1.5M Q&A - Daily Routine, Joe Dispenza & Online Negativity

What's happening, people? Welcome back to the show. It is a 1.5 million subscriber Q&A episode. It's been a while since I did one of these. It's been a busy few months, so I apologize for the absence. But we got thousands and thousands of questions. I've tried to compile them. There were a lot that were kind of similar, so I've tried to put a bunch together and I'm gonna get through as many as I can. So let's get into it. Beyond-the-Mic, "How do you deal with negativity on the internet?" I... This has been the year that I've tried to rail against cynicism. I just, I hate it. I hate it so much. Reminds me of all of the sort of narrow-minded, very defeatist mentalities that I, I really didn't like. It's all the worst parts of the UK and I don't like it. Uh, I, I deal with it on the internet by following as few people as possible. So on Twitter, I think I follow 100 people. Uh, I don't spend that much time scrolling Instagram, and my YouTube feed is relatively well curated, so I just try not to see it. That being said when it comes to comment sections and stuff, it's difficult. Like, I wrote this thing the other day, which might be, I guess, interesting at least to listen to. Um, "Fame doesn't change you, it just changes everyone around you," is this quote from Lewis Capaldi in a documentary and I reflected on it a lot this year. "Identity lags reality by one to two years. There's a lot of psychological fallout from a rapid change in status." That's from Mark Manson. "It's jarring when everyone else tells you how great you're doing because you don't feel any different, but the world now sees you differently. It's like identity dysmorphia. And because you forget compliments but remember insults, any increase in exposure mostly just feels like an increase in criticism. At no point on the journey to becoming heavily scrutinized does anyone teach you how to deal with scrutiny. There is no training course for fame or criticism. You're just as vulnerable to it as you were when you started, but people presume that you accepted the deal of criticism when you decided to build a platform. You didn't." And that's kind of how I feel at the moment. Criticism's rough and negativity on the internet doesn't feel very good, especially not when it's directed at you. So it is a learning process, I suppose. And that's, like, perfectly true, what I just said there. There's no training course. There's no point between having 150 subscribers and 1.5 million where someone came along and, like, bestowed on me the skills to be able to deal with negative things. You just, like, I don't know, hope for the best along the way. But I appreciate all the people that are positive because you really do help. Stipe.vrd, "Hello, Chris. Congratulations on the 1.5 million. How is your book coming along and when can we expect it?" So there are two books in the works at the moment. One will be something similar to a more bro-y version of 12 Rules for Life, modern wisdom style almanac book. Still thinking about the value set for that, but I'm super excited. Like all of my newsletter stuff just gets me super excited about that. And then The Mating Crisis with David Buss. Between those two, you will have one within the next... It'll be completed within six months and it'll be published within 12. So probably start of '25 there'll be something out. Smlln, Sm- Smlln, "Do you use any time-blocking methods to manage your time?" I know I should. Ali Abdaal keeps telling me that I should. Uh, and I'm about to switch my productivity system from OmniFocus to TickTick. If you listened to the cinema, the Christmas episode that I did with the boys in the living room, you will know why. Oh, by the way, for the people that don't recognize where I am, like what, what's this place that I'm in, this is my bedroom in Newcastle, the house that I've still got in the northeast of England. This is where it all started. Literally sat right here. Different mic, different camera, different desk, different everything. Like, terrible lighting. There was, uh, candle stains on the ceiling, which Douglas Murray famously pointed out and everyone thought it was mold and the entire world was cr- criticizing me about mold. Uh, but yeah, I'm back for Christmas. I'm back in the UK. I'm back in Newcastle. And it feels very strange, um, to be back here. It's, it's really funny for so much to have changed and for you to be in a place that's so familiar and for you to feel quite different in some ways and also still be the same. So yeah, it's, uh, it's wild, but this is where we are. Look, we've even got the same, we've got the same lighting. You can kind of see that's the vertical bookcase. We tried to replicate all of this when I went to Austin. So it may seem like Austin was just something we did out of nowhere. And then the cinema episodes, I tried to match this teal and copper color. We do that on the big episodes. So it's all stemmed from this. This was the genesis right here. I hope you like it. Um, time-blocking methods. Yusuf's gonna teach me how to use TickTick. That should integrate it. I know that I should time block more. I use my calendar quite liberally, uh, but I should time block stuff that doesn't appear on the calendar typically, more like tasks. The answer is no, but I'm guilty and I think that I should. Tom Baynsey, "What's the biggest change for your next live shows?" Brackets, "Thought they were great." Thank you for coming, Tom. Um, biggest change for the next live shows. I'd love to do some more production. It was as raw as it gets. It's me in front of a screen that's got my name on it talking for 90 minutes and then doing a Q&A. So on stage on my own, which if you told me I'd done that a year ago would have terrified me, and still kind of did. Um, but I would like to add a little bit more production in, uh, some A/V stuff. You know, uh, montages, uh, maybe even scenes from the stuff that I'm talking about. You know, if I bring up a quote or I bring up an idea or I bring up something, we could maybe illustrate that behind me or, uh, even, like, cut to the episode and the point in the episode where I learned about it. That could be kind of cool. Love to integrate some music, some, like, touchy-feely ascending-y kind of things. But right now I just want to, like, dial in my ability to feel comfortable on stage, especially to crack jokes and do bits and do comedy is...... a, a whole other ball game. But yeah, that's, I'm just working on the craft for now, I think. Uh, we can add fluff and do all the rest of it when we try and do the, the O2 in London or something big, but for now just dialing the craft. SeesawSeesaw, "Why didn't you do anything for one million subscribers?" Fair question there. Uh, yeah, I kind of promised you guys a while ago that we would have this, like, really nice montage put together or that we would do something special. I'm being honest, the last five months, I can't remember when we hit one million subs, maybe five months ago, the last five months have just been unrelenting. Uh, internally, there's a lot of just, not uproar, just, like, work that needs doing. It's all really fun and I love the guys that are working alongside me, but it's just so much, man. Like, I've paid quite a high personal price this year to get the show to where it needs to be, and that's largely been with very limited time off and a lot of travel and not much time to kind of chill and turn my executive function off. Um, so l- largely, it's just because I didn't have time, and that sounds like a bit of a cop out, but we didn't. And (laughs) given that we're now closer, way closer to two million than we are to one million, I will endeavor to do something actually special, uh, for two million subs, I promise. I will try, (laughs) I will try my best. Uh, FurryPuffSkin6585, "Do you think that you still have some of the party boy character in you?" Yes. Uh, that degenerate lives sort of deep down, and it's very rare that he comes out. I think he came out once last year, maybe once or twice last year? Yeah, twice, twice last year, and no times, I think, this year. Uh, but I've got stag do, bachelor party for the Americans, uh, coming up in Ibiza. Next year, I'll have another trip for George's 30th in Miami or New York. So there's a couple of times where he just, he crests and sort of peeks his head over the surface and comes back down. Uh, but that was a huge part of me, man. Like, that was, you know, for a decade and a half... Professional party boy is not just like a cool way that I put it. Like, I was a full on degenerate f- (laughs) for a good chunk of my 20s and it was very formative, and I think so many guys are. Like, how many guys don't just send it for a good chunk of time? And that was my career. My career was being a party boy. Like, I literally, I ran the events, I was the guy in the front door with the massive afro that everybody knew. So yeah, he's, he's still a part of me, uh, he just is. He's on extended hiatus at the moment, potentially full retirement. UserTL4OC5DO8L, need a better username. "First of all, congratulations." Thank you. "Massive love for what you're doing. Secondly, if you went back in time, let's say late teens, early 20s, would you be able to appreciate all the struggle and negatives you went through to reach the positives? Or do you believe it is necessary to hate the negatives so that you have a motive to turn it into the positives?" Not entirely sure what that means. Say, "Would you be able to appreciate all the struggle and negatives you went through to reach the positives? If you went back in t-" I don't understand why I'd need to go back in time. Uh, I'll answer it as if I am now. Um, I think that having a chip on your shoulder and trying to prove something to people that doubted you or you don't like or you feel like didn't like you or shunned you or unrequited care or love or whatever it is, I think that is important. And, uh, oh, there it is again. He needs to drink. Those of us that see the solo episodes know that I need to drink. I think that the action threshold that you are required to do, that you need to reach in order to do great things, in order to really do anything that's kind of difficult, you can have the pleasure and the positive drive to go forward and you can have sort of distaste and chips on your shoulder and, uh, hatred, desire to push you from behind, and a blend of the two seems to be best. It's not a fuel that you want to use for too long, but it's very, very effective at getting you off the line, and that's something that I've managed to do and I'm now working on casting off the negatives and kind of that required to prove myself. Sid00077, "Are you planning on having Lex on your pod? Also, by any chance, since you've had a few comedians, will you have Nick Mullen or Adam Friedman on?" Nick Mullen, I messaged two days ago. Uh, we were DMing back and forth, I think someone on his team was DMing me, don't know whether it was Nick. Um, so yeah, I'd love to get Nick on. I think Nick's fantastic. Uh, Lex, we've been talking back and forth, I messaged him and congratulated him on the Bezos episode, I thought that was really good. If you haven't listened to that, you should go and check out, uh, Jeff Bezos on E- on, uh, Lex's podcast. And, uh, yeah, I mean, Lex is a busy guy, and (laughs) , like, gets... Uh, he's got other things on his mind, like for 18 months he was, like, really personally impacted by Ukraine and that's a bigger priority than me bringing him on. We'll get him eventually. TMCcandles7, "Chris, firstly, I greatly appreciate your work and the continual improvement in the guests and interviews." Thank you. "Can I make a suggestion? The titles of your podcasts really fail to capture the essence of the interviews, and I have missed many a great discussion. For instance, your Patrick Bet-David interview titled Why Does No One Trust The Media Anymore? did not remotely capture a fantastic discussion. My best, Tim." Tim, that's a fucking awesome way to deliver criticism, uh, very well balanced, and I appreciate you for doing it. Yeah, so look, titling and thumbnailing on YouTube, um, I touch... I might be setting myself up for a problem in future here. I touch every single title and thumbnail that goes out, every single one of them, and I think we have 2,000 videos, two, two and a bit thousand videos on the, on the channel.... all of them, I've touched. The reason for that is that I think it's very important to frame the episodes and the channel is an import- in an important way. Let me give you an example. Russell Brand. Russell Brand's team knows how to limbically hijack whatever's going on, but every single one of those titles make me cringe inside. They're- they're- it's horrible. It's horrible. Like, "They are coming for your kids. What? You don't know what they did?" It's like, oh God, guys, come on. Like, it's- it's the most antagonistic, tribal... It's- it's not good. Uh, I don't want to play that game. There's also different ways that you can do, uh, titling whereby you put- you kind of keyword plug different things. Um, Lex, Lex kind of does this. It's almost like a list. It's a listicle. And we've tried all of the different ones. Ultimately, if you're not happy with the titles that we're giving, stop clicking on them because we split test things on the backend. We split test tons and tons and tons of titles, and we know which ones people click on. Now, obviously, there is a way that all of this could just end up toward, like, the Russell Brand limbic hijack thing, which we don't want to do, so we have it within confines. We have parameters of where we're going to allow the titles and thumbnails to go to, and beyond that, we don't take it there, but ultimately, the titles are the- the titles and thumbnails are the things that people click on because we need to play within the game of the algorithm. You're right. Maybe, uh, "Why does no one trust the media anymore?" doesn't capture a fantastic discussion, but like, what does, that gets people to click? It's very difficult. Like, we tried. It's like, you know, Patrick Bet-David, a conversation on the challenges of modern, like, modern culture and media and whether or not he should run for president. It's like, no one clicks on that. We've tried. So, I would be interested in a solution that helps us to hold on to CTR whilst also, uh, sounding good. But, for a very long time, I fought with titles and thumbs, and improving them made a massive change to the growth of the channel. I don't think that we played a limbic hijack game that much. We very regularly, the boys, the copywriters that work for me, Jody and Chase, um, will come to me with something and I will say, "No, I'm not prepared to cross that particular line," which is totally arbitrary and probably would get us more plays. In fact, it would almost certainly get us more plays. And I come in with my big, like, hammer and whack them down and say, "No, sorry, too much. Can't have that. Too antagonistic, too tribal, too whatever, too accusatory." Like we've done too many titles that seem like that even if they work. So we work really hard to remain, like, as I would say, like, uh, ethical algo hacking. Um, but yeah, we're working hard, I promise. I promise you, trust me, we are working very hard to try and find that balance. Um, and yeah, I guess, just click on everything. Actually, that's a solution. Just click on everything. If you click on everything, then it doesn't matter what the title is, uh, you don't need to miss any of them. Click on them all. Timaxxfitness, "What does a full day in the life of..." What- "What look like a full day in the life of Chr- of- uh, Chris? Detail from the time you wake up until the time you go to bed. Do you exercise in the morning? Do you practice fasting before or during a podcast? Do you split your work up into blocks couple of times per day? Do you work during weekends?" All right. Try and blast through this quickly. Uh, wake up 7:00 AM, in the gym by 7:40. I'll have had LMNT and, uh, some probiotic-y stuff first thing before I leave. Train, get back, some sort of protein shake or some eggs, then sit down at my desk by 9:00 AM. We'll tend to catch up because the first video will go live at 10:00. So we'll check in on that, make sure that everything in terms of copy, in the Slack channels, are all sorted for that. Episode will go out, I'll be working through admin, having conversations, maybe some calls. About 12:00 midday, I'll stop and then begin, or, like, complete redoing prep for the guest. Then I'll record about 4:00 PM. That'll go until about 6:00 PM. Finish up. During that time, I'll have gone for walks, taken more calls, done more bits and pieces of reading, all the rest of it. And then usually 6:30, go out for dinner with friends, and then get back, and bed by 10:30. That's most days. And then, on a weekend, uh, the- I never record on weekends. We- I try more on a morning. I'll tend to go out, do comedy, live shows, all that sort of stuff. Uh, and that's kind of it. So it's kind of heavily routinized when I'm at home, but way less routinized than it was when I used to live here. Which again, is crazy. S- that couch that I'm pointing at, which you totally can't see and you may never see, probably thousands of hours are spent on that couch. Journaling, meditating, doing breath work, like writing, reading, just thinking about stuff for so long. So, if that sounds, uh, like robotic, whatever I'm doing in Austin, given that that's pretty much every single day, that version of me from a little while ago was way worse. M- mercedesalvarez8379. I'm nailing it with the names today, by the way. "When are you going to have BMTH on the pod?" All right. Bring Me The Horizon, uh, just today, Jordan Fish announced that he's leaving. Uh, Jordan is a good friend, and I hope that the departure was amicable. I don't know anything about it. Um, but I'm a massive fan of the boys and I would love to bring any of them on. Ollie, I've told a number of times that he needs to come on. We just haven't been in the same place, so we'll get him eventually. Logan Mack, "Regarding your policy of deleting or stopping people's comments from being seen, do you reckon this in part stems from being an only child, by way of not having to deal with the constant annoyances of others? Reasons previously given are very valid. Just a thought." All right. So, to recap, uh, season one of why people get banned from the channel. This is my house, take your fucking shoes off. Like, behave in an appropriate way. This doesn't mean that I expect everyone to be a sycophant or even agree with me, but it means that I expect people to-... like, behave in a civil manner. And if I bring some guest on the show and the comments are just filled with unthoughtful, stupid, like name-calling that hasn't got anything to do with the episode, uh, how many times do we go on and look at a two and a half hour, three-hour-long episode, and based on the title and thumbnail, someone has already spewed some half-baked opinion u- using an ad hominem or, like, calling names or bringing up something which is unrelated, and just being a dick? It's like, hey, guess what? This isn't a nice environment for anybody to be in, and that's not the way that I want it to be. Go on someone else's channel. Like, I- I don't mind if you- you only want to contribute to channels where you can brain fart out whatever you want uninterrupted at all times. That's not here. So that's what happened before. Do I think that this is my way of not having to deal with the constant annoyances of others? That's so interesting, and I've never thought of it before, and you actually might be right. I don't deal with frustrations very well, and when I want something to happen, if it's dependent on other people, I do find myself getting quite agitated pretty quickly. So yeah, actually, I think that that might contribute to it a little bit, um, but more so than that, I just want a really positive environment. What was the first question? About negativity on the internet, like I don't want a cynical audience, and there's a button on the back end of YouTube that's called "hide user from channel," I think it's called, and it means that that person can still watch, they can still comment, they can still like, but only they can see their comment and no one else can. And they're just spewing stuff into the ether, and it's one strike and you're done. Like, like, that's been the policy for over a year now, and if you go on and look at episodes, there is still tons and tons of criticism. So it's not like we're getting rid of criticism, we're just getting rid of the people that were spoiling the party for everybody. And like, you know what it's like, you go onto a channel and you look at the top few comments, and if the top few comments are stupid, you're like, oh, this is like a really idiotic audience. I don't want that. Satchidsigni111, "We need a video on your monk mode." Was just talking about that. How timely. Um, so I got a bit of stick actually, uh, like three or four months ago, or maybe even it was at the start of the year, and then it got popped back up again by Podcast Cringe a couple of months ago, or a couple of weeks ago. Um, I talked about an old morning routine that I used to do, which was pretty extensive. It was wake up, go for a walk, uh, element in water, come back, sit down, journal, breath work, into meditation, into reading, into food prep, and it would take... During COVID, I, like, spun it up to like nine- oh, and, uh, uh, mobility work as well, so Stu McGill's Big Three for my lower back. During COVID, I'd got that to 90 minutes, maybe more, may- probably 90 minutes or so to get that done, and I don't disagree. All of the people that were saying in the comments when it first came out and then when it popped back up again, uh, like, "This is ridiculous," how, (laughs) like, out of touch, uh, like, "Tell me that you don't have a job," well, f- without telling me that you don't have a job, um, I don't disagree with all of those things. I wasn't suggesting that other people do it or that it was even necessarily optimal. There are probably ways that you can enjoy more of your life and not take up the first two hours of your day doing, like, mad bro self-development stuff. However, I found unbelievable success with doing that, and I think it was maybe a counter to Party Boy Chris that had had his head up his ass for so long that he needed this, like, very intense pharmaceutical-grade dose of introspection and isolation and in- introversion and all of that stuff to drive it home. So for me, consider it a compensatory mechanism, but for, you know, for a long time, dude, I'm looking down there, and I can see the stack of journals that I completed, like 11 six-month journals in a row that I completed daily, morning and evening, and these were big. They were formative parts of, of me, and it was, it's- I- I'm not gonna lie about, like, what I did. What I did during that period was a lot of time on my own, a lot of time without alcohol, a lot of time without partying, 500 days without caffeine, all that stuff, and it worked, and, you know, I- I- I don't disagree. Like, it's ridiculous. It's fucking- (laughs) it's absolutely insane, and almost no one can do it, and- and m- many people might see it as hell, but it was really good for me, and it ended up making me into a better person. So I think fucking hooray for that version of Chris. Joe Gaffney, "Modern Wisdom primarily focuses on intellectuals as guests. Would you be open to start having people from other fields on, like Fred Again, Theo Von, or are you going to leave that to the kind of DA- DOAC and stick to the intellectual framework?" So I mean, Mark Normand, uh, and Whitney Cummings are probably going to be very flattered by you, uh, calling them intellectuals, but yeah, man, I- I- I love speaking to people from all different strokes, and I don't know, for next year, I'm thinking about a little bit more from the comedy side. I was blown away by Whitney Cummings. Like, look at the comments on that episode. Uh, just outstanding, like, people going, "I can't bel- like, who is this person? I was so impressed by her." Like, she's great. I really, really impressed, uh, r- like, enjoyed that conversation. Yeah, for next year, Fred Again would be great, would absolutely adore to speak to him. Uh, Theo Von is on my hit list, and yeah, I think broadening out the- the fields a little bit more. That being said, obviously, as you go up and up and up through those echelons, even for someone with a one-and-a-half-million YouTube channel, it's still tough. Like, it's still this big, like, networking game, and the timing has to be right and all the rest of it. So no, yeah, uh, we'll be broadening out as we have. I think we've continued to broaden out quite nicely over the last six years, but I won't stop.Mangelos, "How does your online success affect your self-image in real life? How do you view yourself today versus Chris from five years ago?" Dude, these questions are so good. Like, the insight that you guys have from watching the show and then being able to work out some hole that's gonna be interesting. Uh, you should be very... Everybody that submitted a question should be very flattered because you- you come up with good questions. (sighs) "How does online success affect your self-image in real life? How do you view yourself today versus Chris from five years ago?" Um, to be honest, man, it's- it's like kind of jarring. It's that little sentence that I said at the top, um, identity lags reality by one to two years. So I'm still just catching up to me moving out to Texas and feeling, oh, like I'm a person who deserves to have an O-1 visa and live in America or whatever. Um, I'm less wracked with self-doubt and uncertainty than I was before. Uh, I view y- I view myself as kind of worthy of my successes, which I don't think I could have said, uh, probably even a year ago. So, that makes me feel good. I like the fact that, like, I'm not just riddled with imposter syndrome and- and- and- and self-doubt. Uh, that's a big difference. A huge difference, actually. Um, but online success is, like it's niche fame. Like at the- at the very, very best, I've got like micro niche fame. And if you put me in the right bro-y sort of gym, like five guys will come up to me on a busy Saturday and say, "Hey man, I love the show." And that's great. Like that's a perfect optimal amount of fame. Uh, the difference from Chris five years ago was, uh, so much. I mean, confidence, uh, self-belief, the feeling that I deserved success, like an endless litany of things. And, uh, it'll be interesting to see where I'm at in a year's time because it feels like there's been quite a big change internally over the last 12 months. Samuelquin2321, "Would you ever consider being more disagreeable with your guests?" Fair question. Um, I find it tough to really lean in to the disagreeability thing, you know, like the Destiny, Douglas Murray style, like Michael Malice, like real finger pushing stuff. Uh, that's not my nature, um, and kind of in the same way as if you saw some guy that used to weigh, you know, 55 kilos and now is deadlifting like 150 pounds, and you'd be like, "Well, 150 pounds isn't that much." Like, yeah, but look at where he started. The time (laughs) - the times that I manage to really push the guests on something with a disagreeable tone takes an awful lot for me to get over, and that's part of my nature, and it's something that I'm aware of, and it's something that I'm working on as well, to stop being such a people pleaser, even on the show. Um, so yes, it's something I'm actively working on, and for next year will be one of the key areas of rhetoric that I think I try and bring into the show more. Uh, that being said, uh, in my experience, if you give people enough rope, they will end up hanging themselves in any case, and being... just sitting back and giving people room to speak often allows them to like diddle their own philosophy, uh, uh, more effectively than you would be able to. But I also don't agree- uh, don't disagree, sorry. I would say, yeah, uh, that's something I'm working on. Chortler, "You appear to have drifted/be drifting toward the right politically with your choice of guests. Is this you aligning with your target audience in an attempt at bringing some sort of balance or something else?" Um, I don't know, I mean, like Scott Galloway, Helen Lewis, David Pakman, Destiny, th- these people I wouldn't have said are from the right. Uh, I would say that I'm definitely more accepted by people who are like from the center and to the right of center, um, but I mean, I've asked- I've been trying to reach out to a ton of people from the left, m- one of which I can say is HasanAbi. Like, I really want to bring him on. I'd love to have a conversation with him. I can't get a response. Here's a good story. So we were about to work with a merch company. We've never done Modern Wisdom merch and I was like, God, six years, 1.5 million subs, pretty cool brand. I think Modern Wisdom's a pretty cool brand. Why don't we make some merch out of it? So we found this company and everything was gonna be great and it was a West Coast merch company, but they distributed internationally, and they had a very female, very Gen Z, very left-leaning design team. They did a kickoff call with them and said, "Really great to say that we brought Chris Williamson on board and we're gonna be doing the merch for Modern Wisdom." And there was a mutiny. And they literally said, "If you make us do this, we're leaving." So, the sensitivity around whatever positioning I'm supposed to have, I mean, like if you think that I'm unspeakable and beyond the pale, you're fucked if you go on the internet. Um, but yeah, that's... It's tough for me to get those people on. That being said, Scott Galloway, one of my favorite people, definitely is like fucking very, very lefty left. Uh, Destiny, the same. Helen Lewis was great. She was the- Helen Lewis was literally the lady from GQ that like held Jordan Peterson's feet to the fire for two and a half hours. So, I try and find balance as best I can. RobertWharton2394, "I ask this with no hater vibe, but why d- why did you choose to make an unhealthy energy drink your business venture?" I'd be interested to know what you mean by unhealthy, because it's got zero sugar, it's got natural colorings, it's got natural caffeine, it's got the methylated version of cobalamin, which is one of the B vitamins which is more easily absorbed by our body. It is completely evidenced-backed and I will go toe to toe with anyone in the evidence-based community on the formulation of it. What I presume that you're talking about is the fact that we used Ace K as the sweetener. Now if you look at any... any shelf of drinks. You will see ACE-K and aspartame being used very liberally, including in PRIME, including in tons and tons of drinks that are much more famous than ours. Um, I don't think that it's unhealthy by virtue of the fact that I literally designed it this way. Could we have put... A lot of people have said, "Why couldn't you use stevia?" Have you ever tried to use stevia with a evidence-based formulation like ours? Because each one of the different compounds that we put in has a different bitterness profile. So you've got cognizin, pretty bitter. Rhodiola rosea and Panax ginseng taste fucking awful on their own. L-theanine, it can be kind of gritty. Then you've got the B vitamins that you need to load on top, plus the caffeine that needs to go in. Trying to get that to taste nice, we tried everything. I really wanted to try and make it work with, uh, natural sweeteners, and it didn't. So it's, I mean, been having it just before I started. It's money. This stuff's fucking dynamite and I'm so proud of it. I love the branding. I love the way it looks. I love what it does. Everyone that takes it is super, super impressed. So, uh, if it's not for you, if you are so dialed on your health and fitness regime that the type of sweetener that you have in your productivity drink is something that you have narrowed your health and fitness goals down to, more power to you. But it's not for me. Matas, "Why do you party vape?" Um, I feel like you've seen me somewhere. Uh, so yeah, when I'd... Look, we were on tour, and I was in, uh, Toronto or Vancouver. Uh, Vancouver, I think. Uh, when I drink, I've started vaping. Uh, I do it at comedy cl- uh, shows and I do it at, um, when I'm on nights out. But thankfully, I don't go out that much, which means I don't ma- vape that much. I don't know. I'm gonna blame it on Zach. Zach vapes and when he's got one around, I always grab it off him. That being said, I'm thinking about doing, uh, sobriety for all of 2024, which will also fix the vaping problem. But I don't know, largely 'cause it's fun and because whoever it was, degenerate Chris, party, party boy Chris is still in there, uh, somewhere and I've got to get my fix. You know, if I stop doing fat lines and hard drugs, party vaping is like the PG equivalent. Isaac Mijangos, "When is Tim Dillon getting on the show?" Dude, I'd love to bring him on. I love that guy. He's in and out of Austin. That guy has been in Austin when I've not been there for the last three times. It's almost as if someone knows, someone in Tim Dillon's team knows when I'm leaving and then purposefully places him in the city at that time. But yeah, I, I'm a huge fan of his podcast and I would love to bring him on, and hopefully we can make it happen next year. Ali, "Is there any amount of money which will make you consider making an OnlyFans account?" Everyone's got a price. OH Ambitious One, "Do you still get depressed?" That's an interesting question. Um, I did for a lot of my 20s. I can't remember the last time that I was. Um, there's little waves of that, those thought patterns do sometimes burst above the surface a little bit. But it's been a long time. Like proper, proper depression for me is laid in bed, can't leave, make excuses, stop doing things, order shit food, don't open the curtains, stay on phone all day or watch screens, nap at least twice, three times, don't leave, go to bed that night, run it back the next day. Um, I actually think in, in retrospect that it was, like, acute burnout rather than depression was what was happening to me. But, uh, largely, no. And I think that good health and fitness regime, better climate, more friends, and a better sleep and wake pattern, um, has made probably s- ni- 70% to 90% of the difference. D1andOnly, "What next?" Um, good question, I guess, going into 2024. So book is gonna be a priority for the first six months of next year. Um, I really need to just get my head down and get that written, because once it's done, then I can, you know, get back into other things. Don't let the show drop. Don't take my eye off the ball. There's so many different things that, you know, opportunities and, "Why don't you do this?" And, "We could get you as an advisor and here's an investment and here's a company that we could start new." "Why don't you do a course on that?" And, "Maybe we could do this thing with you, some partnership with this company." All of those things are exciting, but they're not the main thing. And you know, if you've downloaded my reading list, you'll see that one of the top five books is Essentialism by Greg McKeown. And being an essentialist, i.e. focusing on the vital few, not the trivial many, doing less but better, is easy when you have fewer things available for you to do than time to do them in. Because you can say yes to everything and still feel like you've got spare time. Now, the bar stool has been flipped upside down and there are more things that I could do with my time than time that I have to do them in. And each potential thing for me to do is like the best thing that I've been offered ever over and over and over again.