Life Hacks 109

1. 0:00 – 2:33

   Intro

   1. CWChris Williamson0:00

      It is Life Hacks 109. I am telling you, man-

   2. YUYusef0:07

      (laughs)

   3. CWChris Williamson0:07

      ... this episode's gonna be sick, yeah?

   4. JOJonny0:09

      I don't think mine are better.

   5. CWChris Williamson0:11

      Well, mine-

   6. JOJonny0:11

      They're more organized.

   7. CWChris Williamson0:12

      Mine are fucking mint.

   8. YUYusef0:13

      Mine are new.

   9. JOJonny0:14

      (laughs)

   10. CWChris Williamson0:15

       I have got so many fucking good life hacks here.

   11. JOJonny0:18

       So I love sandwiches. I just think sandwiches are God's gift. Youssef's witnessed what I do to sandwiches.

   12. YUYusef0:25

       Oh.

   13. JOJonny0:25

       So-

   14. YUYusef0:25

       Okay, but you would be banned from Pornhub.

   15. JOJonny0:27

       (laughs)

   16. YUYusef0:27

       What, what, what Johnny does to sandwiches, like it wouldn't even be-

   17. CWChris Williamson0:30

       Yogurt to me is a non-savory ketchup.

   18. JOJonny0:32

       (laughs)

   19. YUYusef0:33

       Mm-hmm.

   20. CWChris Williamson0:36

       It's a garnish.

   21. JOJonny0:37

       Yeah. That's the closest I've ever felt to, like a, a religious pulling towards a belief, like that yogurt is a, is a savory ketchup.

   22. CWChris Williamson0:45

       (laughs)

   23. YUYusef0:45

       (laughs)

   24. JOJonny0:47

       I, I just have this feeling like I'm being bombarded with media that's just telling me that, like the next 10 years are just gonna be fucking shit.

   25. CWChris Williamson0:57

       Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. I'm joined by none other than Johnny and Youssef from propanefitness.com.

   26. YUYusef1:03

       Hello.

   27. JOJonny1:04

       Hi again, Youssef.

   28. CWChris Williamson1:04

       It is Life Hacks 109: tools, approaches, apps, and products for a productive and efficient life. And this episode is brought to you by The Protein Works. Thank you very much to The Protein Works for sponsoring this episode. We are massive fans of steel shakers. If you haven't transformed your life and your training by moving from plastic to steel, you have to. Much more durable-

   29. YUYusef1:26

       Life changing.

   30. CWChris Williamson1:27

       Unbelievable.
2. 2:33 – 4:05

   Screenshot Crop

   1. JOJonny2:33

      would come round and ...

   2. CWChris Williamson2:33

      So yeah, anyway. If you want to win-

   3. YUYusef2:35

      (laughs)

   4. CWChris Williamson2:35

      If you want to win one, uh, just share the episode, tag me in the share @chriswillex on all social media.

   5. JOJonny2:41

      Don't need your handle.

   6. CWChris Williamson2:41

      Oh, also, before I forget, um, people on YouTube, links to everything we're talking about will be in the show notes below. But if you follow the links, you will be supporting the podcast at no extra cost to yourself because we are on the Amazon Affiliate scheme. Thank you. So yeah, onto life hacks. We've prepped quite hard for this episode. So we have got some motherfuckers. I am telling you, man-

   7. YUYusef3:06

      (laughs)

   8. CWChris Williamson3:06

      ... this episode's gonna be sick, yeah?

   9. JOJonny3:08

      I don't think mine are better.

   10. CWChris Williamson3:09

       Mine are f- well, mine-

   11. JOJonny3:10

       They're more organized.

   12. CWChris Williamson3:11

       Mine are fucking mint.

   13. YUYusef3:13

       Mine are new.

   14. CWChris Williamson3:14

       (laughs)

   15. JOJonny3:14

       (laughs)

   16. CWChris Williamson3:15

       Yours aren't the same.

   17. YUYusef3:16

       So they've been on a course.

   18. CWChris Williamson3:16

       Okay, so I'm gonna go first.

   19. JOJonny3:17

       We think they're new.

   20. YUYusef3:18

       Yeah.

   21. CWChris Williamson3:19

       Uh, I am going to go first, and first one is when you take a screenshot on iPhone-

   22. JOJonny3:25

       Yeah.

   23. CWChris Williamson3:25

       ... the corners of the screen, when the screenshot pops up, you can just press on the screenshot-

   24. JOJonny3:33

       Mm-hmm.

   25. CWChris Williamson3:33

       ... open it out, and you'll see on the outside, you have the frame where you can pull the crop in.

   26. JOJonny3:39

       Yep.

   27. CWChris Williamson3:39

       So you can crop naturally from that. So I didn't know that you couldn't just, uh, you didn't just have to go back into photo editor afterwards. Take a screenshot. So do it now. Uh, take a screenshot on your phone, and then if you press on the picture, and then the corners of the image, you can pull down and crop from there. So you can zoom in, you can zoom it to square, you can just take particular areas out of it. So you don't actually need to ... There you go.

   28. JOJonny4:02

       I also did a little line by accident.

   29. CWChris Williamson4:04

       Oh, you've drawn on it.

3. 4:05 – 6:39

   Filter Coffee

   1. CWChris Williamson4:05

   2. YUYusef4:05

      (laughs)

   3. JOJonny4:05

      But that's okay.

   4. CWChris Williamson4:05

      But yeah, I mean, game changer. There we go. Right, Johnny, hot potato.

   5. JOJonny4:09

      Hot potato.

   6. CWChris Williamson4:09

      Hot potato, my man.

   7. JOJonny4:11

      I'm now just gonna undo my screenshot.

   8. CWChris Williamson4:12

      Oh, you've wrecked yours then.

   9. JOJonny4:13

      This is a banger.

   10. CWChris Williamson4:14

       Is it?

   11. JOJonny4:15

       Proper banger.

   12. CWChris Williamson4:16

       Aw.

   13. YUYusef4:16

       Okay.

   14. JOJonny4:16

       Well, at least it is for me, so-

   15. CWChris Williamson4:18

       Ladies, prepare ...

   16. JOJonny4:20

       (laughs)

   17. CWChris Williamson4:20

       Is this for ladies?

   18. JOJonny4:21

       It's not for ladies.

   19. CWChris Williamson4:22

       (laughs)

   20. JOJonny4:22

       I mean, it can be-

   21. CWChris Williamson4:23

       Oh, okay, cool.

   22. JOJonny4:23

       ... if that's what you want. So I-

   23. CWChris Williamson4:24

       Why don't you do one for the ladies, Johnny?

   24. JOJonny4:26

       'Cause I'm ... No.

   25. CWChris Williamson4:28

       (laughs)

   26. YUYusef4:31

       (laughs)

   27. JOJonny4:31

       (laughs) So I order a lot of coffee shop coffee, okay? And I've come to the conclusion that in my humble and correct opinion, filter coffee is the best thing to order, right? Dean VMD agrees with me, um, or VGD, depending on your preference. So filter coffee. So people order like Americano or whatever. Like if you want a, a coffee with milk, right, order a filter coffee. Now, there are two scenarios when you order a filter coffee. One is that there is filter coffee in the machine. Great, winning, fantastic. The second is that they've run out of filter coffee. What are we to do? Well, what they almost always offer to do is to make you an Americano, which is more expensive for the same price.

   28. CWChris Williamson5:16

       Interesting.

   29. YUYusef5:17

       Uh-huh. That's why-

   30. CWChris Williamson5:17

       So what places-
4. 6:39 – 9:58

   Beam Up

   1. CWChris Williamson6:39

      yeah. Okay, so it's not kombucha.

   2. YUYusef6:41

      So it's, it's not kombucha but I'm on a gut health kick at the moment. We can, we can talk about that later. At the moment, you've heard us discuss Alfred at length, which is basically a way to get you away from your trackpad, away from your mouse, and fully into your keyboard.

   3. JOJonny6:57

      (laughs)

   4. YUYusef6:58

      I have gone a step further recently, and there are two apps that I'm using, Vimium and ShortCut. Both of these-

   5. CWChris Williamson7:07

      These are so bean, aren't they?

   6. JOJonny7:08

      I know, bean hard.

   7. YUYusef7:08

      These are very good. So what, what these allow you to do is never need to use the trackpad again. Now, you might think, "Well, it's only a few centimeters away. Why, why wouldn't I use it?" But, um-

   8. JOJonny7:20

      GG moves, GG moves.

   9. YUYusef7:20

      ... the trackpad, yeah, if your hands are just on the keyboard, you're locked in, you're doing work. You're, you're typing, you're doing stuff, you're focused.

   10. CWChris Williamson7:27

       Mm-hmm.

   11. YUYusef7:28

       As soon as you start using the trackpad, it always leads down a horrible garden path to naughty-

   12. CWChris Williamson7:33

       YouTube videos.

   13. YUYusef7:34

       ... YouTube vid- whatever it is, you're just, or scrolling.

   14. CWChris Williamson7:36

       Yeah.

   15. YUYusef7:37

       So this forces you to... So what, what this does, and it's quicker as well when you use ShortCut and Vimium, these are the same app but one is for, specific to a web browser and one is for the general...

   16. CWChris Williamson7:47

       Okay.

   17. YUYusef7:47

       In fact, Apple are now bringing out this in the native version of Catalina, the new MacOS in November or October.

   18. CWChris Williamson7:56

       Interesting.

   19. YUYusef7:57

       So but they're bringing it out specifically for disabled people and voice-activated control, but you can do it with your keyboard. What it does is anything that's possibly clickable on your screen suddenly ha- has a letter assigned to it, a letter or two letters. So you press, like, the special key and it goes boop. And then you just... So like FA is close the thing, BM is minimize this, and CD would be click on this link or whatever.

   20. CWChris Williamson8:21

       Okay.

   21. YUYusef8:21

       And so suddenly you just... The sensation's incredible because it, it feels like more and more you're just at one with your device, and there's no gaps and faffing around with trying to access what... It- it's the polar opposite to when you ask your, when you see your mum googling something. She's like-

   22. CWChris Williamson8:41

       Single finger.

   23. YUYusef8:42

       Single finger, and she's typing H-T-T-P, duh, duh, into the Google search bar-

   24. CWChris Williamson8:48

       (laughs)

   25. YUYusef8:48

       ... and then moves the mouse over.

   26. CWChris Williamson8:50

       And she'll capitalize letters by pressing the Caps Lock on and off.

   27. YUYusef8:53

       Oh.

   28. JOJonny8:54

       Mm-hmm.

   29. CWChris Williamson8:55

       Yeah. Yeah.

   30. JOJonny8:55

       Do you ever worry that you are breaking your laptop?
5. 9:58 – 14:35

   Hold On To The Bottom

   1. CWChris Williamson9:58

      4.0. So Vimium, V-I-M-E-U-M?

   2. JOJonny10:01

      Not working apparently, so I'm told. I've been told to wait for 4.0 Alfred.

   3. YUYusef10:04

      Yeah.

   4. CWChris Williamson10:04

      V-I-M-E-U-M?

   5. YUYusef10:06

      V-I-M-I-U-M.

   6. CWChris Williamson10:07

      I-U-M, and ShortCut.

   7. YUYusef10:09

      Yeah, so these are tools that are designed for coders and programmers who just, they just have their lives correct. They've just got it right, yeah.

   8. CWChris Williamson10:17

      It's a good way to look, like, um, designing for the extremes often means that when you dial that back it's, it's still effective, right? We all want a little bit more efficiency.

   9. JOJonny10:25

      Yeah, it's like Formula 1, isn't it?

   10. CWChris Williamson10:26

       Yeah, sure. Uh, okay, so, um, hold on to the bottom of the steering wheel in a crash.

   11. YUYusef10:33

       Ooh.

   12. CWChris Williamson10:33

       This is something that's taken from NASCAR drivers. So I was listening to a Joe Rogan podcast from maybe a year ago, and he was talking to a very famous NASCAR driver, his dad had been a NASCAR driver and this, that, and the other, actually talking about concussion for quite a while 'cause they suffer with it super bad. These, they're s- absolutely locked into these cars, right? The seat's molded around them essentially, and their 25-point harness and all this stuff. Uh, but yeah, so they were talking about the fact that he rolled his truck, um, remembering this guy essentially crashes cars for a living. Um, and he rolled his truck just on normal streets. So he's driving along, like, I think it was Christmas Day perhaps even, going to his, like, family's house or something like that. Rolled his truck on some ice. And as the car's rolling, he forgot the first rule, as far as he was concerned, of being in a spinning car, which is hold the bottom of the steering wheel and his arms... As soon as you start to spin, your arms will go...

   13. JOJonny11:30

       Yeah.

   14. CWChris Williamson11:30

       It'll be like the Team America signal, you know?

   15. JOJonny11:33

       Mm-hmm.

   16. YUYusef11:33

       (laughs)

   17. JOJonny11:33

       The panic signal, yeah.

   18. CWChris Williamson11:34

       Yeah. So your arms will just start flailing everywhere, and he was saying he had the window open, so he had his, uh, the, uh, window of his big truck open. Car starts rolling, like sausage rolling sideways, and his arm goes out of the window-

   19. JOJonny11:47

       Whoa.

   20. CWChris Williamson11:47

       ... out of the open window and then he pulls it back in just before the car lands on that side-So, you gotta think, if this car's spinning around and your arms are flailing everywhere, the chance of your arm getting crushed-

   21. YUYusef11:58

       Probably.

   22. CWChris Williamson11:59

       ... pretty high. Holding onto the bottom of the steering wheel, so gripping the bottom like that.

   23. YUYusef12:03

       Reverse grip bench press.

   24. JOJonny12:03

       Yeah.

   25. CWChris Williamson12:03

       Reverse grip bench press, yeah. I mean, you could go mixed grip, but, um, you know-

   26. JOJonny12:07

       Ooh.

   27. CWChris Williamson12:07

       ... it's a short, short endurance. But yeah, holding the bottom apparently locks all your organs in a lot more, keeps your arms in tight.

   28. JOJonny12:13

       Yeah.

   29. CWChris Williamson12:14

       Very secure.

   30. JOJonny12:15

       You feel very, you feel very safe.
6. 14:35 – 16:35

   Plank Rush

   1. JOJonny14:35

      rip the seat out in front of you, (laughs) but you're fine.

   2. CWChris Williamson14:37

      Yeah.

   3. JOJonny14:37

      Yeah.

   4. YUYusef14:38

      So quick fact about that, that makes me really furious is, um, there, there was a recent plane crash where I can't remember where it was, but the, the plane landed in some water, it was on fire. People at the front managed to get out. People at the back didn't get out in time and died. It was in the news like-

   5. CWChris Williamson14:55

      Okay.

   6. YUYusef14:56

      ... a few weeks ago. Um, and the reason that the people at the back couldn't get out is because the people at the front were trying to take their luggage off the planes.

   7. JOJonny15:02

      Oh, my God.

   8. CWChris Williamson15:03

      Jesus fucking Christ.

   9. JOJonny15:04

      Oh my God.

   10. YUYusef15:05

       Like, ugh, it makes me so angry. But, um, I don't know what the, uh, moral of that story is.

   11. JOJonny15:09

       "Excuse me, mate. I've just got me duty free. In the back I've got, uh, uh, I've got a, a, a 200 sleeve of Benson Hedges. Uh, menthol."

   12. YUYusef15:18

       In the sea. Like it's gonna be in the sea in a second.

   13. JOJonny15:20

       (laughs)

   14. YUYusef15:21

       So...

   15. JOJonny15:21

       The thing that worries me the most about situations like that is not me, it's the people I'm with.

   16. YUYusef15:27

       Yeah.

   17. JOJonny15:27

       Because I feel like all I would do in practice is just-

   18. CWChris Williamson15:30

       Push.

   19. JOJonny15:31

       Yeah.

   20. CWChris Williamson15:31

       Very hard.

   21. YUYusef15:31

       (laughs)

   22. JOJonny15:32

       Just (laughs) I mean like angle down and then go, but like-

   23. CWChris Williamson15:34

       Do you know what you're, do you know what you're really good at doing?

   24. JOJonny15:37

       Pushing?

   25. CWChris Williamson15:37

       (laughs)

   26. YUYusef15:38

       (laughs) And pulling.

   27. JOJonny15:40

       Technically a dead lift's a push if you think about it.

   28. CWChris Williamson15:42

       Push the floor away.

   29. JOJonny15:44

       Push away.

   30. YUYusef15:44

       I mean, as far as the IPF, like...
7. 16:35 – 18:05

   Toast Machine

   1. JOJonny16:35

      toast and sandwich, like that's something that's reserved for, you know, if you're in a, somewhere that, that makes them. But I can have it at home. What, I mean, what... Think how boundless-

   2. CWChris Williamson16:44

      That's the joy of this. Okay.

   3. JOJonny16:45

      ... your fun can be.

   4. CWChris Williamson16:45

      So I want a couple of bits of info from you here.

   5. JOJonny16:48

      Okay.

   6. CWChris Williamson16:48

      I want the toastie machine that you use, and I want-

   7. JOJonny16:51

      Okay, so that is important.

   8. CWChris Williamson16:51

      I want your top two toastie recipes, including prep.

   9. JOJonny16:55

      Okay. So the first toastie machine I bought shorted the circuitry in the house.

   10. CWChris Williamson17:00

       Sounds like a good toastie.

   11. JOJonny17:01

       So-

   12. CWChris Williamson17:01

       I want that toastie.

   13. YUYusef17:02

       (laughs)

   14. JOJonny17:02

       Well, so the, so the, so the thing is, so you'll think, you'll look at the toastie machine lineup and they're always in like... 'cause they're not very common 'cause not many people have them.

   15. CWChris Williamson17:08

       Mm.

   16. JOJonny17:09

       They're always in the corner of the shop and there'll be like a 15 quid one-

   17. CWChris Williamson17:12

       Mm-hmm.

   18. JOJonny17:12

       ... a 30 quid one, and then like a 95 quid one. So you look at the 95 quid one and you think like, "It's just fucking toasted bread."

   19. CWChris Williamson17:19

       Yeah.

   20. JOJonny17:19

       Like it's hot bread with bits in.

   21. YUYusef17:21

       Did you get the 95 quid one?

   22. JOJonny17:22

       No, no, I got the, I got the cheapest one.

   23. YUYusef17:23

       Okay.

   24. JOJonny17:24

       You'd be proud of me.

   25. CWChris Williamson17:24

       Okay.

   26. JOJonny17:24

       I got, I got the cheapest one.

   27. CWChris Williamson17:26

       Yeah.

   28. YUYusef17:26

       The one that progressively-

   29. JOJonny17:26

       Shorted the house. (laughs)

   30. CWChris Williamson17:28

       What the fuck? You take it back.
8. 18:05 – 20:50

   What makes a toasty

   1. JOJonny18:05

      a toasty machine is the bread sticking to the hot plate. So you-

   2. YUYusef18:09

      Could you use oil spray in the surface of the...

   3. JOJonny18:11

      You could. You, you could buy it as nice-

   4. CWChris Williamson18:13

      Then you could have oily bread.

   5. YUYusef18:13

      Yeah.

   6. JOJonny18:14

      'Cause it, what makes the toasty-

   7. CWChris Williamson18:16

      Oh, I've just got a new one.

   8. JOJonny18:17

      ... like nice and, and browned and golden is, is the butter.

   9. YUYusef18:20

      Is... Ah, yeah.

   10. JOJonny18:21

       Um, fillings, I've found so far, actually, the more creative you are with this, it just comes back to bite you. Like, there is a reason why a ham and cheese toasty is so highly circulated.

   11. YUYusef18:33

       What were some failed fillings that you've tried?

   12. JOJonny18:35

       So don't add anything, like any sauce stuff at all.

   13. YUYusef18:39

       I imagine mayonnaise would be awful.

   14. JOJonny18:40

       Oh, 'cause it, it just goes, it like separates into its component parts, so...

   15. CWChris Williamson18:44

       (laughs) Egg in oil.

   16. JOJonny18:44

       Yeah. (laughs)

   17. CWChris Williamson18:45

       Is it like refining oil?

   18. YUYusef18:46

       (laughs)

   19. JOJonny18:46

       Yeah, it's minging. And like obviously no, like, tomato and things like that.

   20. CWChris Williamson18:50

       Tomato.

   21. YUYusef18:51

       Tomato.

   22. JOJonny18:51

       Because... So the other thing, eh, tomato, you've got to really clamp down on it. So you put the, you put the thing, you put the bread in-

   23. CWChris Williamson18:57

       Again, what is it? What's the solution? Push? Big push.

   24. JOJonny18:59

       Well, yeah. Well, a- actually, it's a pinch.

   25. CWChris Williamson19:02

       No, get on top of it and... (laughs)

   26. JOJonny19:03

       No, no. Well, you'll snap it. No, no, they're not... So you put the bread in-

   27. CWChris Williamson19:07

       Yeah.

   28. JOJonny19:07

       ... and you, you, you, you do the thing like what I do with most things that you think might require a bit of force but you don't want to break it. So you go like...

   29. CWChris Williamson19:14

       (laughs) Just feel it, your tension-

   30. JOJonny19:16

       Okay. (laughs)
9. 20:50 – 25:15

   Breville Sandwich Maker

   1. CWChris Williamson20:50

      toastie machine? 'Cause I'm gonna have to link this on Amazon.

   2. JOJonny20:51

      I think it's, I think it's Breville. See, from your description-

   3. CWChris Williamson20:55

      Yeah. Breville sandwich maker sounds like a legitimate...

   4. YUYusef20:57

      From your description, I don't know if I would buy that model.

   5. JOJonny21:01

      It's just too much of a jump.

   6. YUYusef21:02

      I'd be more for one with a buzz or a, a... like my egg boiler-

   7. JOJonny21:06

      No, it hasn't buzzed.

   8. YUYusef21:06

      ... shouts at me when it, when it's done.

   9. JOJonny21:08

      I think that's because that's quite important that it, but it does that though.

   10. YUYusef21:11

       I think no more than... 'Cause nothing can go on fire, it just-

   11. JOJonny21:14

       It just ruins the egg. Like, if, if you, if you toast a toastie slightly too long, you get a bit, you, the, the bread's a bit browned.

   12. CWChris Williamson21:20

       Mm-hmm.

   13. YUYusef21:20

       But wouldn't... But if you left it for ages, wouldn't the bread go on fire eventually?

   14. JOJonny21:23

       Oh, you're a twat if you leave it for ages. That's like if you, if you leave the oven on for too long.

   15. YUYusef21:26

       Well, that's true.

   16. JOJonny21:27

       There's no, there's no alarm on the oven. But, so I... Like, they're brilliant. They're really cheap and i- if you are, like, looking for something to have, like if you'll have sandwiches in the house, just have toasties for God's sake, like-

   17. CWChris Williamson21:38

       It's a good point, man. I had, last week I had a refeed day and I was walking through ASDA.

   18. JOJonny21:43

       (laughs)

   19. CWChris Williamson21:44

       Looked, looked, but I-

   20. YUYusef21:44

       Bought a birthday cake?

   21. CWChris Williamson21:45

       ... and saw... Didn't buy a birthday cake.

   22. JOJonny21:46

       You always have birthday cake, don't you?

   23. CWChris Williamson21:48

       No, not a birthday cake.

   24. YUYusef21:49

       (laughs)

   25. CWChris Williamson21:49

       Um, and saw some extra large crumpets.

   26. JOJonny21:53

       Ooh.

   27. CWChris Williamson21:54

       Mate, I love a good crumpet.

   28. YUYusef21:55

       How, how big?

   29. CWChris Williamson21:56

       Like...

   30. JOJonny21:56

       They're like, they're like this, aren't they?
10. 25:15 – 27:35

    Share Auto

    1. JOJonny25:15

       something. Yeah.

    2. CWChris Williamson25:15

       Okay. Just make ... and then just make a new email?

    3. JOJonny25:17

       Yeah.

    4. CWChris Williamson25:18

       That's awesome. That's a fucking really good one.

    5. JOJonny25:20

       It's a good service.

    6. CWChris Williamson25:21

       Right. Uh, ooh, right. Oh well, this one, this one's a fucking game changer if you don't know about it. Um, share ... auto-share your Instagram story to your Facebook story. This is the most free gains that I'm ever gonna give you on life hacks, right? It's ... the equivalent free gains is wearing knee sleeves to squat.

    7. JOJonny25:43

       Getting a belt.

    8. CWChris Williamson25:44

       Um, so-

    9. JOJonny25:44

       Get any belt.

    10. CWChris Williamson25:45

        If you are on your phone, if you don't know what I'm talking about, go on your phone, go onto Instagram, swipe, uh, right so that you open up your Instagram story. Little button at the bottom that is, uh, story settings, setting story settings, and then scroll right to the bottom and there's just a little nonchalant toggle that says share story to Facebook. That allows you to automatically share whatever you put on your Instagram story on your Facebook story. And no one, no one actually looks after their Facebook story, because who gives a fuck about Facebook stories?

    11. JOJonny26:20

        (laughs)

    12. CWChris Williamson26:20

        However, I have about 15,000 followers b- between friends and followers on mine, and I'm getting just over 1,000 views on Facebook.

    13. YUYusef26:31

        'Cause Facebook are desperate for the Open race, so-

    14. CWChris Williamson26:33

        They need it, yeah, so they're drive, they're driving it really hard. And it'll auto pull through polls. So if you put a poll on Instagram, it'll-

    15. JOJonny26:42

        It's on Facebook.

    16. CWChris Williamson26:42

        It, it bring the, um, ability across. One thing it doesn't do, which is slightly frustrating, especially for what a lot of people in marketing will do, is it doesn't transfer across swipe ups because you can't swipe up on Facebook to go to a link, which is a little bit annoying. So a lot of the time I'll be like, "Here's my new podcast," or whatever.

    17. JOJonny26:56

        Is it like clickable or-

    18. CWChris Williamson26:57

        No.

    19. JOJonny26:57

        ... or is it just-

    20. CWChris Williamson26:58

        Just doesn't exist. It literally just got this thing at the bottom.

    21. JOJonny27:00

        That's stupid.

    22. CWChris Williamson27:01

        Yeah, bit irritating. But some of the stuff works, like some of the polls work and some of the questions work and things. But it is the freest gains you're ever gonna get, and you can share if you've, if you're on a business account, maybe if you're on a personal, but I doubt it. If you're on a business account, you can share it to a fan page. So our lads that are looking after our club nights, they'll be going around taking Instagram stories and stuff like that. But our fan pages are massive, all club night fan pages are massive 'cause it's where the albums get uploaded too. And we're finding that we're matching our Facebook, uh, Instagram reach on Facebook, um, just through the stories. And it ... you're already doing it.

11. 27:35 – 33:35

    Strap Yourself

    1. CWChris Williamson27:35

       You're already recording the content, and you ... once you've pressed that button once, free gains, man. A game changer. Game changer. Johnny.

    2. JOJonny27:45

       So I have one that is ... that will upset people. So I'm going to do this one initially, then I'll do a proper one.

    3. YUYusef27:51

       Who's it gonna upset? Us, or the listeners?

    4. JOJonny27:52

       I think so ... it's a shit thing to do. It's a shit thing to do. And it ... I think it'll upset people, especially people who care about the environment.

    5. CWChris Williamson27:59

       Okay. Okay. Here we go.

    6. YUYusef28:02

       (laughs)

    7. JOJonny28:02

       (laughs) Jesus. So-

    8. CWChris Williamson28:04

       Strap yourself in ladies and gentlemen.

    9. JOJonny28:05

       ... this, this works. I've tested that it works. I, I, I ob- I've observed it happen.

    10. CWChris Williamson28:09

        Punch a cat.

    11. JOJonny28:10

        No, not punch a cat.

    12. CWChris Williamson28:12

        (laughs)

    13. JOJonny28:12

        Strangle a dolphin. No.

    14. CWChris Williamson28:13

        (laughs)

    15. JOJonny28:14

        Uh, put your thumb in a dolphin's blowhole. No.

    16. CWChris Williamson28:17

        (laughs)

    17. JOJonny28:17

        Um, so-

    18. CWChris Williamson28:18

        I bet there's ... I bet they've got sufficient room. I bet your thumb doesn't have enough girth to get in a blowhole. I bet it rattles.

    19. JOJonny28:22

        You'd probably need to ...

    20. CWChris Williamson28:24

        Imagine if you just-

    21. YUYusef28:25

        It would also be really hard to strangle one.

    22. JOJonny28:26

        Yeah, although I feel like it could probably *******.

    23. YUYusef28:28

        If you, like try to blow up a hot water bottle and if you, if you let, if you let go for a minute, it blows up, yeah.

    24. JOJonny28:35

        Hot water? (laughs)

    25. YUYusef28:35

        Well-

    26. CWChris Williamson28:35

        Really? (laughs) Oh God.

    27. JOJonny28:36

        I'm gonna have to brace that.

    28. CWChris Williamson28:37

        (laughs) Oh, shit. I don't ... I've, I've never thought of that before.

    29. YUYusef28:39

        'Cause there's so, so much resistance in them, like-

    30. JOJonny28:41

        Yeah.
12. 33:35 – 36:05

    Shortcuts

    1. YUYusef33:35

    2. JOJonny33:35

       (laughs) Wow.

    3. CWChris Williamson33:39

       Apologies to Yusuf's girlfriend.

    4. JOJonny33:40

       Fucking hell.

    5. YUYusef33:42

       (laughs)

    6. JOJonny33:42

       Go on then.

    7. YUYusef33:43

       So you go to Shortcuts, which used to be a third-party app that's now been acquired by Apple. And it is an iPhone-

    8. CWChris Williamson33:50

       Oh, so it's in your settings.

    9. YUYusef33:51

       So it, it, you, you download it from the App Store, but Apple have made it, and in the next iOS it's gonna be-

    10. CWChris Williamson33:56

        Shortcuts.

    11. YUYusef33:57

        Shortcuts. It's gonna be the new, um, like-

    12. CWChris Williamson34:00

        Bit.

    13. YUYusef34:00

        It's gonna be, yeah, like, uh, one of the native bits of apps. And it's a, it's an automation service for iPhone. What it allows you to do is ... I'll give you a few examples of things that it can do.

    14. JOJonny34:14

        So all of the texts that I've sent Johnny over the past-

    15. YUYusef34:16

        (laughs) I wrote in 2006.

    16. JOJonny34:18

        (laughs)

    17. CWChris Williamson34:18

        The problem is, the problem is obviously having to respond because the only way that you can respond by scheduling is predicting the question.

    18. JOJonny34:25

        Yeah.

    19. YUYusef34:25

        Well, that's, that's, that's why you have to ... All the texts are just, "Hmm, that's nice or that's interesting. I also think that."

    20. JOJonny34:31

        Oh, God. This is get-

    21. YUYusef34:32

        (laughs)

    22. JOJonny34:32

        We're getting really down to it.

    23. YUYusef34:34

        And then you've still got all the threads.

    24. CWChris Williamson34:34

        Is this like, is this like a chat bot, but just for you?

    25. YUYusef34:37

        Just, yeah. You've just gotta make your own chat bot.

    26. JOJonny34:38

        But it's not actually a chat bot, it's just messages that Yusuf's typing.

    27. CWChris Williamson34:42

        Yeah. It's-

    28. YUYusef34:42

        So Short- Shortcuts, other things that it can do, um, it can resume the latest book that you were listening to at-

    29. JOJonny34:49

        No one cares about that.

    30. YUYusef34:50

        ... this thing.
13. 36:05 – 39:45

    Stock Photos

    1. CWChris Williamson36:05

       So Unsplash.com.

    2. YUYusef36:07

       Oh.

    3. CWChris Williamson36:07

       Is it unsplash.com?

    4. YUYusef36:08

       Oh, unsplash.

    5. CWChris Williamson36:08

       Yeah. Unsplash.com. So-

    6. YUYusef36:10

       Unsplash. Like, like Pexels and Pixabay and stuff.

    7. JOJonny36:12

       Is it really?

    8. CWChris Williamson36:12

       So everybody-

    9. YUYusef36:14

       Probably propaganda, yeah.

    10. CWChris Williamson36:15

        Everybody wants to use-

    11. YUYusef36:17

        Things aggregator.

    12. CWChris Williamson36:18

        ... something. (laughs)

    13. YUYusef36:18

        (laughs)

    14. CWChris Williamson36:20

        Everybody wants nice stock photos that they can use, whether it's for marketing or just for a cover photo for some event that you're making on Facebook or whatever it is. Unsplash.com is, without a doubt, the best place to find well-curated stock photos. So a lot of photographers across the internet have taken mint photos of random stuff, whether it be, uh, meditating, or a- a photo of the spine, or a cool photo of coffee, or anything. Unsplash.com, search whatever it is that you're looking for. I guarantee, they're a bit hipster-y, some of the photos, they are a little bit, but they're, th- they, they over-deliver on cool and edginess, which for a stock photo probably brings it to about normality.

    15. YUYusef37:02

        Yeah, most stock photos are so clinical-looking.

    16. CWChris Williamson37:04

        Yes, exactly.

    17. JOJonny37:05

        Chris, these are brilliant. Are these free?

    18. CWChris Williamson37:07

        Yes. All of them, royalty-free.

    19. YUYusef37:09

        Great. Have at it.

    20. JOJonny37:11

        This is ... I ... So, so Pexels, have we spoken about that one before?

    21. CWChris Williamson37:16

        Nope.

    22. JOJonny37:17

        Have you heard of Pexels, VMD?

    23. YUYusef37:19

        So being the, even though it's-

    24. JOJonny37:21

        So Pexels is what I've always used. It's very similar to this, like the formatting and everything's very similar.

    25. CWChris Williamson37:25

        Mm-hmm. Search meditation.

    26. JOJonny37:26

        Even has, even has the sa- some of the same photos.

    27. CWChris Williamson37:28

        Search meditation or productivity.

    28. JOJonny37:30

        I've searched gym.

    29. CWChris Williamson37:31

        Gym? Oh, just insane mint photos of like cool shit.

    30. JOJonny37:34

        He's a big blonde-haired man.
14. 39:45 – 42:53

    To Do List

    1. JOJonny39:45

       pick. Okay, I'll do this one. So, um, you may have heard the, you know you like, everyone has a to-do list, to do list, right? So everyone has like, somewhere, like a bi- bit of paper, or in an app, whatever. And you have the problem where you sit down and you're like, "What am I gonna do? Like, how do I pick from this?" So, some people say, "Pick one thing to do per day." Some people say, "Have three important tasks to do." But the natural reaction to that is like, "Oh yeah, but I need to go and, like, take this thing back to the shop," or, or whatever. So, a lot of things get missed from that framework. So, the, the one that, something that I've, I read about a long time ago, used it when I was working as an accountant, actually quite a bit, but started using again recently, is 5-3-1. This is not the strength training program. (laughs)

    2. YUYusef40:30

       (laughs)

    3. JOJonny40:30

       5-3-1 for productivity search.

    4. CWChris Williamson40:32

       Bench.

    5. JOJonny40:32

       Squat, bench, and deadlift.

    6. CWChris Williamson40:33

       Mm-hmm.

    7. JOJonny40:34

       That's it. Uh, you have one key task, the most important thing for that day, which would be, um, if that's all you got done, so a successful day. You then have three medium importance of, you know, the next three things that would be on your priority list. And then you do five admin level bullshit tasks.

    8. CWChris Williamson40:50

       How do you segment them out?

    9. JOJonny40:51

       What do you mean?

    10. CWChris Williamson40:52

        So how do you choose what falls into, because m- some tasks may f- be able to be categorized into-

    11. JOJonny40:59

        I see. Well, so admin stuff is like stuff that you probably wouldn't even normally put on your to-do list. Like really low level things, but sometimes also things that like you would just let slide, because they're not, they're not that important, but still matter when they add up. So trying to think of examples. Like make a phone, like someone you need to call, something you need to take back, an errand you need to run.

    12. CWChris Williamson41:19

        Mm-hmm.

    13. JOJonny41:19

        Just that sort of stuff. Most important thing is like the thing of the most impact. So if you-

    14. CWChris Williamson41:24

        Does that happen first?

    15. JOJonny41:25

        Ideally, you would do that thing first.

    16. CWChris Williamson41:27

        Yeah.

    17. JOJonny41:27

        So like, if you're a, involved in business, or, or whatever, you run your own business, something that impacts your revenue or moves your business forward, if you're an employee it's like the thing that you're gonna, might lose your job if you don't do. And then three things after that would just be the next three things on your list. So, so I found that to be a nice balance between like firstly, if you, you tick off all the five things, you still feel like getting it, like smashing it.

    18. CWChris Williamson41:51

        Mm-hmm.

    19. JOJonny41:52

        Even though they're not important. And by the end of the work week, you've done 25 admin level tasks probably.

    20. YUYusef41:58

        Probably in a natural ratio of those kind of-

    21. JOJonny42:01

        In moments as well.

    22. YUYusef42:02

        ... tasks as well, isn't it?

    23. CWChris Williamson42:02

        Nice. I like it. Is there a, um, blog or like a, a little-

    24. JOJonny42:07

        If you search like 5-3-1 productivity method.

    25. CWChris Williamson42:10

        5-3-1 productivity method.

    26. JOJonny42:10

        And the best app I've found to use this on-

    27. CWChris Williamson42:13

        Big Lifts 2.

    28. JOJonny42:15

        Big Lifts 2. No, so (laughs) ...

    29. CWChris Williamson42:19

        (laughs)

    30. JOJonny42:20

        ... involves strangling a, no, um, Todoist. So, I know you don't like to do that. I know you like Things and all that sort of stuff. But Todoist allows you to, um, color code or categorize your tasks, um, blue, red, or yellow. So, blue is my, are my admin tasks-
15. 42:53 – 47:22

    Smart Capture

    1. YUYusef42:54

       ... re- rela- pretty related to what Johnny's just said about Todoist. Um, I use Wunderlist, but both apps have this feature, which is, uh, a quick capture hotkey. So-

    2. JOJonny43:04

       So does Things.

    3. YUYusef43:05

       So does Thing- oh, great. Okay, so all three, whether you're a Todoist, Wunderlist, or Things user, they all have this feature. And I know my life hacks have been very techy today, but, um, there'll be a keyboard shortcut. For Wunderlist, it's command, shift, W. Comes up with a bar. You type in the, um, task that you need to do, and I think with Todoist has the best version of this, where if you put, like, a symbol of at or hashtag or whatever, you can then allocate it to a certain list-

    4. JOJonny43:32

       Mm-hmm.

    5. YUYusef43:32

       ... and you can tag it as high, medium, or low priority, and then it's just in your system. So, you don't have to open up the app or anything. You can just be in the middle of something and be like, "Oh, I need to do that thing." Okay, so ... tag urgent in folder work.

    6. JOJonny43:45

       Can you smart schedule with yours?

    7. CWChris Williamson43:48

       Yes, yeah.

    8. JOJonny43:48

       So, like, if I, here say, um-

    9. CWChris Williamson43:50

       If I control and, uh ... (keyboard tapping) Oh. This is because I haven't logged in.

    10. JOJonny43:54

        See, it's great. Boom.

    11. CWChris Williamson43:55

        So, I haven't logged into Things on my new laptop.

    12. JOJonny43:58

        On the new laptop. So, I think command T is Todoist, pretty sure. So, command T, and then it'd be like, um, "Log into Unsplash every Monday, Wednesday, Friday."

    13. CWChris Williamson44:09

        Yeah.

    14. YUYusef44:10

        And it, it picked up the natural language.

    15. JOJonny44:11

        And it says there-

    16. CWChris Williamson44:11

        Oh, so natural, natural language.

    17. JOJonny44:13

        ... set to European.

    18. CWChris Williamson44:13

        So, Tiago Forte, if you're interested in this sort of stuff, if this is kind of really getting your juices flowing, the episode-

    19. JOJonny44:18

        Mine are flowing hard.

    20. CWChris Williamson44:19

        Yeah. That's Unsplash though, for you.

    21. JOJonny44:21

        (laughs)

    22. CWChris Williamson44:21

        Um, the episode that I did with Tiago Forte is the fucking bible on this. Like, he is just a monster.

    23. JOJonny44:28

        He knows quite a bit about it, doesn't he?

    24. CWChris Williamson44:29

        He really does, yeah. But a frictionless capture for to-do lists, I think is the, uh, using a smart capture, one thing that Things has is called Things Helper, um, which is where it uses a smart capture. So, let's say that you're on an email-

    25. JOJonny44:43

        (clears throat)

    26. CWChris Williamson44:44

        ... um, and you use, mine is control and space to open up the capture, but control, option, space pulls in the title of the page that you're on on a website, and then puts the URL into the description. So, let's say that you need to reply to an email. You just-

    27. JOJonny45:03

        So is it whichever's the app, whe- whichever app is at the front?

    28. CWChris Williamson45:05

        Yes. And it'll just pull that through. But typically, it's used for websites.

    29. JOJonny45:09

        Right.

    30. CWChris Williamson45:09

        So, it'll just pull that in and it'll title it with the thing at the top, which you can change the name of the page, and then it'll pull in the URL.
16. 47:22 – 51:00

    Count Every Beat

    1. CWChris Williamson47:22

       in the gym, and you're doing some isometric holds, let's say that you're holding a plank, or you need to be ho- you're holding a stretch and you need to know how long, let's say you're holding it for 30 seconds. You're listening to house music, almost all house music is written at between about 124 and 128 beats per minute, which means that every high hat hit or every other beat is about a second. So, if you're listening to music, you don't need to look at the clock. Just count every other beat and that's going to count you in seconds.

    2. JOJonny47:50

       Can you play us an example?

    3. CWChris Williamson47:52

       Uh, yeah. Sure. So ... Has to be less than seven seconds for the YouTube- This is gonna pull us, in fact, this is gonna pull us on YouTube. All right.

    4. JOJonny47:59

       We'll not do that.

    5. CWChris Williamson48:00

       So, um, but yeah, every other-

    6. JOJonny48:03

       Knowledge.

    7. CWChris Williamson48:03

       ... every other beat, every other beat is one second, almost exactly. Um, and by using that as a cadence for doing whatever, isometric holds, stretches, um, anything.

    8. JOJonny48:15

       Okay.

    9. CWChris Williamson48:15

       There you go. So, headphones are in.

    10. JOJonny48:16

        Best under time.

    11. CWChris Williamson48:17

        Don't need to look in. There you go.

    12. JOJonny48:18

        Excellent. Excellent. Johnny.

    13. CWChris Williamson48:22

        Um, so this one is actually influenced by-

    14. JOJonny48:25

        ... listening to your podcast with James Clear and then re-reviewing my notes on Atomic Habits.

    15. Nice.

    16. Um, but I think the mistake that people make with building habits and behaviors is they make it too general. So, they'll say, "I'm gonna practice, I'm gonna build a habit of meditating every day," for example. And what happens is, you will, for a week, meditate in the morning and then something will happen, something will happen. You're like, "Oh, I'll do it later. I'll do it later." And then before you know it, you've lost your streak completely of meditating.

    17. Mm-hmm.

    18. So instead, what I've tried to focus doing is you drill and build the ... what is almost like the, the lead indicator of that habit being completed.

    19. Mm-hmm.

    20. So, like, I will meditate in the morning after making a coffee or, or whatever.

    21. Mm-hmm.

    22. Um, but the biggest one for me was, the biggest change for me was s- trying to achieve a calorie deficit, right? Something that we help a lot of people do.

    23. Mm-hmm.

    24. But saying, "I'm gonna track my macros for 12 weeks, or I'm gonna lose weight." Like, the biggest, for me, the biggest lead indicator of me hitting my macros and therefore being in a calorie deficit across the week is, after I meditate in the morning, I sit and just plan in MyFitnessPal what I'm going to eat that day, probably.

    25. Mm-hmm.

    26. So, I track my macros in the morning at the start of the day. And all that means is, so it's a, it's your best estimate, right? Like, obviously things change.

    27. Yep.

    28. But all that means is that when you deviate from what you tracked, you immediately think, "Oh, well, I need, I need to-"

    29. You got to go back and change my fitness pal.

    30. "Well, well, no, I need to adjust something later than that, later th- later in the day."
17. 51:00 – 52:40

    James Haskells Cookbook

    1. JOJonny51:00

       yeah.

    2. So, this was a present I got recently. James Haskell's cookbook, right, has bar codes on the recipe pages that scan immediately into MyFitnessPal.

    3. YUYusef51:11

       Oh, that's great.

    4. JOJonny51:12

       'Cause it has listed macros.

    5. YUYusef51:13

       That's gonna become standard practice, I imagine.

    6. JOJonny51:15

       Oh, well, yeah. But do you, could you have any idea how f-

    7. YUYusef51:17

       MyFitnessPal looking so big on there.

    8. JOJonny51:18

       ... how few recipe books have the macros?

    9. Yeah.

    10. Unbelievable.

    11. YUYusef51:21

        When you're trying to put in, like, a third of a cup of flour.

    12. JOJonny51:24

        Yeah, I know, it's still quiet at the bottom.

    13. That's the thing, you're not even putting the end result in. You're putting in like what are the raw fucking-

    14. You know, but it takes ages.

    15. Yeah.

    16. Yeah.

    17. Raw materials. See, that's great. Who's James Haskell? Just a guy.

    18. He's a rugby player, right? Former, I think former England rugby player. I don't think he plays anymore. Big, big dude.

    19. YUYusef51:38

        It's the standard, um, route, the career route that any ex-celebrity does now, isn't it? Like, a cookbook.

    20. JOJonny51:43

        Brenda Tree.

    21. Just cooking, yeah.

    22. Cookbook.

    23. YUYusef51:45

        It's-

    24. JOJonny51:46

        Daytime TV.

    25. Yeah.

    26. I was on BBC Radio Ulster today. That's-

    27. Well, several weeks ago.

    28. Yeah, it'll be several weeks ago in podcast land, won't it?

    29. BBC Radio Ulster.

    30. YUYusef51:56

        Oh, this is-
18. 52:40 – 55:02

    Screen mirroring

    1. YUYusef52:40

       So, managed to find one on Amazon. I, I had to buy three cables 'cause the first two I bought were male to male, and then I bought like, uh, uh, a USB thinking it had a US- so, so that, that was my stupidity. But eventually got the correct cable, and it's just instantaneous. There's no delay between thingies. The quality is perfect. It's just like an extension of your screen. And all year I've, when you have document on one side and something you're typing on the other, for example, or something to reference and something to do-

    2. JOJonny53:08

       Mm-hmm.

    3. YUYusef53:09

       ... it's just been fantastic. And then if you, if you don't, if you're not doing a task like that, having your to-do list maximized on that side-

    4. JOJonny53:15

       Yes, reminder.

    5. YUYusef53:16

       ... is beautiful.

    6. JOJonny53:16

       Do you ever just maximize be focus pro?

    7. YUYusef53:19

       Yeah, so that's, that's so big. (laughs)

    8. JOJonny53:22

       (laughs)

    9. You counter with a single task at the top.

    10. YUYusef53:24

        It's brilliant 'cause it's like, "Right, you're gonna do this task."

    11. JOJonny53:26

        Bloodline's fucking terrible. You can set them, can't you? Order them? So you can have like, you can drag something from there to there. Seriously.

    12. YUYusef53:32

        So, I use BetterTouchTool for expanding the shortcuts and things on Mac, which I highly recommend. It's like 10 quid for like, for three years license, I think.

    13. JOJonny53:42

        Mm-hmm.

    14. YUYusef53:42

        And I've got a shortcut where I swipe left from the edge of the trackpad, and it takes the window that's at the front most thing and maximizes it to the next display.

    15. JOJonny53:50

        So, you like, throw it?

    16. YUYusef53:51

        You throw it, but it makes it bigger as well.

    17. JOJonny53:52

        So if you've got three displays including your MacBook.

    18. YUYusef53:54

        So, the other display is, uh, what you can use is any iPad or iPhone-

    19. JOJonny53:59

        Yeah.

    20. YUYusef54:00

        ... using an app called Duet. Now again, (laughs) the new version-

    21. JOJonny54:03

        Been there. Have you been there?

    22. YUYusef54:04

        ... of iO- Well, th- this is made by ma- by Apple developers.

    23. JOJonny54:06

        Is AirPlay mirroring and screen mirroring not a thing?

    24. YUYusef54:09

        You can do that as well, but you have to have the, the device that you're mirroring to has to be capable of that.

    25. JOJonny54:14

        Great.

    26. YUYusef54:15

        This is just a, a TV.

    27. JOJonny54:16

        And that's only mir- mirroring?

    28. Right, right.

    29. So it's not, it's not an extension.

    30. Display, extra display. Right, yeah.
19. 55:02 – 1:08:22

    Standing desk

    1. YUYusef55:02

       (laughs)

    2. CWChris Williamson55:02

       Oh my God.

    3. YUYusef55:04

       To, like, sickening speeds.

    4. CWChris Williamson55:05

       So I sent a screenshot.

    5. YUYusef55:06

       (laughs)

    6. CWChris Williamson55:06

       I sent, I sent a screenshot of, um, increased trackpad sensitivity, and then in brackets after it, it says, "Goes past current," like, "Apple settings." I sent the screenshot to Darren. Darren said, "I want it immediately."

    7. YUYusef55:17

       (laughs) Yeah. Did I send you that?

    8. CWChris Williamson55:18

       Yeah.

    9. YUYusef55:18

       Yeah.

    10. CWChris Williamson55:20

        You can also, on that theme, this is for VMD.

    11. YUYusef55:23

        Uh-huh.

    12. CWChris Williamson55:23

        You can use an iMac as an external display for a MacBook.

    13. YUYusef55:27

        Mm-hmm.

    14. CWChris Williamson55:28

        Why would you not just-

    15. YUYusef55:29

        Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt.

    16. CWChris Williamson55:30

        Oh, nice.

    17. YUYusef55:31

        Just in case you want to.

    18. CWChris Williamson55:32

        So, um, extending from your life hack there, Yusuf, is convert to a standing desk. Like, um, I got in touch with the guys who make the chair that Joe Rogan has, which is called the Fully Capisco chair, and they also make the world's best standing desk, which is-

    19. YUYusef55:50

        It's a nice chair. Mm-hmm.

    20. CWChris Williamson55:52

        Yeah, it's very comfortable. It's a lot more like a saddle. You need to just... So if you're listening, go and google Fully Capisco, C-A-P-I-S-C-O D-I-N-G-O, um, (laughs) and have a little look at it. It, it looks like the maddest thing ever, but it is ridiculously comfortable. It's a standing desk stool that you can use from just above typical seating height to all the way above higher than you are when you're standing. Um, and the desk also is on actuators, and with the touch of a button, you can go from seating to standing. You have preset memory buttons on it as well. You press the button and it just rises up. Now, it isn't cheap. That's the issue. But if you are working, especially if this is gonna be the thing that you're gonna sit at for the rest of your life, by the time that this is out ... Oh, in fact, Stuart McGill went out today. So you'll have heard the world's leading back pain specialist say that move well and move often is the best heuristic to use for reducing back pain. If you're a knowledge worker, if you work at a desk, you will have some degree of back discomfort. Everyone does. So moving from seating to standing as seamlessly as you can ... For me, I explained this to you the other day, Seth, when I'm doing Pomodoros now, I do two Pomodoros standing, one Pomodoro seating, just, and as my alarm goes off, and if I need to change, just press a button. (snaps fingers) Press a button and I'll move, and that's it. And standing all day, to, to seating, to standing, moving around is making me feel ... Another thing as well, I'm so much more energized when I stand up.

    21. YUYusef57:25

        Mm-hmm.

    22. CWChris Williamson57:26

        Doing a podcast standing up, I'm able to use my hands, talk to, et cetera, et cetera.

    23. YUYusef57:31

        (laughs) We should do a life hack, all three of us standing up one day.

    24. CWChris Williamson57:34

        We'll do a full podcast.

    25. YUYusef57:35

        So you know-

    26. CWChris Williamson57:35

        You know Barbell Shrugged?

    27. YUYusef57:37

        Oh yeah, it is, isn't it?

    28. CWChris Williamson57:38

        Barbell Shrugged, they do all their podcasts.

    29. YUYusef57:40

        They do it in their room.

    30. CWChris Williamson57:40

        No, they go around the country.

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