The End Of The World, CrossFit & Pirates Of The Caribbean | Catch Up 103
Chris Williamson (host), Jonny (guest), Yusef (guest), Jonny (guest), Jonny (guest), Yusef (guest), Yusef (guest), Jonny (guest), Yusef (guest), Jonny (guest), Yusef (guest)
In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Chris Williamson and Jonny, The End Of The World, CrossFit & Pirates Of The Caribbean | Catch Up 103 explores crossFit Conversions, American Adventures, and Joking About the Apocalypse 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.
CrossFit Conversions, American Adventures, and Joking About the Apocalypse
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.
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.
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.
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.
Key Takeaways
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tipping culture shifts labor costs onto the customer via social pressure.
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Pervasive tech and bio-tools carry asymmetric existential risks.
Their discussion of drones, CRISPR, and ‘slaughterbot’-style scenarios underscores how small, cheap technologies—autonomous weapons or synthetic plagues—could enable catastrophic harm with very few actors involved.
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Notable 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)
Questions Answered in This Episode
How much should we realistically change our lifestyle based on biomarker and longevity testing like InsideTracker?
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.
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Would you trust a fully autonomous car or surgical robot over a human if the published safety statistics were dramatically better?
Chris recounts trips to the U. ...
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Is the convenience of pervasive data collection and wearables worth the long‑term privacy trade-offs they discussed?
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.
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To what extent do you think tipping culture improves service versus simply masking employers’ responsibility to pay fair wages?
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.
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If traditional training (like powerlifting) stops being fun, how do you decide whether to pivot to something like CrossFit or fix your mindset instead?
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Transcript Preview
Catch up 103. Come round so fast, don't they?
You'd think we'd have caught up by now, wouldn't you?
I went to America.
Twice.
As far as I'm concerned.
You were, you were on a podcast with Elon Musk.
I shared some oxygen with Elon Musk, yeah.
Right. (laughs) You're trying to tell a story. (laughs)
We're trying to get through this podcast, wrecking it. Absolutely destroying it.
The listeners who've tuned in not to hear you two-
You did yoga.
Just say silly things.
It's our, this is our only purpose on the podcast, to just derail your story.
We've got nothing interesting to say.
Do you know what it is as well? Like, people can say that they think that Americans are too positive or like, over the top, which is probably, probably a little bit fair, but in my experience, Americans are so much more polite than the Brits.
The whole Marvel shit, and this is going to offend a lot of people, but I really struggle with it.
Careful, careful. BMB's gonna-
Yeah.
Have you seen any of them?
Yeah.
Which ones?
There's a guy with a big glove. Big bloke, big glove.
Is it called Big Fist?
And like little midget gems that he has to put in the glove. And when he puts the midget gems in the glove-
(laughs)
... (laughs) he, uh, he kills those people.
Hang on.
Are you serious?
Yeah.
Sorry.
Stop the podcast.
(laughs)
We need to h- we need to halt here. Think we need to-
What?
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. I'm joined by Johnny and Yousaf from propanefitness.com. Catch up 103. Come round so fast, don't they?
You'd think we'd have caught up by now, wouldn't you?
Well, the problem is that we're a conveyor belt of catching, aren't we?
Things constantly happen that we need to catch.
E- exactly. Faster than we can actually get them out.
(laughs)
But the map is not the territory, because if we were catching up at the exact pace that they were coming in, we would just be live broadcasting all of our lives.
We'd just be current.
Yeah, we would.
We would be streamers.
And we're constantly behind as well. We would be streamers.
I have a microphone in, on my desk, and these kids walked past the other day and went, "Oh, are you a streamer?"
(laughs)
And, and I, that was the moment I knew that I'm out of touch with the youth of these days.
(laughs)
I was like, uh, kind of, but not-
Actually, what I do are webinars. They're very similar.
Webinar.
Webinar, but they're crucially different. Uh, do you need your ad set optimizing?
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