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The End Of The World, CrossFit & Pirates Of The Caribbean | Catch Up 103

Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me again as we continue our Catch Up series. No agenda, no specific topics for us to cover, just us talking about what we've been watching, reading & experiencing in our lives. This week we're talking about my trips to America, the new Pirates Of The Caribbean film, how we think the world will end, Jonny starting CrossFit, Netflix's Our Planet and lots more. Extra Stuff: Naval on The After On Podcast with Rob Reid: https://after-on.com/episodes-31-60/044 Check out everything I recommend - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom Check out Propane's Website - https://propanefitness.com/ - Video & production by Dean Hindmarch https://www.deanhindmarch.com/ https://www.instagram.com/deanhindmarch - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - I want to hear from you!! Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

Chris WilliamsonhostJonnyguestYusefguest
May 12, 20191h 15mWatch on YouTube ↗

At a glance

WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

CrossFit Conversions, American Adventures, and Joking About the Apocalypse

  1. Chris Williamson and his co-hosts Johnny and Yousaf have a loosely structured, comedic catch-up covering recent travels, injuries, and life changes, with constant derailments and tangents.
  2. Chris recounts trips to the U.S. for ROMWOD filming, LA scooter culture, Universal Studios, InsideTracker blood testing, and interviewing longevity scientist David Sinclair, while reflecting on American politeness and tipping culture.
  3. Johnny discusses retiring from powerlifting after a quad injury and nervously transitioning into CrossFit, while Yousaf shares the stress of finishing medical school and riffs on medicine, surgery, and physiology.
  4. The conversation repeatedly spins out into bits on Marvel movies, Pirates of the Caribbean, drones, plagues, surveillance, nature documentaries, and the end of the world in a very irreverent, mate-down-the-pub style.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Switch training styles when your current approach stops being enjoyable.

Johnny’s loss of enthusiasm for powerlifting and long-running injury push him toward CrossFit; they frame this as a rational shift to keep training fun and sustainable rather than clinging to a stale identity.

Experiential fitness concepts can thrive by remixing traditions.

Chris describes a massive California yoga studio that blends live DJ-ing, club-style energy, and Yin-based classes, showing how reimagining a familiar practice can create a commercially powerful and engaging experience.

Urban micro‑mobility works when it’s cheap, dense, and effortless.

LA’s Bird/Lime-style scooters are ubiquitous, app-unlocked, and extremely affordable, making them an ideal way to traverse Venice–Santa Monica and illustrating why similar schemes struggle in colder, wetter cities.

Objective health data can reveal hidden lifestyle issues.

Chris’s InsideTracker blood work showed high lipids and glucose and low free testosterone despite heavy training, prompting dietary changes like more soluble fiber and highlighting how biomarkers can expose blind spots.

People will resist safer automation if it feels uncontrollable.

They note that many would prefer to risk death by their own driving (or a human surgeon) over a statistically safer autonomous car or robot surgeon, because psychological comfort often beats raw risk calculations.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

Even the fucking thugs here are super polite.

— Chris Williamson (on Americans in LA)

My biggest thing is that I’ve stopped enjoying training.

— Johnny (on leaving powerlifting for CrossFit)

Facebook having your data is fine until you have something to hide.

— Paraphrased by Chris, summarizing their surveillance concerns

If the world’s ending and you get a text saying ‘game over,’ you just shut your laptop and go, ‘Well, I did my best.’

— Yousaf

They’ve created a culture of not having to pay your staff.

— Yousaf (on U.S. tipping practices)

Chris’s U.S. trips: ROMWOD filming, LA scooter rentals, and Universal StudiosJohnny’s injury, end of powerlifting focus, and move toward CrossFitYousaf’s final weeks of medical school and medical/physio tangentsLongevity, InsideTracker blood tests, and David Sinclair’s workTechnology, drones, surveillance, synthetic biology and existential riskAmerican vs British culture: positivity, politeness, and tipping normsPop culture riffs: Marvel fatigue, Pirates of the Caribbean, David Attenborough and nature docs

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