-

   16. JOJonny7:16

       Mm-hmm.

   17. YUYusef7:16

       ... and then bought the socket for the lamp? Or were they coincidental?

   18. JOJonny7:19

       Coincidental, yeah. But-

   19. YUYusef7:20

       Right.

   20. JOJonny7:20

       ... like, you can also use it, obviously, for a phone or anything else.

   21. YUYusef7:22

       It's like Philips Hue, isn't it?

   22. CWChris Williamson7:24

       Oh.

   23. YUYusef7:24

       So, having to buy a, a switch for your smart lamp or for your smart light. 525.

   24. CWChris Williamson7:28

       Uh, shout out to, uh, Michael Caggio from Brute Strength for making me jealous of his USB hub while I was in Texas. I got back, and I was like, "I need one of them." It's fantastic.

   25. YUYusef7:38

       Yes, well, there's never enough USBs,

4. 7:40 – 9:05

   Monthly Massage

   1. YUYusef7:40

      is there?

   2. JOJonny7:40

      (clears throat)

   3. CWChris Williamson7:41

      There is now with this hack. So, what's next, Johnny?

   4. YUYusef7:44

      Oh, Christ. Um, get a monthly massage.

   5. CWChris Williamson7:51

      Mm-hmm. Where from? Where do people go if they don't have someone good? 'Cause finding a massage therapist is-

   6. YUYusef7:57

      Oh, yeah. I was going to... Yeah. You say.

   7. JOJonny8:02

      If you're in the Northeast-

   8. YUYusef8:03

      Go you then. (laughs)

   9. JOJonny8:04

      ... for, um, for serious, I, I'm quite limited on availability, but weekends-

   10. CWChris Williamson8:08

       (laughs)

   11. JOJonny8:09

       ... give me a shout.

   12. CWChris Williamson8:09

       Here's the affiliate scheme coming in.

   13. YUYusef8:10

       There's only one downside.

   14. CWChris Williamson8:11

       It's like Bulb all over again, isn't it? (laughs)

   15. YUYusef8:12

       Other than that said, he, you have to listen to normally a lecture sometimes. (laughs)

   16. JOJonny8:16

       On three times speed.

   17. CWChris Williamson8:18

       (laughs)

   18. JOJonny8:18

       I'll give you a discount if I can listen to a lecture on three times speed.

   19. YUYusef8:21

       Would you?

   20. JOJonny8:22

       Yeah. I'll give you five pounds off.

   21. YUYusef8:24

       (laughs)

   22. CWChris Williamson8:25

       (laughs)

   23. JOJonny8:25

       Otherwise, you can listen to whatever of your choosing.

   24. CWChris Williamson8:28

       For a five-pound surplus.

   25. YUYusef8:29

       For a five-pound-

   26. JOJonny8:29

       (laughs)

   27. CWChris Williamson8:29

       So, what you're saying is for a five-pound surplus, you can pay-

   28. JOJonny8:31

       (laughs)

   29. CWChris Williamson8:32

       You can pay to listen to your own music.

   30. YUYusef8:33

       You need to, you need to... What about if it's silent, is that just the price?
5. 9:05 – 11:02

   Get a shoehorn

   1. CWChris Williamson9:05

      Scun.

   2. JOJonny9:06

      Get a shoehorn.

   3. CWChris Williamson9:07

      Aw, yes.

   4. JOJonny9:08

      So, uh, so I did a analysis of this which is like, let's say you wear a lot of Converse and Vans and the k- or any shoe that's just a little willy to try and get on.

   5. CWChris Williamson9:18

      Brogues?

   6. JOJonny9:19

      Brogues are, yeah, massively.

   7. CWChris Williamson9:21

      Bastard.

   8. JOJonny9:21

      If you, or if you get painful heels or blisters on your heels, you need to protect them. So, if you spend... Let's say you take your shoes on and off average three, four times a day. Takes you 15 to 30 seconds per shoe. Let's say 15 seconds. That's 30 seconds per time multiplied by four. That's two minutes per day. Multiply that by 365.

   9. YUYusef9:47

      Alfred?

   10. JOJonny9:48

       That's 730 minutes. That's 12 hours of time-

   11. CWChris Williamson9:54

       Jesus.

   12. JOJonny9:55

       ... that you're putting your shoes on.

   13. YUYusef9:56

       Per, per what?

   14. JOJonny9:57

       Per year that you're putting your shoes on.

   15. CWChris Williamson10:00

       What can you get that down to with a shoehorn?

   16. JOJonny10:01

       Hang on, hang on, I feel like my math's is wrong.

   17. YUYusef10:02

       Yeah, 'cause that doesn't seem that bad, really. And also, like, not something that should be-

   18. CWChris Williamson10:06

       It's only two minutes, it's two minutes a day, though. Just two minutes times 365.

   19. JOJonny10:09

       730.

   20. CWChris Williamson10:10

       That's correct.

   21. JOJonny10:11

       Oh, okay, yeah. Fine. So, you can get one on eBay.

   22. CWChris Williamson10:16

       Times it over your life.

   23. JOJonny10:16

       Plus, how much-

   24. YUYusef10:17

       I'm, I'm guessing a big number.

   25. CWChris Williamson10:17

       Guys, say what you're saving by using the-

   26. JOJonny10:19

       So, like-

   27. CWChris Williamson10:20

       ... shoehorn.

   28. JOJonny10:20

       Okay, so, so that's 12.1 hours. Let's say your, your hourly rate-

   29. YUYusef10:23

       (laughs)

   30. JOJonny10:24

       ... is £10 an hour. You're saving £121 over a year of human man-hours. Imagine how much profit potential you could generate in that time.
6. 11:02 – 12:53

   Tell your friends you miss them

   1. JOJonny11:02

      ...

   2. CWChris Williamson11:03

      What is it, probably 50 inches long?

   3. JOJonny11:05

      Yeah.

   4. YUYusef11:05

      Inces.

   5. CWChris Williamson11:05

      And it's like cold rolled steel or something.

   6. JOJonny11:07

      Oh, hot. It's l- it's lovely. It's very cold.

   7. YUYusef11:08

      We also got you some ham.

   8. CWChris Williamson11:10

      And you ate it?

   9. JOJonny11:11

      Was it, it was Parma Ham?

   10. YUYusef11:11

       Parma Ham.

   11. CWChris Williamson11:12

       Haram?

   12. JOJonny11:13

       Haram.

   13. CWChris Williamson11:13

       And a-

   14. JOJonny11:14

       Green eggs and ham.

   15. YUYusef11:15

       Thomas the Tank Engine card.

   16. JOJonny11:17

       Yeah.

   17. CWChris Williamson11:18

       Uh, that leads quite nicely into, uh, two that I want to do which are more, uh, I guess, friendship based or conceptual based. First one is tell your friends that you miss them. So, this is something that I read in The Six Minute Diary, which you will have heard me speak about a lot and is potentially an upcoming life hack on this episode. Where it says your friends will appreciate you telling them that you're thinking of them. And so many times-

   18. JOJonny11:44

       (clears throat)

   19. CWChris Williamson11:44

       ... you'll think about someone that you care about, whether it be a friend or a family member, and you won't do anything about it. You know, like, that is the lowest hanging fruit of a nice gesture. You s- you send and receive shite messages on a hourly basis on your phone. Just when that happens, now whenever I get a pang of thinking about someone, I just tend to tell them. I try my best to go-

   20. JOJonny12:06

       ... thinking about you, man. Hope you're good," or s- send a message to my mum, my dad, or ask how the dogs are, like. And it's just, it's a nice little rule of thumb, the same way that some people have got, like, trigger numbers, like, wherever they see the number 21, it reminds them to be mindful of whatever it might be.

   21. YUYusef12:20

       Mm-hmm.

   22. JOJonny12:20

       That's kind of the same thing for me. Um, and on the side of that is, be the guy who organizes stuff, or the girl, who organizes stuff for your friends. So I've got a lot of mates who complain that their friends never want to do things, like that they just toss around or they always just go to the pub or do whatever.

   23. YUYusef12:38

       Mm-hmm.

   24. JOJonny12:38

       But the power's in your hands to do this. And if you continue, like, I managed to get you two to go to Iceland.

   25. YUYusef12:44

       Yeah. Y- you are definitely that person. Thin end of the wedge.

   26. CWChris Williamson12:47

       (laughs)

   27. JOJonny12:47

       Yeah, we don't-

   28. YUYusef12:47

       I think we need to talk about that.

   29. JOJonny12:48

       You don't need to do that. You don't have-

   30. CWChris Williamson12:50

       (laughs)
7. 12:53 – 14:50

   Thin end of the wedge

   1. YUYusef12:53

      um, we, we-

   2. JOJonny12:54

      (laughs)

   3. CWChris Williamson12:55

      Anyway.

   4. YUYusef12:55

      So me and Chris were wanting to go to Iceland. Chris and I.

   5. JOJonny12:58

      Chris and I. I took the, uh, I took the plunge. I was like, "Okay, it'll be a nice thing." I got vaginitis on the way, but, um-

   6. YUYusef13:07

      Bad vaginitis.

   7. JOJonny13:07

      Johnny was like, "Oh, no, I really can't afford to go to Iceland at the moment. It's going to be £9,500 for everything." And so Chris-

   8. YUYusef13:15

      Per thing.

   9. JOJonny13:16

      ... bought him-

   10. YUYusef13:16

       Not for everything.

   11. JOJonny13:17

       Per thing.

   12. YUYusef13:17

       Yeah.

   13. JOJonny13:18

       Bought him the plane ticket to Iceland, and then you're, you're the dick if you don't go.

   14. YUYusef13:23

       'Cause that was in-

   15. JOJonny13:24

       Someone's got you a plane ticket.

   16. YUYusef13:24

       ... that was in sterling, wasn't it? That was in sterling.

   17. JOJonny13:26

       That was in sterling.

   18. YUYusef13:26

       Yeah.

   19. JOJonny13:26

       So that was fine.

   20. CWChris Williamson13:27

       (laughs)

   21. JOJonny13:28

       But then, that's, the reason it's thin end of the wedge is because that's really just cranking the door open, but the real cost of Iceland is once you get there and you buy a ready meal from the supermarket and it's £9,500.

   22. YUYusef13:41

       (laughs)

   23. CWChris Williamson13:42

       (laughs)

   24. YUYusef13:42

       You can sense the... So, Chris and I just lived off Domino's the whole time.

   25. JOJonny13:46

       Which was £9,500 per pizza.

   26. YUYusef13:48

       It was cheaper.

   27. CWChris Williamson13:49

       It was cheaper.

   28. YUYusef13:49

       Domino's was, like, standard price, wasn't it?

   29. CWChris Williamson13:51

       Dominos was, yeah.

   30. JOJonny13:52

       Was it?
8. 14:50 – 17:23

   Self monetize

   1. YUYusef14:50

      quick fire. Life hack.

   2. JOJonny14:51

      Oh, yeah.

   3. YUYusef14:53

      This is a biggie. It is. It is. Self-monetize. Okay. So, I heard an example of a guy who... Okay, so step back. If we assume that AI, machine learning, et cetera, is slowly taking over a lot of jobs. So let's say by, in 20 years' time, a good chunk of jobs that are, have a fairly manual component to them will be largely automated. So, you need to not wait until that's happening to go, "Oh shit, I'm unemployed. I need to find something else to do." There's an example of a guy who I heard in a podcast recently who used to work in the same area I used to work in, so he used to work for a big four accountancy firm. Saw this happening. He was like, "Literally, they are hiring less people per year because of all this automation." Left and started selling a product online, using online marketing, et cetera, of just how to get a job at one of these firms and earns more per year than when he was working there, which is a bit meta.

   4. JOJonny15:55

      Mm-hmm.

   5. CWChris Williamson15:55

      So ironic, yeah.

   6. YUYusef15:55

      But like, he just, eh, the point, the point of m- self-monetize is, like, everyone has a, something that they could just coach or offer. Just start doing it as a side hobby. This is the guy from ClickFunnels, right? N- not him. He does-

   7. CWChris Williamson16:11

      No, but that's, that's one of the things that he says, everyone's an expert in something.

   8. YUYusef16:13

      So, so if you want to get expert secrets, let us know. We'll send you a link.

   9. CWChris Williamson16:18

      Speak to the guys. Um-

   10. YUYusef16:21

       Ding.

   11. CWChris Williamson16:21

       ... that's a really good point.

   12. YUYusef16:22

       Mm-hmm.

   13. CWChris Williamson16:22

       I like that a lot. I saw, uh, st- some guy that I started following on Twitter the other day came up with an unbelievable side business that everyone could do. Search local businesses on Google or Facebook. When you view the page, look for the ones that say, "Is this your business? Claim it." Then call that business and say, "You're not doing online marketing. Your competitors are taking your money away from you."

   14. YUYusef16:44

       Mm-hmm.

   15. CWChris Williamson16:45

       Very easily learn online marketing and do their marketing for them.

   16. YUYusef16:48

       Yeah.

   17. CWChris Williamson16:48

       There you go. There's-

   18. YUYusef16:49

       Yeah.

   19. CWChris Williamson16:49

       ... probably a 20 grand a year business just in your back pocket.

   20. YUYusef16:52

       Th- there, there are so many things that, like, so if you are a 20-something, you know, s- like, or 30-something, whatever, like, you're fairly familiar with Facebook, social media, et cetera. There are so many business owners who are 50-something who have no interest in learning, weren't raised with that level of technology, and you can just provide a service online in your pajamas, uh, um-

   21. JOJonny17:13

       Look, I'll teach you how to Tweet face and-

   22. YUYusef17:15

       Tweet face.

   23. JOJonny17:16

       ... you can do it yourself.

   24. YUYusef17:17

       You book the whole thing.

   25. JOJonny17:18

       You book.

   26. YUYusef17:18

       And it's a, that is a side income that, in some cases, can eclipse what you currently

9. 17:23 – 20:42

   Staying one chapter ahead

   1. YUYusef17:23

      earn.

   2. CWChris Williamson17:23

      Mm-hmm.

   3. YUYusef17:23

      So-

   4. JOJonny17:23

      It's a good point, this. Like, you, you probably have an expertise in at least two or three things-

   5. YUYusef17:29

      Mm-hmm.

   6. JOJonny17:30

      ... that you maybe not even consider, you wouldn't even consider to be an expertise in. Like the guy on how to get a job at the company that he works at. That's not something that immediately comes to mind as like-

   7. YUYusef17:39

      Mm-hmm.

   8. JOJonny17:39

      ... "Oh, hang on. I- I've got a job here, so therefore I know how to get the job here."

   9. YUYusef17:43

      Exactly, well-

   10. JOJonny17:44

       So I can sell (laughs) the-

   11. YUYusef17:45

       So we, we say when we're teaching PTs how to move online is just staying one chapter ahead of the people you're helping. So there's a, in the film Catch, Catch Me If You Can, he pretends to teach a cl- or he teaches a class by just reading one chapter ahead of where the class actually is for a whole term. And like, if you're, if you know a little bit about something more than someone else, you can help them get to-

   12. CWChris Williamson18:04

       It's actually an expert.

   13. YUYusef18:05

       ... where you, where you are. Exactly. And actually, that person probably doesn't want someone who's 10 steps or 20 steps ahead 'cause-

   14. JOJonny18:11

       They've lost touch.

   15. YUYusef18:11

       ... it's unrelatable. Yeah.

   16. JOJonny18:12

       Mm-hmm.Nice.

   17. YUYusef18:13

       So-

   18. JOJonny18:14

       That's good, man.

   19. YUYusef18:14

       Don't wait until AI takes your job to get another income.

   20. JOJonny18:17

       Did you see, I did a tweet today, I think one of you guys replied to it, about self-driving cars. Yeah, there we go. Yeah. Um, so there was this, this statistic that I was listening to about self-driving cars will save one million road deaths per year. And people are still arguing over which group of pedestrians it would hit if it was presented with this existential question.

   21. YUYusef18:40

       As, as though humans make the optimal decision. That's the ridiculous thing here.

   22. JOJonny18:44

       Yeah, it's so, yeah- It's- It's like, and this, this is what I said, the perfect thing that I said on the me- uh, the tweet was, "We would sooner die of our own volition-" Mm-hmm. "... than live at the behest of a computer." Mm-hmm. Well, so the, the other, the response was, um, people... After September the 11th, many people decided to drive interstate because they were afraid of September the 11th happening again. Mm-hmm. Which ironically, it's so unlikely that the same terrorist event is going to happen again, because- (clears throat) I mean, where do you think the most security is going to be immediately after an airplane incident?

   23. YUYusef19:18

       Yeah.

   24. JOJonny19:18

       Exactly.

   25. YUYusef19:18

       (laughs)

   26. JOJonny19:19

       And, and terrorists don't like-

   27. YUYusef19:21

       Mm-hmm.

   28. JOJonny19:21

       ... they don't operate - "Right, guys, let's double down on the motorways." (laughs)

   29. YUYusef19:26

       (laughs) I'm just convinced that the motorways are gonna be where it's at.

   30. JOJonny19:28

       I've got a feeling. Look, Jon, Jon.
10. 20:42 – 21:49

    Smells dogs

    1. JOJonny20:42

       Alarmed, very nice indeed. Um, what am I gonna do? Okay, so video guide Dean will love the fact that he's got some partner footage for this, but I recently decided to purchase a pregnancy pillow. (laughs) So glad we can be part of this.

    2. YUYusef20:57

       (laughs) Congratulations.

    3. JOJonny20:58

       Yeah. Um, as you will see here. Let me show you pregnancy pillows. Pregnancy pillow. I mean, first off, this dog always smells fant- there's dogs. All right, there's a... So that's another life hack for next time, the smell of this room and how it happens. Do you want to, I mean, Chris, that is not what I was expecting. It looks like a little man. (laughs) Do you wanna have a go?

    4. YUYusef21:21

       They look like legs.

    5. JOJonny21:21

       Do you wanna have a go? You go. Here we go, okay. I'll have a go. Get in, get in the middle. Oh. And then you're gonna be on top. Oh. Do you know what I mean? Oh.

    6. YUYusef21:35

       This, the sleeping environment in here, Chris, is fantastic.

    7. JOJonny21:37

       Being slowly eaten by this mattress. How is it, Yousaf? This is just pure content here. Bloody lovely.

    8. YUYusef21:42

       What's it like though?

    9. JOJonny21:42

       I can't describe how...

    10. YUYusef21:44

        I don't know. Have you used it yet? No.

    11. JOJonny21:44

        It feels like your body just goes silent.

    12. YUYusef21:46

        You haven't used it yet? (laughs)

    13. JOJonny21:48

        And we're

11. 21:49 – 34:49

    Pregnancy pillow

    1. JOJonny21:49

       back. Oh, thank god. Yeah, I know. Awful when we go away. It's just blackness.

    2. YUYusef21:55

       Um-

    3. JOJonny21:56

       Lose all sense of time.

    4. YUYusef21:57

       It's like being dead.

    5. JOJonny21:57

       How long have we been gone for?

    6. YUYusef21:58

       Uh, that's the thing, I don't know.

    7. JOJonny22:00

       We'll never know.

    8. YUYusef22:01

       Someone may have tampered with things, I'm not sure.

    9. JOJonny22:03

       It's gone.

    10. YUYusef22:03

        Yeah.

    11. JOJonny22:03

        It's gone. So-

    12. YUYusef22:04

        For a moment we was gone.

    13. JOJonny22:05

        (laughs) We was gone.

    14. YUYusef22:07

        (laughs)

    15. JOJonny22:09

        Pregnancy pillow, it's essentially a huge U... Well, as you've just seen in the footage, it's a big U-shaped bastard that lives in your bed.

    16. YUYusef22:16

        (laughs)

    17. JOJonny22:16

        And as opposed to having a normal pillow and not, not being able to support yourself when you roll over, if you're a slightly heavier guy, like we may be, um, it means I don't like... I like sleeping on my side, but I don't like folding over without support underneath, and I never really knew what I was missing until I had a pregnancy pillow. So being able to put something that's both between your legs and that your top arm can rest on takes so much of the pressure off. Like, chest already sat over a computer all day, opening up your scapula, opening up your back, and closing off on your chest, and then you go to bed and mimic the same position.

    18. YUYusef22:58

        Mm-hmm.

    19. JOJonny22:58

        The idea as well th- that by having your legs slightly apart, if you didn't have that, your spine sags because you've got your head elevated, and then the rest of your body is down like that, and then your legs are together, so your spine is laterally sagging down. Whereas if you have your legs slightly apart, it just straightens things up a bit. And then if you do Johnny's tip from life hacks 104, I think. 103, 105. Was it 105? Where you have, in that position- Mm-hmm. ... you have the pillow like this, wedged- Don't forget, don't, don't forget the towel roll.

    20. YUYusef23:26

        There's gotta be a towel, otherwise it doesn't work.

    21. JOJonny23:28

        Oh, the towel roll inside wedged between- Gapping. ... the gap here. Here. Imagine my hand's a towel roll. Imagine my hand's not my hand, it's a towel roll. This hand's my hand. (laughs) Isn't that lovely? Are you sure?

    22. YUYusef23:37

        Certain, I'm certain.

    23. JOJonny23:38

        What's this?

    24. YUYusef23:38

        That's my hand. This is a towel.

    25. JOJonny23:40

        Okay. (laughs)

    26. YUYusef23:41

        And then, if you can't, if you don't have a pregnancy pillow, just a (claps) I mean, you need the-

    27. JOJonny23:44

        Another, another pillow.

    28. YUYusef23:45

        I have a three-pillow setup, unfortunately.

    29. JOJonny23:47

        Would you not consider a pregnancy pillow?

    30. YUYusef23:49

        I'm a bit worried about heat.
12. 34:49 – 35:49

    Knowledge zone

    1. YUYusef34:49

       But-

    2. JOJonny34:49

       'Cause that, that's the difference, like, with heroin. If someone overdoses on heroin, you can give them naloxone, which is fantastic, because it just instantly reverses it, and people just come out of their slump, and ... Like, they'll hate you for it, 'cause they'll, they'll have been having a nice time and then-

    3. YUYusef35:02

       Thought it was a trip.

    4. JOJonny35:03

       Yeah. But caffeine, I feel like-

    5. CWChris Williamson35:06

       No effects.

    6. JOJonny35:06

       ... you've just got to ride it while you get it.

    7. YUYusef35:08

       Just go through it, yeah.

    8. CWChris Williamson35:08

       Ride the wave.

    9. YUYusef35:10

       So as a-

    10. JOJonny35:11

        Give up caffeine?

    11. YUYusef35:12

        ... as a pr- ... And I, like, love coffee as well, so I normally have no time for people who advise these sorts of things.

    12. CWChris Williamson35:18

        Mm-hmm.

    13. YUYusef35:18

        Especially 'cause you don't li-

    14. JOJonny35:19

        The likes of me.

    15. YUYusef35:20

        You don't like coffee. (laughs)

    16. JOJonny35:23

        (laughs) I had three decaffs today, actually.

    17. YUYusef35:24

        Did you?

    18. JOJonny35:25

        D- d- people made me them, so-

    19. YUYusef35:26

        Right.

    20. JOJonny35:26

        ... it was like, "Right, fine."

    21. CWChris Williamson35:27

        You, you wouldn't, like, savor a-

    22. JOJonny35:29

        Yeah.

    23. CWChris Williamson35:29

        Exactly.

    24. YUYusef35:29

        ... savor a nice coffee or buy, like, nice coffee beans up-

    25. JOJonny35:32

        No. You wouldn't do that.

    26. YUYusef35:33

        No. So I ... I'm like that, was like that, so giving it up was really difficult to do, but definite benefits. So now one-

    27. CWChris Williamson35:40

        What's your relationship with coffee now?

    28. YUYusef35:42

        One in the morning-

    29. JOJonny35:42

        I never thought I'd hear you say this. Like, I f-

    30. YUYusef35:44

        Mm-hmm.
13. 35:49 – 36:29

    Coffee addiction

    1. JOJonny35:49

       tied up somewhere, and this is like, this is the android that's, like, "Hmm."

    2. YUYusef35:51

       I think having seen the ... having seen the effect of having two coffees and realizing that I had blunted that-

    3. CWChris Williamson35:59

       (laughs)

    4. YUYusef36:00

       ... is such a strong, like, "Fuck me." Like, "I need to be careful with this stuff."

    5. CWChris Williamson36:04

       Mm-hmm.

    6. JOJonny36:04

       So are you gonna start using it strategically after the 30 days is up?

    7. YUYusef36:08

       The 30 days has gone.

    8. JOJonny36:09

       Right. Okay.

    9. CWChris Williamson36:09

       Yeah.

    10. JOJonny36:09

        So you're back at it?

    11. YUYusef36:10

        Just at 1:00 in the morning.

    12. JOJonny36:11

        Fine.

    13. YUYusef36:12

        So this was actually i- in the w- so George-

    14. JOJonny36:14

        We have a podcast about this.

    15. YUYusef36:16

        We do.

    16. JOJonny36:16

        And, like, Johnny has a protocol on how to reset your coffee addiction without just going cold turkey, 'cause there is-

    17. YUYusef36:21

        Which is not what I did.

    18. JOJonny36:21

        There is real caffeine withdrawal effects, like you will get headaches and everything. And it's not psychogenic, it's like ... is pharmacologic effect

14. 36:29 – 37:09

    Switching to tea

    1. JOJonny36:29

       of it, so-

    2. YUYusef36:29

       Weirdly, I actually found-... switching to tea easier than using decaf.

    3. JOJonny36:36

       Right. Okay.

    4. YUYusef36:36

       But I think just because you aren't, like, having a shit version of something, you're, like, having-

    5. JOJonny36:41

       But decaf's zero caffeine, isn't it? Or is it?

    6. YUYusef36:42

       I think it still has some in trace.

    7. JOJonny36:44

       Okay.

    8. YUYusef36:44

       Yeah. But also, like, it's not as ni-

    9. JOJonny36:46

       Less than tea.

    10. YUYusef36:46

        If you like coffee ... Yeah, it's less than tea.

    11. JOJonny36:49

        Okay.

    12. YUYusef36:50

        Yeah. If you like coffee, it's awful. It's just not as nice.

    13. JOJonny36:54

        Think it's just a knockoff version, right?

    14. YUYusef36:55

        But, like, uh, experimenting with different teas and ... is an interesting experience. And so-

    15. CWChris Williamson37:00

        But also complete waste of time.

    16. YUYusef37:02

        Yeah. Yeah.

    17. JOJonny37:04

        Well, I did something called ... I did a video of, um, the standard fitness morning routine,

15. 37:09 – 38:49

    Anxiety cocktail

    1. JOJonny37:09

       which I like to call the anxiety cocktail, because what people do is they'll get themself out of bed. First thing they do, check their newsfeed on Instagram, um, check if they've got ... Neurotically check if they've had any likes or anything, skip breakfast-

    2. CWChris Williamson37:22

       So you want to externalize. You want to get outside of yourself as fast as possible, don't you?

    3. JOJonny37:26

       Yeah, exactly.

    4. CWChris Williamson37:26

       First thing in the morning.

    5. JOJonny37:27

       So you, you want to sensitize yourself to other people's approval and, and make sure to prime your body for stress, so you, you do that. Then you skip breakfast, so make sure that you get yourself into the most sympathetic dominant, glucagon dominant state that you can. Then you've got this cortisol awakening response, so you've got a natural surge of, of stress hormones coming in, peaking at around 45 minutes.

    6. YUYusef37:47

       (laughs)

    7. JOJonny37:47

       And it's the perfect time to have a, a big cup of coffee.

    8. YUYusef37:50

       (laughs)

    9. JOJonny37:50

       So that, so that when that starts to get absorbed, it just doubles on that stress response, so you get all of that stuff. And then you go sit over a computer, hunched over and multitask, and only look at things that are 30 centimeters away for the whole morning.

    10. CWChris Williamson38:04

        Artificial light.

    11. JOJonny38:05

        And artificial light. Make sure to hammer that. And that is hard to-

    12. YUYusef38:08

        And you don't turn your notifications off on your, like, laptop, do you?

    13. JOJonny38:10

        Oh, God, yes. Have your notifications coming in all the time. (bell dinging)

    14. CWChris Williamson38:12

        Yeah.

    15. JOJonny38:12

        Making you flip between tasks. And that is hard to engineer anxiety in yourself. And, um, uh, I mean, check out the videos on our Instagram, but I look at the, you looked at the, uh, rate of anxiety searches on Google from 2004 to now, and it's doubled. And we wonder why.

    16. YUYusef38:31

        Mm-hmm.

    17. CWChris Williamson38:31

        I did a, an interview today with Recovery for Life, which is a substance abuse and mental health facility in Newcastle. They help people out of substance. They don't give them mental health problems and substance abuse addictions.

    18. YUYusef38:44

        (laughs) Yeah.

    19. CWChris Williamson38:45

        That would be awful. It'd be a poor business model.

    20. JOJonny38:48

        Like the hate crime

16. 38:49 – 39:59

    Rapists exist

    1. JOJonny38:49

       charity that funds hate crimes. (laughs)

    2. YUYusef38:53

       (laughs)

    3. CWChris Williamson38:53

       Rapist for therapist.

    4. YUYusef38:54

       Does that exist?

    5. JOJonny38:55

       No. (laughs)

    6. YUYusef38:55

       All right, okay. (laughs)

    7. CWChris Williamson38:56

       Therapist-

    8. JOJonny38:57

       Awful charity.

    9. CWChris Williamson38:59

       What was that thing I sent you?

    10. JOJonny39:00

        Oh, yeah. The-

    11. CWChris Williamson39:00

        The strength therapist.

    12. JOJonny39:02

        (laughs)

    13. YUYusef39:02

        Strength therapist.

    14. CWChris Williamson39:03

        The strength therapist.

    15. JOJonny39:05

        Like the pediatrician that got a brick thrown through his window.

    16. CWChris Williamson39:07

        It was off people that read The Sun, though, wasn't it?

    17. JOJonny39:09

        Terrible.

    18. CWChris Williamson39:10

        Uh, have you done ... Is that ... That's not your one.

    19. JOJonny39:12

        No. No.

    20. CWChris Williamson39:12

        What's your one?

    21. JOJonny39:13

        Mine is, and Jet, Shell, BP are all going to be upset at me for this, 'cause it's not really safe, and I ... This is a lifehack-

    22. CWChris Williamson39:22

        Making your own fuel, are you?

    23. JOJonny39:23

        No, no. (laughs) This is a lifehack that I do-

    24. CWChris Williamson39:25

        I wouldn't be surprised if ... importing it from Yemen.

    25. JOJonny39:27

        Yeah. I'm not saying ... I mean, it, it's certainly-

    26. CWChris Williamson39:29

        The Yemeni fuel is.

    27. JOJonny39:30

        The ... It, it's against the regulations of these places and ... It, it's just what I do. I'm not saying you should. But when it's a cold day and you want to fill up your car with petrol, or when I want to fill up my car with petrol, I put the thing in, take the cap, squeeze it underneath the handle, and then get back in the car. And then the petrol will-

    28. CWChris Williamson39:53

        Hands-free filling.

    29. JOJonny39:54

        ... hands-free. It'll fill up and it'll stop on its own account. You can then get back out-

    30. CWChris Williamson39:58

        You know where you want to

17. 39:59 – 43:29

    Petrol station story

    1. CWChris Williamson39:59

       go?

    2. JOJonny39:59

       ... unhook it.

    3. CWChris Williamson39:59

       Any city center Shell between the hours of 12 and 5:00 on a weekday.

    4. JOJonny40:04

       Is there a dude doing it?

    5. CWChris Williamson40:05

       Forecourt, um-

    6. YUYusef40:07

       Really?

    7. CWChris Williamson40:08

       Attendant, yeah.

    8. YUYusef40:09

       I just-

    9. CWChris Williamson40:09

       "How much do you want, mate?"

    10. YUYusef40:10

        I just don't care.

    11. CWChris Williamson40:11

        "Fill her up."

    12. YUYusef40:13

        You know what I have really changed my opinion of? The frequency of filling my car up.

    13. CWChris Williamson40:17

        Full tank of gas? Are you going full tank?

    14. YUYusef40:19

        Yeah, I am.

    15. JOJonny40:20

        (clapping) .

    16. YUYusef40:20

        Yes! Get in!

    17. JOJonny40:22

        Did, did, did ...

    18. YUYusef40:23

        Chalk one up on the board for Williams.

    19. CWChris Williamson40:25

        So there's an interesting story.

    20. JOJonny40:25

        Did we argue about this on one of the earlier lifehacks?

    21. CWChris Williamson40:28

        Fucking rights, did we?

    22. YUYusef40:29

        I feel like we did. The, the story of why is that I got started on a petrol station.

    23. CWChris Williamson40:33

        (laughs)

    24. JOJonny40:33

        Oh, no. You want to minimize the number of times.

    25. YUYusef40:36

        So I got started on in my local petrol station.

    26. JOJonny40:39

        Oh, no, I remember about this.

    27. CWChris Williamson40:41

        What happened? I've never heard of this. Who by?

    28. YUYusef40:43

        I don't ... I've got no idea.

    29. JOJonny40:43

        Going short legs. Start on.

    30. YUYusef40:44

        I really-
18. 43:29 – 44:14

    Moving car into space

    1. CWChris Williamson43:29

       socks on.

    2. YUYusef43:29

       And, uh, and I... So I, I then left, started walking out, and, and Becca's, like, just shell-shocked by the whole thing, so she ran off to her car. And I was kind of, like, looking over my shoulder. And the guy, again, like, followed me, but stayed a distance behind. And then I just got in my car and drove off.

    3. CWChris Williamson43:46

       Aren't people bizarre?

    4. JOJonny43:47

       It was all because you didn't move away from the-

    5. YUYusef43:49

       See, he, he feels, he felt like I should've filled up and then moved my car forward into space-

    6. CWChris Williamson43:55

       Yeah.

    7. JOJonny43:55

       I've never seen anyone do that.

    8. YUYusef43:56

       ... that would've blocked someone else coming round, and it would've been mayhem.

    9. CWChris Williamson43:59

       Mm-hmm.

    10. YUYusef44:00

        But, so what, what did I think he got annoyed about was me doing that. But all I was trying to say-

    11. JOJonny44:05

        In reverence.

    12. YUYusef44:05

        ... was like, "I don't know-"

    13. CWChris Williamson44:07

        "I don't know what the fuck you're doing."

    14. YUYusef44:07

        "... if, if you've got something to say, get out of the car."

    15. CWChris Williamson44:10

        Well, that's what he did.

    16. YUYusef44:11

        But then he didn't say what he-

    17. JOJonny44:12

        (laughs)

    18. YUYusef44:12

        He, like, only after the fact

19. 44:14 – 45:29

    You need me hit me

    1. YUYusef44:14

       did he fl- not, "Excuse me, would you mind?" But, like, you want to say, "Mate, there is a queue. There is a fixed rate of processing here. You're gonna have to wait the same amount of time."

    2. JOJonny44:23

       Do you remember when-

    3. YUYusef44:24

       But anyway, so now I've filled up my, now I've filled up my car.

    4. JOJonny44:26

       Nice.

    5. CWChris Williamson44:27

       Do you remember when that guy got upset because I got near his beer in Nando's?

    6. YUYusef44:31

       Oh, yeah.

    7. JOJonny44:31

       I remember.

    8. CWChris Williamson44:32

       We... Your reaction was, was very good to that, I thought, 'cause the guy... I can't remember what he said to you. We... So, I was walking down a set of steps in Nando's. Uh, we'd been for food. And this guy was sat down with his family at, like, 3:00 in the afternoon on a Saturday, having a beer, like, as you do when you're a dad with your daughter.

    9. YUYusef44:48

       (laughs)

    10. CWChris Williamson44:48

        And I w- we went down, and I was the closest to the table, as you walk in tandem.

    11. JOJonny44:54

        You weren't lurching over the table, though, like-

    12. CWChris Williamson44:55

        I was at least two feet.

    13. YUYusef44:57

        Yeah, you-

    14. CWChris Williamson44:57

        I was at least two feet away from his beer.

    15. YUYusef44:59

        Right.

    16. CWChris Williamson45:00

        And as I walked passed, he said, "W- watch it, mate." And I turned round and looked at him. He was, he was sat down. Went, just looked. He said, "You, you nearly hit me beer." Just went, "Oh."

    17. JOJonny45:14

        (laughs)

    18. CWChris Williamson45:15

        And walked off. (laughs)

    19. JOJonny45:17

        Yeah, and he went, "Okay," or something.

    20. CWChris Williamson45:19

        Yeah. "Oh." Um-

    21. JOJonny45:21

        Right, what was the life hack out of that?

    22. CWChris Williamson45:22

        Fill up your car with the full-

    23. JOJonny45:24

        Fill-

    24. CWChris Williamson45:24

        No, that wasn't-

    25. JOJonny45:24

        Out of the petrol?

    26. CWChris Williamson45:24

        That wasn't even a life hack.

    27. JOJonny45:25

        It was you... Uh, so I am going-

    28. CWChris Williamson45:28

        Oh, yeah.

20. 45:29 – 46:09

    Whats going on

    1. CWChris Williamson45:29

       Yeah.

    2. JOJonny45:29

       ... going to do... So, when you go-

    3. CWChris Williamson45:31

       Did you just give it to me?

    4. YUYusef45:32

       No, you said one, didn't you?

    5. CWChris Williamson45:32

       You just did one.

    6. JOJonny45:33

       Oh, so you... What, so you've gone... Oh, I see, that was just to-

    7. YUYusef45:35

       That was just a story.

    8. CWChris Williamson45:35

       That wasn't a, yeah, yeah. This is what happens. This is why I don't have a life hack ready.

    9. JOJonny45:38

       Yeah, I see. Just gives you some mayonnaise, can't-

    10. CWChris Williamson45:39

        Well, I'm, okay, I'm about, I'm about to go now, right? I'm about to go now-

    11. YUYusef45:43

        Need an MC.

    12. CWChris Williamson45:44

        I'm gonna... Video guy, Dean, can compere.

    13. YUYusef45:46

        VMD.

    14. CWChris Williamson45:48

        (clicks tongue) I'm gonna go now-

    15. YUYusef45:48

        Video, Martin Dean.

    16. CWChris Williamson45:49

        ... and then you're going to go...

    17. YUYusef45:50

        (laughs)

    18. CWChris Williamson45:52

        You're going to go after me. Okay?

    19. YUYusef45:54

        Got it.

    20. CWChris Williamson45:54

        So-

    21. JOJonny45:55

        Look how warm his forearm is.

    22. YUYusef45:56

        Oh, this is the problem.

    23. CWChris Williamson45:57

        Do you want to have a go? Do you want to have a go?

    24. JOJonny45:58

        That's so weird.

    25. YUYusef45:58

        That's what happens when there's lots of fluid rushing round.

    26. JOJonny46:00

        It's, it's the high pressure, isn't it?

    27. YUYusef46:01

        Yeah.

    28. CWChris Williamson46:02

        Turgid.

    29. YUYusef46:03

        I think if I squeeze enough, it will pop.

    30. CWChris Williamson46:05

        Let's not.
21. 46:09 – 46:59

    The best way

    1. YUYusef46:09

    2. CWChris Williamson46:09

       Okay. So, uh, when you go away on holiday, especially if you're going away on a party holiday abroad, the best way... That's how you party, isn't it? Yeah.

    3. JOJonny46:19

       Yep.

    4. CWChris Williamson46:20

       The best way to make sure that your luggage is not wasteful, and also to remove any torment from-

    5. JOJonny46:30

       Sorry.

    6. YUYusef46:30

       (laughs)

    7. JOJonny46:30

       Two liters of shampoo.

    8. CWChris Williamson46:33

       (laughs)

    9. JOJonny46:33

       And, and, and to get it confiscated.

    10. YUYusef46:34

        I'm so glad you raised it.

    11. JOJonny46:36

        And to get it confiscated by the Scottish, um, woman at the ch- checkout.

    12. YUYusef46:40

        You can do that.

    13. JOJonny46:40

        Then, then woo her into letting you take it. But then on the way back, get stopped by some angry German woman at the airport who won't let you take it.

    14. YUYusef46:49

        Chris tried to take four kilos of TRESemme shampoo to Iceland.

    15. JOJonny46:54

        For a three-day trip.

    16. CWChris Williamson46:56

        Well, it was the only size I had.

22. 46:59 – 48:29

    Make it better

    1. JOJonny46:59

       Fair enough.

    2. CWChris Williamson47:00

       I had nothing to decant it into.

    3. YUYusef47:01

       It was all brand new, unopened.

    4. CWChris Williamson47:03

       I didn't have any sh- sh- shampoo. It was an awkward time of batching, and I was bulk-buying. Anyway.

    5. YUYusef47:09

       What, what was more awkward was the shower.

    6. CWChris Williamson47:11

       Mm-hmm.

    7. YUYusef47:11

       It smelt like eggs, didn't it, in Iceland? And you had to kneel down.

    8. CWChris Williamson47:14

       You did have to kneel down. Well, you had to, you had to lie, didn't you?

    9. JOJonny47:16

       (laughs)

    10. CWChris Williamson47:17

        You were just flat.

    11. YUYusef47:17

        I had to lie and just douse myself in egg-warm water.

    12. JOJonny47:21

        Eggy bathtub.

    13. CWChris Williamson47:21

        (laughs) So, when you're going away-

    14. YUYusef47:22

        But luckily I have four kilos of TRESemme shampoo to make it better.

    15. JOJonny47:24

        (laughs)

    16. CWChris Williamson47:25

        When you are going away on holiday, plan your outfits for the nighttime in advance. Ideally, if you can plan the daytime as well. But rather than just arbitrarily throwing volumes of clothes, underwear, socks, trousers, et cetera. So, perfect example, there, so we went away to Vegas for my business partner's stag do. I was rooming with a guy. The guy who I was rooming with planned his outfit for night one, night two, night three and night four in advance, including accessories, so a handkerchief or a tie, a shirt, cufflinks, whatever he needed. And then he got there, laid them out, first one, second one, third one, fourth one. On an evening time, he knew exactly what he was going to wear. First advantage, which is huge, because you don't actually... You've outsourced the decision-making, not only to a time when you've got a little bit more awareness, but also to one where you're not on fucking holiday, supposed to be enjoying yourself.

    17. YUYusef48:16

        Mm-hmm.

    18. CWChris Williamson48:17

        And then secondly, he had no wastage of clothes. Everything got worn. Nothing got wasted. And that was it.

    19. YUYusef48:24

        Mm-hmm.

    20. CWChris Williamson48:25

        Like, it is... It's an unbelievable tactic, and I, I can't believe...

23. 48:29 – 49:39

    Wear neutral clothing

    1. CWChris Williamson48:29

       I guess, I bet that girls do it. Actually, no, I bet that guys just pack-

    2. YUYusef48:32

       I think girls are worse.

    3. CWChris Williamson48:32

       ... fucking loads of stuff, don't they?

    4. YUYusef48:33

       Mm-hmm. So, I try and do it, but I, what I'm... What's happened to me a couple of times is, um, something's got dirty or, like, something's happened, and then suddenly the whole thing's out of sorts.

    5. JOJonny48:43

       Thrown into disarray.

    6. YUYusef48:44

       Yeah.

    7. CWChris Williamson48:44

       You know what you need, though?

    8. YUYusef48:45

       Yeah.

    9. JOJonny48:45

       Yeah.

    10. CWChris Williamson48:45

        You need, you need two neutral pieces of buffer clothing. (laughs)

    11. YUYusef48:49

        Yep, you do.

    12. CWChris Williamson48:51

        Pale blue shirt, parrot blue jeans-

    13. YUYusef48:53

        Like floating t-shirts that could be used?

    14. CWChris Williamson48:55

        Yeah, yeah. Couple of pairs of pants, spare pants, couple of pairs of spare socks and that's it. But, like-

    15. YUYusef49:00

        That's interesting.

    16. CWChris Williamson49:00

        ... the key bits. Like you, if you, if you get your blazer dirty, like whatever. Go, go in your shirt.

    17. YUYusef49:05

        Mm-hmm.

    18. CWChris Williamson49:05

        You'll be fine.

    19. YUYusef49:06

        Go topless.

    20. CWChris Williamson49:06

        Uh, go topless, yeah. Get your top off.

    21. YUYusef49:08

        Tapless. Tapless.

    22. CWChris Williamson49:09

        Taps off. Right. Is it me? Yeah. (cat meows)

    23. JOJonny49:11

        Meow.

    24. CWChris Williamson49:12

        You weren't ready.

    25. YUYusef49:13

        Can't leave without you. (laughs)

    26. CWChris Williamson49:16

        Thank you for filling in. Um-

    27. JOJonny49:20

        My leg feels like a turkey breast. Ugh.

    28. CWChris Williamson49:22

        One all.

    29. YUYusef49:23

        Okay.

    30. CWChris Williamson49:24

        Spend time by yourself. Ooh, nice.
24. 49:39 – 51:34

    Spend time by yourself

    1. JOJonny49:39

    2. YUYusef49:39

       Mm-hmm.

    3. CWChris Williamson49:39

       So, spend time by yourself. Do you mean spend time alone with your own thoughts? Because you can be by yourself in a car driving, but listen to the radio.

    4. YUYusef49:49

       Listen to podcasts. Yeah, that's a good point.

    5. CWChris Williamson49:50

       Or a podcast or reading.

    6. YUYusef49:51

       So yeah, I think with quiet-

    7. JOJonny49:52

       Well, being on the phone, talking to people is still not by yourself.

    8. YUYusef49:54

       Good point also.

    9. JOJonny49:55

       Yeah.

    10. YUYusef49:56

        So, for, for people who are kind of interested in self-development, it's probably the, it's probably meditation is a good way of you are completely by yourself at that point and all that exists is, is you and your thoughts. But I think just trying to take time away from constantly trying to impress other people or, you know, I'm, I'm thinking of the standard kind of nine to five worker life.

    11. CWChris Williamson50:19

        Mm-hmm.

    12. YUYusef50:20

        Um, 'cause I just think you can-

    13. CWChris Williamson50:22

        Stimulus.

    14. YUYusef50:22

        You, you... Things build up in you and are, are left unchecked.

    15. JOJonny50:26

        Especially if you work with people.

    16. YUYusef50:28

        Mm-hmm.

    17. JOJonny50:28

        'Cause then you're sat in other people's energy field constantly-

    18. YUYusef50:31

        Yeah.

    19. JOJonny50:32

        ... um, with a crowd of people and you accumulate emotional fatigue as well. Where if you're in a customer-facing or even if you're not, but particularly customer-facing or client-facing service delivery type jobs, you have to maintain this kind of saccharine smile all the time or a professional face that wears you down over time. And then by the end of the day, that has to be shaken off and it can only really be done when-

    20. CWChris Williamson50:58

        Got discharge from it.

    21. JOJonny50:59

        ... you've been with yourself for some time. And then it's, it's the reason why like, you know, you have the, the standard, someone comes home after a, a hard day at work or a day working where they have to talk to people and the partner's like, "Oh, how, how's it going?" And you're like, "I don't talk to anyone. Leave me alone." Yeah.

    22. YUYusef51:11

        Mm-hmm.

    23. JOJonny51:12

        And they're the last person that you want to vent on.

    24. YUYusef51:15

        So it's, it's once something I get, a benefit I get from the gym, even though I get criti- criticized that I'm not very social. Like I quite like... It's just like me, a difficult task, my thoughts, it's not complicated.

    25. JOJonny51:27

        Which is why relationships are so hard too.

    26. CWChris Williamson51:28

        But you do have your, you do, you do have your phone.

    27. YUYusef51:31

        I do have my phone. I do.

    28. CWChris Williamson51:33

        That's so... For

25. 51:34 – 52:59

    Leave the phone behind

    1. CWChris Williamson51:34

       me to upgrade that, the gym experience-

    2. YUYusef51:36

       Don't take my phone?

    3. CWChris Williamson51:36

       Yeah. Leave the phone behind.

    4. YUYusef51:38

       Mm-hmm.

    5. CWChris Williamson51:38

       Use, if you need to track your lifts, use a whiteboard if you're at a proper good gym or-

    6. JOJonny51:43

       Mm-hmm. I still haven't done that. That was life hacks 101 and I still need to-

    7. CWChris Williamson51:46

       Put your phone away, man.

    8. YUYusef51:46

       Well, when you give up your phone, you get the Apple truffle.

    9. JOJonny51:48

       Yeah. I think I'll, I need to replace it with another (overlapping speech)

    10. YUYusef51:51

        So one of the problems is, is using obviously a modern phone for a lot of people is their music.

    11. CWChris Williamson51:56

        Bluetooth headphones.

    12. YUYusef51:57

        Where they take notes.

    13. JOJonny51:59

        Sat nav. (laughs)

    14. CWChris Williamson52:00

        Yeah. So those, those things.

    15. YUYusef52:01

        So Bluetooth, bluetooth headphones fixes the music problem.

    16. CWChris Williamson52:03

        Mm-hmm.

    17. YUYusef52:04

        Note pad and pen fixes tracking lifts.

    18. CWChris Williamson52:06

        Mm-hmm.

    19. YUYusef52:08

        Mm-hmm. Fine. Fine.

    20. CWChris Williamson52:10

        Uh, uh, so the time alone thing I like.

    21. YUYusef52:12

        Mm-hmm.

    22. CWChris Williamson52:13

        You've said a model for people who maybe aren't doing as much introspective work.

    23. YUYusef52:18

        Mm-hmm.

    24. CWChris Williamson52:19

        But then moving forward, if I, uh... We've mentioned this before, I can't remember where. If you were told to go and sit in a room for 30 minutes on your own and you couldn't meditate-

    25. YUYusef52:30

        Mm-hmm.

    26. CWChris Williamson52:31

        ... with nothing, nothing to do, no stimulus.

    27. YUYusef52:33

        Mm-hmm.

    28. CWChris Williamson52:35

        I would say even for me as an only child who spends the vast majority of his time on his own, that would be pretty testing.

    29. YUYusef52:41

        So that, you know Moment?

    30. CWChris Williamson52:43

        Yeah.
26. 52:59 – 55:29

    Be lost in thought

    1. CWChris Williamson52:59

       think about?

    2. JOJonny52:59

       You do it in the house?

    3. YUYusef53:00

       Yeah.

    4. CWChris Williamson53:00

       Is it annoying to be lost in thought when you spend a lot of time sat on your own in silence trying to not be lost in thought when you meditate?

    5. YUYusef53:05

       I don't... I'd... So at the time, I didn't give it that much thought, weirdly. I was like, "I'm just gonna go sit there for half an hour." It's not that long.

    6. JOJonny53:14

       Becca comes in, "What are you doing?"

    7. YUYusef53:16

       She's used to it now, like weird shit that I do. So like, um-

    8. JOJonny53:20

       Were you facing the wall as well? Facing the corner so it's just-

    9. YUYusef53:22

       I was just sat. I think I... Yeah. Just sat looking at the ceiling.

    10. CWChris Williamson53:30

        Fair enough. Well, I like that.

    11. YUYusef53:31

        Interesting test. Yeah.

    12. CWChris Williamson53:32

        Spend some, spend some time. I mean you can double this up. There's so much low-hanging fruit for stuff like this. You can double it up with going in nature.

    13. YUYusef53:38

        Mm-hmm.

    14. CWChris Williamson53:38

        Like add, add that on top. Go bare feet, go on the grass.

    15. JOJonny53:42

        Yeah. Time alone in nature, bare feet. Lovely.

    16. CWChris Williamson53:45

        Like so much low-hanging fruit from one thing, right?

    17. YUYusef53:47

        I... So we've been through this. I have no attraction to the nature thing.

    18. CWChris Williamson53:52

        Oh man, it blows my mind.

    19. YUYusef53:52

        I don't know why. Apart from the beach. I like the beach.

    20. CWChris Williamson53:55

        Every, every morning and every evening now I'm doing probably maybe between th- two and five minutes of just standing outside and just... Even if it's rain... Even if it's been, it's been absolutely pouring down before, first thing in the morning go outside and, uh, stand in the rain and just-

    21. JOJonny54:12

        So I should say for, for those who want some kind of reason to do this- ... that there are physiological benefits to being at the beach breathing the, um, the, the, the negative ions that are released from the salt in the sea or from some kind of pheromone-like compound that trees release. So if you go into nature around lots of greenery, they have some kind of tranquilizing effect.

    22. CWChris Williamson54:36

        You also looked, you did a matter analysis on earthing?

    23. JOJonny54:41

        Yeah. I, I mean to call it a matter analysis is a bit of a-

    24. CWChris Williamson54:43

        I think that's what you, that's what you called it.

    25. JOJonny54:44

        ... stretch, but yeah. I, I did, I looked at a lot of the research on, on-

    26. CWChris Williamson54:47

        Looked at some stuff.

    27. JOJonny54:48

        ... on grounding. Yeah. And that, that does as hippy-dippy as it sounds have some-

    28. CWChris Williamson54:53

        ... standing on grass with bare feet.

    29. JOJonny54:54

        ... on your feet as well.

    30. CWChris Williamson54:54

        So, um, uh, I think the main thing-
27. 55:29 – 57:59

    Dont spoil a brief

    1. JOJonny55:29

       about it, I think what has pissed me off about the whole thing is a business coach that told me to do it.

    2. CWChris Williamson55:34

       Yeah. Isn't it horrible that people can spoil things for you like that?

    3. JOJonny55:38

       Yeah. (laughs)

    4. CWChris Williamson55:38

       Like, that Aubrey, Aubrey Marcus, I would love to try bone broth.

    5. JOJonny55:42

       Hmm. But he's just annoyed you.

    6. CWChris Williamson55:44

       Aubrey letting his bird get blasted all over by her boyfriend.

    7. JOJonny55:48

       Blasted. (laughs) That's right, I re-

    8. CWChris Williamson55:50

       Flying off to Tex- Texas to get pasted by some fucking jock.

    9. JOJonny55:53

       I wouldn't recommend salt and water, salt and lemon and water in the morning.

    10. CWChris Williamson55:57

        Would you?

    11. JOJonny55:57

        Yeah, just give it a shot.

    12. CWChris Williamson55:58

        Yeah, but Aubrey says it. His wife's getting destroyed by some 21-year-old. (laughs)

    13. JOJonny56:04

        But he also talks about going, going... (laughs) Yeah. But you, you don't know what he's up to.

    14. CWChris Williamson56:07

        Listen, Aubrey's in hospital with a, half a face.

    15. JOJonny56:10

        Oh, is he? What's he done?

    16. CWChris Williamson56:11

        Crashed his car, got half a face.

    17. JOJonny56:14

        Oh, no.

    18. CWChris Williamson56:14

        Unfortunately. Still went to Burning Man though, didn't he? Go on, Aubrey. Right, let's go on. (claps)

    19. JOJonny56:18

        Right. So, in last Life Hacks episode...

    20. CWChris Williamson56:23

        105.

    21. JOJonny56:23

        We covered Toby, which is a Chrome extension that allows you to put a bunch of stuff ... (sighs) It sounds lame, but it ... to put a bunch of different things into, like, so you can have a reading queue, a listening queue, a watching queue. And so it allows you to capture things that people send you and arrange them in a certain way, y-

    22. CWChris Williamson56:42

        It's a very clever bookmark manager.

    23. JOJonny56:44

        Very, yeah, really, really good for that. And it allows you to have one across the top that's like, frequently visited websites, and also you can save sessions. So if you have multiple sessions open, multiple tabs open, you want to resume that later, you can save it all down and call it the name of a certain project.

    24. CWChris Williamson56:58

        Mm-hmm.

    25. JOJonny56:58

        So you can have, like, if you're working on a project for one thing and that requires four websites to be open, you can save it on there and so on. So that's Toby. It's only available on Chrome. It, there isn't a phone equivalent.

    26. CWChris Williamson57:10

        (clears throat)

    27. JOJonny57:10

        And so I needed something that allows me, when I don't have my laptop and I want to work through the queue of articles that you guys have sent me-

    28. CWChris Williamson57:17

        (laughs)

    29. JOJonny57:19

        ... um, and I want to read them, to be able to quickly access them without thinking, "Oh, where was it?" Scroll back through the messages or any, any of that nonsense, and just be able to quickly resume that. So I use Pocket for that. There is an equivalent app called Instapaper. Now, Pocket is great, but they updated it last week to include a text-to-speech function.

    30. CWChris Williamson57:40

        (gasps)
28. 57:59 – 1:09:18

    Read Listen Listen

    1. JOJonny57:59

       on the drive to work in the morning. That's cool.

    2. CWChris Williamson58:02

       Read? Listen.

    3. JOJonny58:03

       Listen, yeah, which is incredible.

    4. CWChris Williamson58:04

       Is Pocket paid?

    5. JOJonny58:06

       There is a paid version, but ...

    6. CWChris Williamson58:08

       What's the upgrade? What do you get?

    7. JOJonny58:09

       You get to-

    8. CWChris Williamson58:09

       No ads or something?

    9. JOJonny58:09

       You get more than three highlights per article, um, and no ads, yeah. But the free version's very well founded.

    10. CWChris Williamson58:14

        I remember freaking into Pocket 'cause I had, when I was doing lots of commuting, I remember thinking, "I wish I could read articles. I wish I could have them read to me."

    11. JOJonny58:20

        So, it's ... Yeah, I'd, I'd get it now 'cause it's, um ... So there's a Mac version and a phone version, they synchronize.

    12. CWChris Williamson58:25

        Ugh.

    13. JOJonny58:26

        It, it might even mean that like, if you haven't got Toby or Pocket yet, start with just Pocket just-

    14. CWChris Williamson58:31

        See if you can expand out.

    15. JOJonny58:32

        Yeah.

    16. CWChris Williamson58:32

        I love Toby. It's so good.

    17. JOJonny58:33

        Yeah, love it. Well, you know what I'd love to know, whether lots of other people have that need.

    18. CWChris Williamson58:39

        Captur- I think the only reason that you would have that need is-

    19. JOJonny58:41

        Mm-hmm. Capture for articles and things to read later.

    20. CWChris Williamson58:43

        That's the, the only reason you'd have that need is if you like to read stuff. Like, if you're not ... First off, if you're not getting sent or fi- discovering it a lot yourself, and then secondly, if you're not actually bothered about reading it.

    21. JOJonny58:54

        Mm-hmm.

    22. CWChris Williamson58:54

        If loads of your friends send you shit that you, that you don't care about, not a problem.

    23. JOJonny58:59

        (laughs) Yeah. I- if your friend sends you something and you just delete-

    24. CWChris Williamson59:02

        Yeah.

    25. JOJonny59:02

        ... then- Yeah. Delete as friend.

    26. CWChris Williamson59:03

        It's, it doesn't, it doesn't matter. Yeah, exactly. Remove the friend.

    27. JOJonny59:05

        (laughs)

    28. CWChris Williamson59:05

        I think what I normally do when people send me stuff, if it's an article, is I'll skim, skim it.

    29. JOJonny59:10

        Mm-hmm.

    30. CWChris Williamson59:11

        But if, like, books or podcasts, I'll do the full thing, and so I have a process. Like, it's Audible and podcasts.

Episode duration: 1:32:27