#639 - 900k Q&A - Unreleased Andrew Tate Episode, Toxic Comments & Steroids

26:02Niko Neal. What software do you use to record the podcast remotely? Do you have any recommendations on how to optimize audio quality when recording remote interviews through Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Critical drinker sorted me out with this. I was having a bit of a nightmare recording remotely, and he got me onto StreamYard. You need to get StreamYard, whatever the big dick, biggest, biggest, biggest dick platform is before you go to like Teams and Enterprise and all that. It's like Pro or Platinum or something, and you can do local both ends recording, audio and video separate tracks, 1080p, locally recorded and uploaded, and it's all hosted in a back end that everybody can access.

26:37You can delegate user profiles, and it's brilliant. So, stream out. Sam C. Have you ever considered going on Russell Brand's podcast or having him on the show? He's just put the video out on population collapse, and I can imagine you having a really interesting conversation with him. I would love to speak to Russell Brand about population collapse. He has gone, especially during COVID, it was a bit like, you don't know that they're coming for you, you won't believe that what they said about your children's vaccine state, like it was all kind of a bit, like if the sun made a YouTube channel, but he seems to have dialed it back, which is good.

27:11And the population collapse video that he did was with my friend Stephen Shaw, like I broke on this podcast a couple of months ago. So for as long as he's supporting Stephen, fucking brilliant population collapse, fascinating topic, Russell Brand, genuinely, genuinely interesting fellow, a little bit tough to get hold of. So I need an intro to him. If you know the Russell brand, loot me in. That'd be great. Holly Robinson, I think I'm too late to ask a question for the pod, may not. But two guest suggestions, Brett Contreras, aka the glute god, not familiar with him, but he sounds interesting.

27:45Palmer Lucky, I did a podcast at Palmer Lucky's house actually, so I've met him. Palmer look he's interesting dude he's got like this military wing thing that he does and he was the guy that founded Oculus and sold it to Facebook. It's pretty cool. M. Sidhath, 1980. What do you think about Indian foods? Phenomenal but hard to find good quality Indian food in Austin. Authentic vibe vibe have. How is it like being you? I think you It's pretty fun at the moment. I think my life, if people got to see what my day -to -day life looks like, they would probably be quite surprised. It's very regimented, very normal, like kind of boring for the most part.

28:37There's, it's interspersed with cool stuff, right? Like last night I got to go to the comedy mothership and went in and got to see Mark Norman and chilled out and caught up with him because he'd been on the show on Wednesday. Or, you know, today Bill Perkins, the guy that wrote, I get to go out in his boat. But for the last full week, basically all that I've done is go from here, wherever I've recorded a podcast to the place I sit and work in my house looking over my garden, answering emails, doing calls, organizing stuff, trying to integrate this growth for the team so that I don't need to do this all the time.

29:11So it's fun but kind of repetitive. And I'm looking forward to having more fun in my life, because it's been, I've grinded a lot since I got to Austin, so I think it's time for me to maybe let go of some of that. He says as he begins to embark on writing a book, Cade Darbashaya, do you think we'll react too slowly to population collapse? That's a good question. Reacting too slowly to stop it, yes, I think that we're already rolling down the hill and And I think that we're probably going to get at least below 5 billion, maybe below like 4. What you are going to see though is a rapid diminishing of particular groups of people, particular sort of demographic groups.

30:08groups. So white liberals, for instance, are kind of going to be eradicated by population collapse because they're not having children. So who do you think are going to be the white liberals in future? Now, don't say that it's supposed to be the case that we're supposed to have a society filled with white liberals. But if you care about liberal values and that's something that you want to propagate into the future and you're not having kids, you are ending not only your own genetic line but also your own cultural line and your own political line. So what you're going to end up with are rapid proliferation of groups like orthodox religious, fundamental religious groups.

30:50So moments, Jews, orthodox Jews, especially like Roman Catholics, Christians and Christian sects and stuff like that. So those are going to be the ones that are going to grow, which is interesting. It's like, will you react too slowly to population collapse over time? I think that a true, true existential risk. I don't think population collapse is, but it's going to be shitty on the way down. It's going to be shitty while we're there. And it's going to lose not like biodiversity, but like human diversity actually is going to decline an awful lot because the sort of groups that don't reproduce are going to be the sort of groups that don't reproduce, which means that downstream from that there are fewer of them to make fewer of them to make fewer of them.

31:30Meanwhile, other groups are going to make more of them to make more of them. So if you care about having a diverse population, which everybody who doesn't care about population, collapse says that they are, you need to have kids.

31:45Linnai .ee. What is the best way to become an articulate and eloquent person? I get asked this question a lot and just intentionality, I think, is the most important thing. Think about what you're going to say. We precise with your speech, practice it if you can record it, listen back to yourself and work out what the twerks and tweaks and ticks that you have are that you don't like. Get rid of them, go again. Working with a speech coach that I have done and I still do, and I will be doing in the build up to my performance at the end of the year for the live tour, it's honestly like what brand of protein powder do you use in order to get big, as opposed to Did you go to the gym five times?

32:27Are you eating your macros? Are you getting enough protein into your diet? Are you having your protein shake? Like the brand of protein shake, it's the top 5%. That was the leverage. Almost all of it was just reps, spending time and attention. That's the way to go. Russ Broch, just buzzed my hair similar to yours. Good work. Do you like it for confidence reasons? It's convenience reasons to be honest. Not having to do your hair is a life hack. it's hot here in Austin. It's the reason I just got it cut from like that long down to however short it is now. And I had a massive afro for almost 10 years.

33:07So I've served my time with long hair. Good art soup. What is the field that you're interested in but haven't covered yet in the podcast? So I think that the existential risk of AI is something that I'd love to revisit, given that we've got this language learning model, chat GPT, GPT4, GPT5 thing coming down the pike. I think now is the time to really sink back into that. I was obsessed by it for a while when I first read Super Intelligence by Nick Bostrom and now I've got all of the market in the world to talk about this with and yeah, I'm going to have Tristan Harris, a text of him a couple of days ago, the guy that did the social dilemma on Netflix.

33:50He texted him, he's keen to come on at some point. Jeffrey Miller is going to come on and do a primer so that all of you guys can understand the entire landscape of what we're talking about, how AI could be an ex -risk. And then I've got a catcher, Grace maybe, who's an AI researcher that William McCaskel introduced me to. So I've got a ton of different people that I'm going to kind of try and fold together and really just work out. Okay, how big of a problem is this? What are the ways it could go wrong? What are the ways it could go right? What do we need to do to protect ourselves? What What can we do ourselves to influence the way that this field moves forward?

34:23So that probably AI. Kiran Kormi Coach. Very excited to come to your money event later this year. How will it be structured? So I think it's going to be similar to the 14 lessons from 2022 style episode. So segments of me telling stories, insights from those stories. Hopefully there'll be some production that we can tie into that to make it feel a little bit more immersive, maybe some music. I might be speaking to Mark from after school or someone similar to get some visuals that can kind of accompany what we're doing. I did this, you might not have seen, but I narrated a story for after school, which is really cool.

35:03It's called The Slowed Rip of Endless Fantasy, I think. I really enjoyed it and I thought that it drove the point home in a way that me just telling you a thing can't. So I'm going to try and have some of the philosophy -broad stuff, a little bit of jokes and personal stories, some really tactical takeaways, you know, how to apply this, and then some super inspirational points that will tie in with some performance art, the music -y stuff too. It should be really fun. I'm just going to And then you've tested the water and see what works, what resonates. And then from there, you know, come 2024, if we do a really bigger tour, I love got a good bit of like, right, wow, all of that stuff worked.

35:51Or this is really great and this we can switch or whatever else. It's going to be cool. I'm really excited.

35:59Reluca Fenachui. Fenachiu. No question. I just love you. Thank you. I love you too. Keep the fire burning. we are doing good to the world. Try. Col Campbell, what is the biggest sacrifice you make behind the scenes to make him on and wisdom what it is? I think it's what I said earlier on. Life takes a big hit. I'm not a lumber worker, right? With a 90 out of a thousand chance of mortality per year or something. like I don't lose 10 % of my friends to work accidents every single 365 days. But it is consistent, it is hard work, it is grind, like there's a lot that I put in and it does, like it is sapping sometimes and it's all me, right?

36:51There's no boss, there's no one to step in and to make this work become harder, become easier, sorry, there's no one else that's going to come in and help and do it. If I don't do it, it's not going to get done. If I don't find the guest, if I don't schedule them, if I don't research them, it's not going to happen, which is fine. That's the price that I chose to pay. And I love to like show itself, but there's an awful lot that goes on to like just buttress it and keep it going. And it's getting more, there's more and more and more stuff that needs to be done all of the time to keep the show going.

37:21So I'm looking forward to growing the operation to the point where I can kind of just get back to only doing the stuff that I'm really, really good at, which is conversations, researching. That's it. Capy, do you ever feel like your head is going to explode with all this information you take in all the time? And if so, how do you process all of this and make sure important lessons aren't forgotten? Okay, so Chris Bot came back. I spoke to the team that made it and actually made an upgraded version 2 .0 that is less Switzerland -y, sit on the France, is it Belgium or Switzerland? whoever it is.

37:54Anyway, it's like more me supposedly. So let's see, do you feel like your head is going to explode with all this information you take in all the time? And if so, how do you process all of this and make sure important lessons aren't forgotten? Chris bought. Don't be a cook. Ha, I'm not sure if my head is going to explode, but I do feel like I'm constantly learning and growing. I'm always looking for new ways to process and store information and I'm constantly challenging myself to think out the box. I'm also a big believer in taking notes, writing things down so I can refer to them later. This way, I can ensure that I'm not forgetting anything important.

38:24That's not far off. That's not far off at all. I do take a lot of notes. And you'll hear me in episode sometimes refer to them. I'll bring up some quote that I'm trying to find and I'll just tap tap tap tap tap tap away. And then it comes up processing it and making sure that the lesson's unforgotten. I've said this before. It's I have to teach it. I have to recall it to people on an episode with a guest or in the newsletter or on a tweet or when somebody asks me just day to day during conversations, I'm always recalling information. You have to remember that learning and memorization does not come from repeated exposure.

39:00It comes from repeated recall. You have to recall the stuff. If you're not recalling it, you're not going to learn it. Like repeated exposure means nothing. Repeated recall is what matters. A Kandai Daniel recently started watching your podcast. You're a huge inspiration to me. Thank you. Any advice for a 20 year old who doesn't know what the fuck to do with his life? Chris bot. Let's see if you've got anything to say for this gentleman who doesn't know what the fuck to do with his life. Come on now, Chris bot. You cook. My advice would be to take some time to explore and find out what you're passionate about.

39:36Don't be afraid to take risks and try new things. You have plenty of time to figure out what you want to do. So don't be afraid to take a few details along the way. Life is all about learning and growing, so don't be afraid to make mistakes. and learn from them. Also not bad from Chris Potter. I would say explore before you exploit, so you can go and travel to a new country, try something different, go and work abroad for you, don't be scared about taking risks, you've got basically nothing to lose because you haven't accumulated anything yet. There is going to be a point in your life in 10 or 20 or 30 years time where you have tons of responsibility and restrictions and you can't go and do this anymore, so allow yourself to do the things now that you are only going to be able to do now.

40:15And that includes when I was 22, I went and did the season in Ibiza and it was maybe two months or something there and I came back and I'd lost like 12 IQ points and had just Partied for the entire time But it was fun and I'm not going to do that now I'm not going to go and do the season in Ibiza now So there are certain things that you can only do that you can only experience Adventures that you can have learnings that you can gain at certain periods of your life So what are those now? How can you go and explore? more, expose yourself to different things, different people, different cultures, different languages, different adventures.

40:47And you will discover, especially if you're a reflective person, which it sounds like you are, you're going to discover so much about yourself during that process. Just keep on exploring. And eventually you'll find the thing that you're looking for. The Benas podcast, proud to say I've been around since day one, almost dear God, thank you. I apologize. The progression has been absolutely ridiculous in the most positive sense, doing three week like clockwork deserves all the praise possible. Thank you. I'm wondering how you learned to allocate your time to everything and how rigorous you are with your schedule.

41:20There has to be a ton of hard days in between. It has to be a ton of hard days in between. Keep rocking. Well, thank you. I'm not that, I'm not that like rigorous with the schedule in that there's no calendar, but I do just try and do the same things each day of each week. So Mondays we sit down, we go through clips, we make sure that the full weekly YouTube schedule has been lined up. I'll do prep for all of the guests and I'll try and check in on emails. Tuesday, Thursday for IDA, I'll try to record. Wedding's day is published day, so that's full day running through titles, intros, thumbnails, descriptions, everything for the coming up week.

41:59Then record intros, record ad reads, deal with advertisers and make sure that everything's sorted there. And then weekends do the newsletter, try and have some time to myself, and then run it back from Monday. So I've kind of outsourced a lot of what I do to just routine, but it's not like it's a rigorous schedule. I don't have some, you know, very carefully put together calendar that's keeping me accountable, because as a disciplinary and I'm kind of shit, but as a habit follower, I'm actually really good. And I think that this is, you know, the other side of talking about discipline, that discipline can be made much more easy if you turn things into habits, but because having to rely on anything that isn't discipline, like, you know, discipline, eat to motivation for breakfast, which I don't disagree with, having to rely on anything that isn't discipline makes it sound like you're undisciplined, but you might as well just use less discipline if you can, and relying on routine is one of those strategies that I think that you can use.

42:56Alex Davidson, why are you so interested in the fact surrounding how a majority of men struggle to attract women when you yourself are well outside of that demographic. I imagine that for men that are in that demographic, listening to you talk about their plight is a bit like a billionaire explaining how much poverty sucks to a homeless person. You're good looking and successful, so why you fascinated the average guy's dating struggles. I'm looking forward to your million mark, man. I think your show is underrated. Keep up the good work. That's a very good question. A tough bit of pushback, but also a shit sandwich to make me feel nice at the end.

43:28That's the sort of comment that is critical but acceptable. On the podcast channel, um, the analogy between me being like a billionaire explaining how much poverty sucks to a homeless person, if I wasn't successful and I wasn't good looking and I was talking about the plight of men, people would accuse me of just being bitter. Even though I'm not those things and I talk about them, I'm accused of being out of touch. So it's a very difficult, like it's unfalseifiable really for me to talk about. I can either be in that cohort and be accused of being a misogynistic in -sell soy boy, or I can be outside of it and I can be accused of being like a bourgeois opulent lapper.

44:08So I think the reason that I do it, the reason that I'm interested in it is because any topic that is not being discussed by the mainstream media but needs to be discussed because it's affecting people's lives. What am I doing with an independent platform if things that interest me and that I care about and that are underrepresented that I don't bother talking about them.

44:34I do think that there is value in hearing from people who are on the ground experiencing the sort of stuff, but I don't know. Like, do you, why do people follow guys that are in shape when they're learning how to get in shape? Is that not like saying, well, this guy is genetically gifted or he's on steroids or or he has been training for longer than me, so what's the point in learning from them? I'm not too sure. The guys that are in that demographic that want to hear from anybody talk about the plight of men, they can go to any channel that they want. There's wheat waffles, that's like a black pill content creator who is still on the come up and doesn't consider himself to be that good -looking, so they can go and listen to him if they want.

45:19But I don't know, like the billionaire explaining poverty to a homeless person, I would like to think it's a little bit more like the billionaire saying to the world we should care about homelessness and dedicating a good bit of his time to trying to raise people out of it and also to give awareness to the world that poverty is something that we should care about. I'd like to think that that's the approach that I'm doing. If it does appear like I'm just some like bourgeois lapper laughing from his high horses, he doesn't deal with any of the problems that the normal world has to deal with. I'm not convinced that that's true.

45:50And also I hope that it's not the case because So genuinely do care, do care about both men and women. Anybody that's suffering, man, like for all that the 500 drivers of the internet don't think that this is the case, I am a really, really empathetic person, like massively to a fault to the point where it makes me make decisions incredibly slowly. I massively regret things that I say to people even small. There's comments I've made over the last year that I can't stop thinking about because I'm like terrified that it makes me into a piece of shit, even though it's just some passing joke that I made or a bit of banter that the other person's never going to remember.

46:21I care about anybody that's suffering and especially people that are suffering that are being ignored by the mainstream. I think that it's a good investment in my time. I appreciate the question. It's a really good question. Johnson Uha. I'm 13 years old. Interested in business and I go to the gym. What do you recommend I do to acquire more knowledge and invest in my future? Dear Godman, this is the second time in a row now that a child who watches this podcast has come on and asked questions around business and personal development and stuff. First off, massive, massive props to you being someone who is just under a third of my age and is asking yourself questions that most people my age haven't got around to asking themselves yet.

47:14Congratulations. Secondly, I don't mean to be patronizing, but experiencing life and just allowing yourself to indulge in social situations, exposing yourself to as many different experiences as possible will be the highest leverage thing that you can do with regards to your learning. Like, there is so much unrealized wisdom and insight that you tap into by just experiencing the day to day, like, uh, this is a chance of being a human because you haven't had a massive amount of it yet, that you're going to capture a lot of that. So I would be very cautious around going monk mode at age 13, focusing on reading all of the books you can and spending your time in the gym with your headphones in listening to sleep tokens new album.

48:05I would spend time probably around people that are older than you. If you can get him with good, well -meaning 15, 16, 17 year olds that will take you under their wing, you're going to be careful that they're not going to take you down a dark path. But you're basically like 13 years ahead of your 13 year old self. So finding people that are a bit older would be a big help. If you are serious about trying to maximize the time that you spend in terms of understanding knowledge and investing your future in. Find the content creators that resonate with you the most. Listen to them, consume their stuff, read, however you feel is appropriate.

48:46And then apply that to life. Like don't be too concerned about starting a business at age 13 unless there is some niche that you know that you can nail and you have a competitive advantage. Living life, exposing yourself to your content and then going and applying that day to day would be great. But dude, you're going to be a beast. You're going to be a monster. You're going to be phenomenal as long as you don't knock yourself off. So keep going. Zhong Liu, do you have advice for someone who wants to start a podcast, but don't feel qualified? None of us will qualify. Nobody started a podcast and was qualified.

49:21There is no podcasting qualification. When I started doing this, the first ever episode was me in my old studio with a single blue yeti attached to the middle of the desk that made tons of noise and I kept saying, mm -hmm, every three seconds and it was filmed on an iPhone and the guy's girlfriend was in the corner of the room and that's it and now we reach like hundreds of millions of people every single year. So you don't need to worry about the qualification and no one's watching you when you start doing something. People that have a fear that when they start doing something they're going to suck and the people that are watching them are going to laugh at them, The beautiful thing is no one's watching.

49:58So few people know that you're doing the thing that no one is there to watch how much you suck at doing the thing. There is no pressure. You can just start. How can a more traditional woman who wants to be pursued be more proactive in her love life? That is a cool question. Chris Bott, come on. Red -pilled Chris Bott, this is the newly ascended hard core, forechan, crisp bot. How can a more traditional woman who wants to be pursued be more proactive in her love life?

50:33Hmm, that's a tough one. Good start. I'm not sure I'm the best person to answer that question. I mean, I'm a guy, so I'm not sure I'm the best person to give advice on how to be pursued. You're just saying that I'm not pursued. But if I had to guess, I'd say the best way for a traditional woman to be more proactive given her love life to make sure she's putting herself out there. Go to events, join clubs, and make sure you're meeting new people. That way, you can increase your chances of meeting someone who is interested in pursuing you. That's not bad. This is kind of, this is a lot more like me.

51:04Now, I think one other thing that you could do, and we're writing about this in the book at the moment, is cultivating as a woman, cultivating openness and friendliness. So in a post -MeToo world, 86 % of women say that they want a man to make the first move, but around about 50 % of men say that they are terrified of making the first move for being seen as creepy. Around about 20 % of American millennials and gen Zedders say that a man asking a girl out on a date, asking a girl out for a drink in person, always or usually constitutes, not abuse, but like is overbearing and shouldn't be done. So you have a world in which guys are seeing anything that resembles a no, as a hell no, but girls who still want to be approached.

51:54So guys are scared of approaching. Girls want to be approached, but a terrified of being physically abused by some like random man on the street. And like that just causes neither of them to ever open up. So the goal for guys is to cultivate a sense of overcoming approach anxiety while still being safe and respectful to women. And on the woman's side, it's important for them. Like this is a takes two to tango scenario. The woman needs to be open and friendly. They need to be receptive to the guys that they want to hear from. You know, if you give off a Y -men love bitch's vibe or like a treat him like you don't like him thing, he's not going to come over.

52:33So that would be a good way, you know, a more traditional woman who wants to be pursued and be more proactive. You don't necessarily want to be doing the short skirt and tinder thing, but you also still need to up your chances. Chris Bach got it right, you know, attend places and go to events and join clubs where that you will be around the sort of man that you want to date. And while you are there, cultivate receptiveness, openness, friendliness, I think that'll work.

53:10Risen, no live in. Did you think that you're gonna get this big? That's a good question. I mean, Dino always said, you know, even when we, I remember we were episode like 40 or something, and I remember saying, fact, dude, I can't believe that more people are watching and more people aren't listening. So I think this stuff's really interesting and he said, yeah, me too. It's really, really cool and strange isn't it? It just hasn't sort of kicked in yet. We've been saying and doing the same thing for five years now. Like some of the stuff that I put out on Instagram that went the goes super, super viral is shit that I've been saying for half a decade and it's just now that there's enough people to listen or because of I guess like The skewed perception of status changing how people perceive the thing that you say, like the many five years ago didn't have the same authority as me now, therefore basically the words that I say even if they're the same are essentially different.

54:08Not much has changed. It's just been the same conversations, the same curiosity and I know I'm very, very happy at how the growth is going. I want to change the day -to -day experience that I have of it, because it's such a heavy lift. But it's a price that I'm willing to pay, and it's not going to be like that forever. And for as long as we keep accumulating awesome people that ask questions like this, I'm happy. Matt, like, what was the hardest period slash worst phase of your life that you have managed to overcome? I don't think there's been a particular individual period of time. But there was a chunk, a number of chunks during my 20s where I was very regularly depressed down spending days in bed.

54:57I'd struggle to get out of bed and make excuses about not attending meetings and it would make me feel very ashamed of myself. And that was was born out heavily of a poor sleep pattern and I wasn't eating amazingly but it was mostly sleep I think and not connecting and not being true to the people that were around me. And that took a long time and like every end of September for probably five years I basically had to break down, a miniature breakdown because I'd worked so hard and invested all of this emotional energy into running the events. And then at the end of freshers week, at the end of the second freshers week, it was around for two weeks, sometimes the three weeks, I'd just break down and I'd spend a few days in bed, feel like an absolute waste man, and then drag myself back and restart the engine and then go again.

55:55And that was just the cycle that I'd go through. So probably that, and COVID wasn't great for a lot of things and I don't like the fact that it destroyed, it paused the business that I'd spent a decade building more than a decade, but it was good to teach me what a stable sleep and wake pattern feels like and to also give me an insight into a different kind of life outside of that. Paul Nadiris need a blue modern wisdom hoodie in my wardrobe when are they out? So I've wanted to do merch for ages. I've had a ton of conversations with merch companies but I'm not going to put out anything that isn't awesome because first off I've waited for ages and secondly if it's not nice You're not going to wear it and thirdly I want to wear it.

56:39So it needs to be good. We are sampling a million different versions of t -shirts and hoodies and Everything and it'll be out 100 % before the live tour because we need merch for the live tour, but Soon hopefully will it be blue? I don't know if it'll be blue. Maybe navy blue makes it sound too blue, but navy for sure Luke, blight, thought on cutting out alcohol and the implications it has on socializing. So I'm a massive proponent of going elective sobriety. I've done lots and lots of periods of it. The implications it has on socializing, the gains that you'll accrue by spending time around people that you genuinely are interested in and you don't need to sedate yourself out of the experience of being around is priceless.

57:34For me now half a decade, like six or seven years into playing with sobriety and using it as a tool, I do think that right now for where I'm at socializing is more important than being sober, but you don't need to drink to socialize. Does it make you less confident? Yeah, a little bit. Does it mean that you're going to want to go home at one in the morning as opposed to three in the morning? Yeah, But that's a good thing. Nothing fun has ever happened on a night out after one in the morning. Right. I know. I'm the night out guy, right? I have a sample size of a thousand club nights. Nothing good happens after one in the morning.

58:10So I, there is almost, almost no reason that if you've never gone sober and you live this sort of life that most people do, they're kind of drinking patents that most young people do in the West. There is no reason not to go sober. I can't think give a good reason if you've never done it before. What does Chris Botts say about this? I've been sober for a thousand days now and it's been a wild ride. Was sober for a thousand days. Was a vanilla ride. I've noticed that I'm more productive, I make fewer bad decisions and have more money in my pocket. Correct? I also make, I'm also more selective with the people I hang around with because I don't have alcohol to bond over.

58:49That said, I'm still finding ways to have fun and socialize with that alcohol. It's all about finding the right people and activities that don't involve drinking. All of this is correct. Socializing doesn't just mean going on a night out. Thanks Chris, but it doesn't just mean going on a night out. You can do stuff during the day. Go and see some live music. Go and see a comedy show. Go and do... Sport any... There's a million things that don't involve that. But it's a marker of how ingrained and embedded alcohol is into our culture that people immediately, as soon as you say socializing, oh, it's in a bar.

59:18Oh, alcohol's involved. So finding a group of people who don't need to drink to have fun and that you don't need to drink to be around, that's the life hack. Gary F. I'd love to see a behind the scenes of how you make your shows. You must have a big team working for you. There's not much to see man. This is kind of come up a few times down, really spoken about it before, but the process of making modern wisdom is for the most part very unspectacular. It's me with notes and documents and books and videos just frantically reading them all and listening to them all and trying to work out what I want to talk about and then a couple of other people doing things.

1:00:08Ben, Dean and Chase. Chase, wizard, YouTube wizard is helping to take a lot of work off my hands. Dean's always done the stuff that he's done and then Ben picks up all of the rest of the bits. It's not very spectacular. That may change and hopefully will do. But yeah, it's the behind the scenes would be like the least what you expect and what you would be delivered would be so disappointing. I don't think that it's going to be worthwhile. It would be cool to do one of the big episodes that we have, you know, like another Goggins or whatever when we we've got a few of those coming up soon. That's fun.

1:00:43But for the most part, I walk from that house to this house. It's come and stand in here. I make sure that I have a drink and then I start talking and then I go back in there and I upload everything and then an episode appears. It's not very exciting. Bailey Magi. What is your end goal? What's the next 10 years of Chris Williamson look like? See if Chris bought comes up with something but I'm going to answer it while he talks. End goal I don't have on. I just want to keep on having interesting conversations. It's been the way that it's always been. Find people I'm interested in, talk to them about the stuff that I'm interested in, that's it.

1:01:22The next 10 years of Chris Williamson, if I don't do something catastrophic and put my foot in my mouth or get canceled or say something stupid that I don't mean, it really does feel like the world's at my feet. And I said it at my birthday, Michael Malice, very kindly ran a birthday party for me a few months ago, and I said, you know, it literally feels like I can do anything and it's beautiful and I've never felt this way before that I have Every door open to me every opportunity is coming my way and I get to pick and choose what it is that I want to do And I get to hopefully like make the world a better place along with it I'm not kidding myself.

1:02:00I'm not gonna be remembered in a hundred years time but I can nudge the the civilization that I'm a part of, even a tiny, tiny, tiny degree, I can give it a little nudge and the people that are here at the same time as me, hopefully I can make their existence and their time on this planet make a little bit more sense and be a bit more enjoyable while they're here. Fuck like, that's pretty cool. It's pretty cool as a day to day. Chris bought what you say. My end goal is to maximize my freedom to do the things I want all the time. That's pretty hedonistic. I want to be able to wake up in the morning and decide what I want to do with my day, and if there are things I don't necessarily want to do, that's not strictly untrue.

1:02:40I want to be able to get them done quickly so they don't take up too much of my time. I also want to make sure that I don't fall into the trap of productivity dysmorphia, where I can't see the fruits of my labors on a daily basis. This crisp bot is like, this is overconfident crisp bot. So we've gone from cooked crisp bot to confident bot. Now, cool, I mean, it's not far off, but some of that stuff, I don't think that's what productivity does more for you means. And I made it up. Oh, Mar, Serial, Telly, are you taking steroids? No, I am not. And I would be in significantly better condition if I was.

1:03:16Tomic Konday, you get asked, every Q &A intro song, please. Right, I did it. I actually saw this come up and And I went and I found it. It's called Chris Talk, fly away the J .P .B. remix and Chris's K .R .Y .S. talk, fly away the J .P .B. remix. I listened to this earlier on today before I came and recorded. Listening to that song will make your head fall off because if you're listening to this on Spotify or Apple podcasts, I've heard it tons of times. I'm you know, it's been played millions, tens of millions of times that song as an intro and edit that I got my friend to make a DJ friend to make five and a half years ago.

1:04:00And then you hear the full version of the song and all of this extra shit appears and you go, no, no, no, no, he's supposed to say like such and such welcome to the show. Hang on, no, this isn't, this isn't where it's supposed to stop. There's all of this extra stuff. It's like the uncanny valley but for listening. So yeah, Chris Talk fly away the JPB remix is available on YouTube. It's creative commons licensed free Which is why we used it and then I got someone to edit it and it's the both intro and outro the actual outro to the song with that episode of that big long swell is the breakdown from the episode that you should be able to hear actually But yeah, that's that's it go and enjoy and break your brain So all this goods, if I want to get fit, I go to the gym consistently.

1:04:43If I want to girlfriend, what do I do? What's my gym? Fucking good question. That's a smart, nice question. I like that. You are smart people. If I want to girlfriend, what do I do? What's my gym? Well, the gym can be your gym for this. And you know, this is common wisdom from me. Go to the place where the kind of people that you want to date, hang out. Are you into girls that train? You need to be in a gym. A gym that social would be a great idea. So something like CrossFit or a bootcamp or any kind of team sport. Fuck me, the field near where I live, they do kickball, which looks like the lamest sport I've ever seen in my entire life.

1:05:26And yet, while the guys and the girls are stood waiting to kick the ball, The dudes are shouting up the girls. Some thinking, well, it's a co -ed spot. It's not actually that dumb of a way to meet girls, apart from the fact that every girl that goes there knows that you're the sort of guy that plays kickball. So, you know, other things, if you're into acting or improv or art or whatever it is, there are social groups that exist in the real world where other people into the things that you're into go to. If you're talking about how do I progress, how do I improve the constituent parts of my personal development in the same way as going to the gym makes you fitter?

1:06:09What is the progression place that you do if you want to get a girlfriend? It's just reps, right? It's just interacting with girls. Destiny's got this great piece of advice where he says you just need to have lots of girlfriends that you spend time around. And that's a really underrated piece of advice because good example only child never was friends with a girl that I didn't want to bang ever never was because I didn't have a sister like I guess pop from my mum I didn't have a sister I didn't have any girl friends in my life so for me from as soon as I was 14 15 16 all of the girls I was hanging around with I would just girls that I was attracted to but you lose out on a lot of the the understandings that you gain from just how to interact with girls, which is different to how you interact with guys.

1:06:54So yeah, I think hanging around in a place that's got girls, that you don't need to be trying to get with and just being okay with that and knowing that they'll be okay with that and knowing that you don't come across creepy and just learning how to communicate. That's the lion's share of what you're talking about, I think. Spooner Sean, what's one question that hasn't been asked in the Q &A that you wish somebody would have asked? Is there a topic that's bubbling up in your mind right now, but you haven't got the chance to deep dive on publicly because the right question or guest hasn't landed recently?

1:07:25This is like the solution to superintelligence from Nick Bosterium. It's called machine extrapolated volition. So basically if you can't get, if you can't work out what it is that you want a machine to do, you ask the machine what it should want to do if it was to detect all of your preferences. Chris bought, I'm asking him this. Hmm, that's a tough one. You're correct. No shit. I'm always thinking about new topics and ideas, but I'm not sure I have a specific question I'm waiting to be asked. I guess I'm just waiting for the right opportunity to come on. Cookbot and confidence bot merging together here.

1:07:58Not really man, like I talk for so many hours every single day. There isn't anything. There isn't something that I haven't been asked. And you don't know what you don't know, right? So I will wait and churn and a bunch of the other people from the locals regularly ask phenomenal questions So relying on them to come up with one Zo -hye -city Do you have any advice for someone who is trying to find good ways of taking knowledge? They have collected over time and incorporating it into their daily life Thanks, and I love your podcast keep up the great work Chris. So this mental masturbation concern thing is It's something that I feel in myself as well and I know that a lot of people that listen to podcasts and consume lots of content do because you are exposed to way more content than you have time to implement it and you get the illusion of progress by exposing yourself to more stuff and more stuff and more stuff and then you look at your life and you realize I haven't changed anything.

1:08:53You're good exposed to all of this new information and what have I done differently in my life? Oh, I haven't changed anything. So avoiding mental masturbation and the illusion of progress is very important. Doing it requires narrowing down all of the different areas that you're trying to change in because you can't change everything at once and if you try to, you're going to get nowhere, right? You have to sacrifice, you have to sacrifice progress toward everything in the short term to make meaningful progress toward any one thing. So forget worrying about all of the other stuff, focus on, I'm just going to work on and dialing in diet and training for the next month.

1:09:32And I'm going to learn as much as I can, and I'm going to try and apply it and be as applicable as I can. I want to have built up a little bit of momentum with those, then maybe I'll switch to some productivity stuff, and then maybe I'll switch to something else as well. When I look back, I realized that a lot of the times I stopped making progress, or when I took my eye off the ball of something that was an obvious goal, and then tried to pivot. So there's a period where I was obsessed with productivity, the start of this podcast, so obsessed with productivity, of age and ages, and I'd capped out, I'd already completed, I'd accumulated all of the information that I needed and I presumed that more productivity was just the next YouTube video or the next productivity hack away and it wasn't.

1:10:10I'd already done that. So it's like, okay, I've done this thing, I've completed it. Let's move on to the next one. I can come back to it in future. So I would narrow down the sort of things that you're doing. I would try and be as applicable as possible and I would ask myself when I'm reading or watching or consuming anything, how am I supposed to apply this to my life? What's the way to get tactical with all of this stuff? You listen to an entire podcast that I have with some guy, take one thing away from it. How can I apply this to my life? What should I do? Try and have itize it, try and make it into a routine.

1:10:41That should make a good bit of impact. But it's it's a disciplining of not doing more or it's a disciplining of restriction as opposed to a disciplining of abundance. So that would be, it's a different kind of challenge, but it is important. Jake, but firstly, congratulations and well deserved and still severely underrated. Thank you, agreed. Would you ever consider providing any standalone information on how you've developed your conversational fluidity and brilliant questioning skills, either via a course, video series, book, etc. I think that the world would benefit from people having more conversations like you have on your podcast, but not everyone necessarily has the verbal skills to facilitate them.

1:11:23So yeah, communication mastery is something that I've thought about releasing. As a course, I would maybe even bring in some guest lecturers, guys like my speech, addiction coach, comedy coaches that I've worked with, and other good communicators to maybe talk about their skills and then try and create a syllabus. But I'm also concerned about getting out over my skis, you know, like I am a good communicator. I've spent an awful lot of time developing real world skills from the ground floor on how to have a conversation. But I'm not trained. So who the fuck am I to release a course on it? And this is another reason this cynicism thing that I'm railing against at the moment.

1:11:59I want modern wisdom and I want the people who consume my content to be as positive as possible because I feel in myself the lack of confidence and the uncertainty and the skepticism that I have around things that I can do because I can hear what the worst elements of the internet will say if I try and do them. So if I try and release a course of communication mastery, even if people care about it and even if it adds value and even if it would be good, the fact that I'm not formally trained in it and the fact that I am going to be like trying to reverse engineer something which I just stumbled upon myself is going to cause people on the internet to have a vector of attack for me, which is going to mean that they can say you shouldn't be fucking doing this thing.

1:12:40So maybe I don't do it. It makes me reticent about going to do it, which is why being positive, encouraging people to go and try and do something and see how it gets on. And fucking, oh man, like good effort. You tried to release that thing and it maybe it was really, really great. And it had sense of value. I mean, you know, it was all right. And it wasn't so good or whatever. But like, you had a crack. I know, like, presuming the best of people seems like a really cool strategy. And that's what I want. I want more presumptions of positivity, the positivity presumption in paradox. But yeah, I would consider doing that.

1:13:18I would love to release it. Again, need help, cause management, building it, all the rest of it, which I just can't do on my own, because I have too much stuff to do. But I would love to release it. I just need to find someone that can bring it to life and overcome the skepticism. And this is me. One of the first questions is like, oh, you're me advising some guy, just, you know, adventure and explore and don't be worried about failing and here is me speaking my fear of failure out into the world. The guy that's about to hit a million subscribers on YouTube and reaches like 25 million people a month.

1:13:52That fear of failure continues to track with you. It doesn't within domains that you've already conquered but in domains that you're new in or you're moving into, it's going to be that so it's natural. Even the people that you think that I've got all of their shit sorted still feel this stuff that should make you feel more comfortable about not having your shit together as well. George Daniel, when you were younger, did you have any, when you were younger, did you have any limiting beliefs? And if you did, did you get over them? How did you get over them? You are an inspiration. Thank you, George Daniel.

1:14:29I mean, so many, man, my sense of self as a young, like a teenage boy, was microscopically thin. And I didn't realize it at the time, but I was chronically uncomfortable. Here's the story. So I remember that I played cricket. That was my pursuit of choice as a kid. And there would be times where, because of the type of player that I was, I bolded something called Legspin, which is probably the most complex style of bowling in the sport of cricket. And that means that it's very dependent on the conditions. If the weather's not right, if the pitch isn't right, if the game isn't at the right stage, it's very often that you would not be brought on to bowl because it's safer to bring on a different style of bowl, which is going to be more robust for the particular features of the game that you're playing.

1:15:26And that would mean that lot of the time I would go and play a game and then I wouldn't bowl and I would sometimes not bat because I'd be batting a little bit further down the order. So it's a TFC, a thanks for coming when you don't bat and you don't bowl. You basically don't do anything in the game apart from field. And I would speak to the coaches from the local county team that I was a part of that was the one that was trying to get me to move towards playing minor counties, playing major counties, going into an academy. I was on England's books, getting trained by their like wrist spin academy going down to Loughborough University and stuff.

1:16:00And he would ring me on a Monday and say how did he get on over the weekend? And I'd say, oh man, you know, like everything was it was I didn't bowl, I didn't part, you know, like these things didn't happen. And he'd get frustrated because I hadn't accumulated any experience, but I would feel relief. I would feel relief because I hadn't had to face the potential of failure. I was so unconfident in my own abilities that I would rather not have to face potential failure and inoculate myself from that by just not being not entering into the arena of play. So yes, I had an awful lot of limiting beliefs and that rolled forward into young adult herd, it rolled forward into relationships, rolled forward into business, it rolled forward into my sense of self, it was, I don't know, like I have had an awful lot of challenges with regards to self perception.

1:16:58And it's the whole mozzy thing, man. Like I wish I could come up with a different quote that we didn't make go viral a ton of times, but you need an undeniable stack of proof that you are who you say you are. Like if you want to be confident, give yourself some evidence, outwork the self doubt that you've got, outwork the imposter syndrome that you've got. You don't, if you're asking for confidence without competence and evidence, you're asking for delusion. You need to have something that proves to you that you are the person that you say you are. It's a rating over time, just doing things, trying new things, going out there, putting yourself out there on the arena floor seemed to work for me.

1:17:42Will Palmer, how do you deal with being the outlier when chasing that dream job while everyone else you know of going to a nine to five. In other words, dealing with the loneliness that will occur in the pursuit of a life that you want, my situation. I resonate, man, I feel for you. This is the price that you pay, right? Loneliness is a taxi. You have to pay to a tone for a certain complexity of mind or a complexity of life. If you want to have a life that's different to everybody else, you have to do things that nobody else is doing. If you do what everyone else does, then you're going to get what everyone else has got and separating yourself out from the pack.

1:18:16This is why most people find things difficult and this is where they stop and this is why they don't win. This is the point it's the difficulty that everybody else has to come over. Among a ton of other difficulties, they have to be able to see it. They have to have the intention. They have to have the discipline to go after it. They have to have all of the different things in place. And then when it starts happening and they realize, I'd be easier. I'd have more of a social circle if I just stuck about with my friends, that's also going to be one of the hurdles that people have to overcome. Accept and understand you didn't expect it to be easy.

1:18:51This is what hard feels like on the other side of this is something that you want. Did you expect it to be easy? No, this is part of the hardness. Lean into it. Lean into it. The sign that you are beginning to become more of an outlier is a signal that you're going along the right path, presuming that you're not an outlier because you're addicted to drugs or like beating of granny's on the street. You're an outlier because you're working harder, you're an outlier because you're taking a non -typical life path towards something that you care about. That is a good thing. It is not something that you should see as a negative.

1:19:30Hamzael Azawi, when will you have Iman Gadsie or Hamza Ahmed on the podcast, Chris, would love to see you speak to these men already had Hamza on the podcast search. Hamza, Chris Williamson and it'll come up. I'm also going to some creator retreat with Hamza in, I don't know where it is in a couple of weeks time. So we'll be together then. I don't know whether recording. I don't think we are. We just chilling out. Iman, I voice noted back and forth with him a couple of weeks ago and that's going to happen. I think in November. I mean, Dubai in November. So I'm going to have him on then. It's Harron Ram.

1:20:04How do you go about decidating men while not making them excessively dangerous, like burning down houses? Personally, I think it starts from education. We need to be encouraging boys to build businesses, participate in activities, and more extra curriculers. Every time I go to a high school or college, it's literally girl up, girl business, girl that, what would be a good starting solution? Very cool question. These are smart questions. Please comment more on the YouTube. How do you go about decidating men while not making them excessively dangerous? It's tough. It's tough because the fuel, the motivation that men have to go and do these things can very easily just be nudged toward anti -social behavior, right?

1:20:45Like, remember your bows? Remember like anti -s, like, as bows, there's this thing called anti -social behavior order that we had in the UK and it was all these sort of young working class and underclass guys in their teens who would wear Nike Max 90s and stand on the corner of streets and just cause bother and they were given these anti social behaviour orders as a disincentive. It was a way to stop this from happening. I would love to see the stats around that because I think that they'd have gone through the floor. It's really tough. I wouldn't disagree that encouraging boys and men to get involved in progressing and pursuing things that are genuinely going to make them feel fulfilled is a very cool place to start.

1:21:33I would also love to see culture repudestalize men's achievement. You know, not every man that achieves something is doing it from a place of toxic, tyrannical, patriarchal advantage. Some guys just worked harder to thing. And if you disincentivise men from going after hard things and contributing and achieving, what do you think are the sort of men that you're going to get? They're going to be listless, apathetic, they're not going to be interested in trying to achieve anything. And then you go to say, well, where are all of the good men at? Why are these men not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps?

1:22:13Why are they leaving education and employment at rates that we've never seen. One percent per month, 0 .1 percent per month is the retreat of men from the US labor force since 1950. Every single month since 1950, 0 .1 percent of men have retreated from the US labor force. Well, if you make the culture completely unaligned and unforgiving to men who do want to achieve things, who do want to acquire wealth or have ambition, And if you say that that's part of some awful, like misogynistic fucking vestige that's been passed down from previous generations, you're disincentivizing it. So what do you want?

1:22:51Do you want them to be listless and apathetic and spending whatever it is? Thousands of hours per year playing video games while smoking weed like Nicholas ever stacked tortoise? I don't want that. But on the flip side, you are gonna have some guys that are gonna go and do mean things because if they're spirited and full of energy and vigor, they're going to go and do other things. So balancing those two is tough, but I would say that we are way, way too far into the world of sedation than we are into the world of animation. Jordan, heward, congratulations, are there any plans on getting Andy Frizzella on the show?

1:23:28Andy Frizzella is the guy who founded first form and also created 75 hard for the people that are familiar with those things. We've spoken a good bit. He listens to the show. He's very complimentary on Instagram and is sent me some really nice messages. I think we've talked about getting him on money comes through Austin. So at some point, yep. Have you considered bringing on the channel a scientist slash expert that you don't necessarily feel completely aligned with in terms of views? Just to listen to a different perspective. I do. I try to bring on as many of these people as possible. Richard Betts from the IPCC.

1:24:00He is a lead author on a turn of the intergovernmental panels on climate change papers. He came on not a million years ago. He was really interesting David Pakman. He came on. He got flamed in the comments. He didn't really have a particularly good episode. But he's somebody that a lot of the audience disagrees with and would disagree with. I try my hardest to bring on people. I mean, I've had a couple recently of academics that are very left -leaning, but we they have such a unique spin that is apolitical on whatever their academic area is, that we don't actually get into maybe some of the more scruly world views that we would diverge on.

1:24:42So, yeah, I do try. Fun tivity, Colton. Have you ever been on a date worse than a mass -haged date with Zoe? If so, what happened? I just watched your season of Love Island to get some context about some things you talk about. Okay, yeah, so no, probably not, but then I also haven't been on many dates on TV. Actually, no, fuck that. I have the other TV show that I did take me out. I think that one might have been more awkward. The first TV show that I did, I jumped off a boat in the middle of the ocean when they didn't have insurance for me to jump off the boat because the date that I was on was that boring.

1:25:25And then the girl that I was on that date with, sold a story about me when I went on Love Island. The police were called on my date with Chris. Bitch, you weren't even there. I'd left. I'd gone to an after party. I was with some cool people. And then she sold a story about me that I told her. The only reason that the she knew about the police coming was because I told her. And the only reason that the police came was because I woke up on the central reservation of tenorief's largest motorway, having lost my phone and my wallet. It wasn't because I'd caused some havoc somewhere. I'd fallen asleep on a central reservation of the motorway.

1:25:58Anyway, yeah, that was worse. That one was worse. I can't remember the girl's name. I can't remember her name. And it just kind of looked a bit like Zoe. Weird. Some, was it physiognomy or whatever it's called? Where the way that somebody looks determines their personality, I think that's the way it works. Anyway, yeah, it was awkward. Jensen McKay. Hey, man, first of all, congrats on 900 ,000 subs. I've been watching you since your podcast with Christoph. Wow, that's old. My question is, as a 19 -year -old, you've been watching me since you were 15. Cool. As a 19 -year -old, heading to university in September, what is the best way of finding people as like -minded as me within the first week of Freshers?

1:26:36Struggled a bit during schools, I used to live in rural area. PS, what was your Freshers' week like? How did you survive it? Many thanks. Okay, so my Freshers week was ruthless. It was 2006. It was Larry British, loud drink culture. I had found a group of housemates. I lived in a flat with a bunch of degenerates that were fantastic, really, really great to go to uni with, but uni was second, third, fourth on the list of what everybody was there to do. Finding people that are like you during freshers, I would say, and this is something that I wish I'd done more of, attend more of the groups and societies and classes just join all of them.

1:27:18Like I remember when I went to uni and I thought ultimate frisbee sounds super lame. I don't want to go and do ultimate frisbee. I'm just going to go to the gym and get big with the boys. And again it was a safety net for me because it meant that it was routineized and it was something that I knew I was going to get social validation from. I remember in my mid -twenties I looked back and thought why the fuck didn't I go and do ultimate frisbee? That sounds awesome. Like ultimate frisbee sounds really cool. So I would join as many different societies as you can expose yourself to all of those different groups and just talk, talk to people and talk about what you're interested in.

1:27:52Don't talk about what you think they're interested in because if you talk about what somebody else, if you talk about what you think somebody else is interested in, you are going to get friends around you who aren't keen on you, they're keen on the role that you play. They don't like you. They like the person that you think, they like the person that they think that you are. That's not who you want to be. You're going to end up surrounded by a community of people who don't have your interests and who you have to play a lapping caricature of yourself to just be around. Be yourself. Do lots of different things.

1:28:28Expose yourself to as many people as possible. During fresh is the best thing to ask someone is, Hey man, what's your name? What course are you doing? What halls are you in? You can open up for the first four weeks of term. You can say that to a thousand people. See the ones that are interesting. Make friends. Good luck. Fabulin. How long did it take you to become comfortable recording yourself in front of a camera? I tried this for the first time recently and had no clue how hard it was to explain a coherent thought without stumbling over your own words. any tips on how to get better at self -podcasting.

1:29:06I'm glad I'm not glad that you were traumatized by it but I am glad that you have felt the discomfort and I remember the first few times that we started doing solo down the pipe monologue things like this. It is that whole there, that black void with the lens in the a terrifying thing to look at. It is so unforgiving and dark and you just stare at it and it stares back and it just expects you to say things and there's no one there to give you positive feedback or tell you that you're doing it right or that you're doing it wrong or that you should say more or say less, it's time to shut up or it's really difficult.

1:29:49I haven't spent all that much time doing solar stuff. I've spent a lot of time talking to other people and I think that my brain struggles to distinguish between the conversations I've had where there's been a person there, and now this thing, which is why there's no person there. The easiest ways, the best ways to get better at self -podcasting, I think, are to do what I'm doing here, which is to have a conversation, a one -way conversation with prompts, prompts can come from you. You could maybe even use chat GBT to say give me 20 interesting but accessible and easy questions to answer whilst practicing doing a podcast on my own.

1:30:31And I bet it would create some awesome, awesome ideas for that. But it's tough and I would be tempted to try and do podcasting before you do monologues because this is the final frontier. Like even when you're vlogging, right? You know, like the Mike Thurston style. Here I am, I mean, Dubai in my Jaguar or whatever the fuck it is that he drives now. That does prompt going on. Look at this, this is a cool cup of coffee and I'm here with my friends and I've got the whatever. This is the final boss man, this no distraction, silent room, you and a lens. It's super difficult and this skill is going to become more and more important.

1:31:14Friends that I've had have applied for jobs where they've had to submit video applications. and if you've never had to sit, and just put your phone in front of you, and say, hi guys, my name is Chris, and I'm really excited for the job opportunity at IBM. Here are why you should recruit me, and this is a blah, blah, blah, blah. If you don't have that in the tank, you're going to be behind, and if you do have it in the tank, you're going to find an advantage. And even if you don't need it, it's going to make you a better communicator. So I highly recommend learning it. Ahmed Zobar Sarosh, from Afghanistan.

1:31:46Fuck yeah. Let's go. Loving your content can't thank you enough mate. Thank you very much. My number one, Afghani fan. Question, how to find balance between time spent on being the least educated person in the room and the most educated, both are necessary. Good point and plays off the back of Alex Homozi's comment around more people are kept poor by their egos. They can get rich off them. Basically, if you're able to maintain an ego, it's because you're in a room where you're always the richest or the smartest or the most accomplished, which means that you're in a room which is too small, make your room bigger, make the people that you hang around with, more successful, which will make your ego smaller because comparatively with them, you're useless.

1:32:32Finding a balance, to be honest, I wouldn't agree that you need to be the most educated person in the room, ever, basically. I think that maintaining being a stupid person, the most stupid person in the room is a good idea. I mean, I've managed to make a career out of being the dumbest person in a conversation 640 times. And it seems to have worked okay for me. It is good to educate other people about things that you're a specialist in, but just continue to find people who you admire, who you respect, who you think have got a growth mindset and are interested and genuinely curious, and just allow them to teach you about all of the cool shit that they know.

1:33:14And then in response, you can teach them about the good stuff that you know. There is no better way to learn than that. And that's why Austin at the moment is phenomenal because there are so many people that are super, super smart in different domains. So you can be the guy that knows about evolutionary psychology, but they know about AI risk, or they know about meteorology, or they know about whatever. say car, congrats to us all. My question is how do you just do it? Like how do you stop overthinking and take action? That is quite an interesting question for Chris Pot. My question, my answer would be that you just need to commit to doing one thing.

1:33:56Narrow the domain, as I said earlier on, stop distracting yourself with lots of different things. What the fuck is he trying to respond to this? Chris Bott, how do you just do it? Like, how do you stop overthinking and just take action? I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it involves a lot of swearing and a few shots of whiskey.

1:34:17I, Chris Bott, confident bot over there, just getting out over his skis, poor guy. Stop overthinking and just take action, commit to one domain at a time. The reason that you're feeling overwhelmed is because you're trying to do too much at once. You're trying to optimize your sleep and your hydration and your training and your learning and your career and your relationships. One thing, one thing, folks on that get really good at doing that one thing and then move on to the next one. You have periods, you can periodize your life, right? One month to three months, each little block once you've completed it, then you move on to the next one.

1:34:51You can even plan it in advance. Check in every couple of weeks, see how you're getting on. There you go. I fraszy. My question is, what advice would you give to someone with disabilities and deformities to boost their confidence and self -esteem? So I've basically gave up on life because of my anxiety and depression. Your videos have been a big help and I want to say thank you. Thank you very much for watching. Look, I need to be able to identify where I'm at the boundaries of my competence and I think that this is it. I wholeheartedly believe that there is a strategy and that there will be, but I'm going to be pulling something out of my ass if I try and give it to you.

1:35:32I respect massively the fact that you're listening to channels like this and presumably other guests and similar people that come on here and you're exposing yourself to the right kind of content when it comes to getting really tactical with it. I would be bullshitting you if I said that I had a solution. However, I am confident that you have the right mindset to be able to find a solution. And I wish you all the best. Don't can disorderly. How many manhows of preparation do you do for each guest? You seem to have a good set of knowledge and ask insightful questions. Just seems like a lot of work goes into each episode.

1:36:06So yeah, it is there is a lot of work that goes into each episode. I'm going to ask Chris Pottsy if he knows how much work I do. He'll probably say that I'd it in a line of cocaine in five minutes. Ha! I wish I could tell you how many man hours I put into each episode, but the truth is, I don't really keep track. I just know that I'm always doing something to prepare for the next episode. Whether it's researching the guest, reading up on the topic, just thinking of interesting questions, I'm always doing something to make sure I'm ready for the next episode. That's like halfway between confidence, confidence bought in cookbott.

1:36:41It's usually about a day, so on and off listening to the guest, but it'll be spread out over a period of time, right? Usually takes around about a day or so. Sometimes less, you know, especially if it's someone that I know the topic inside out, it can be a lot less, but for the guys that knew and a lot of this stuff recently has been new, like learning about who I had this week. Video games, not bullying, cut down it. Body dysmorphia, men's muscle dysmorphia, and something else as well. That takes a lot of work. So I'm prepared because it's what works. And I'm following the strategy that I used to follow before or I knew all of the things that I know.

1:37:35And now I still follow the same strategy, even though I know a lot more things, which means I'm usually really, really well prepared for each episode. But I hope that it comes across and I hope that it makes the listening experience good because I'm not fumbling around and struggling for talking points. I want to keep it, you know, if you guys are gonna dedicate an hour and a half of your time to me three times a week, I want it to be high bang for your buck. I want it to come away and think, wow, that was, I mean, really, well structured and great. And there was no laws in there that didn't need to be in there.

1:38:08And yeah, I hope that it makes for a high ROI podcast. Roger Page, thank you for all the wonderful educational content you have produced. Thank you. My question is, when will you be adding video content to Spotify? This is a question that we've got a lot. And I don't know, to be honest, it's a bit of an effort. but to make this transition for some structural reasons behind the scenes of how you create the audio, you rip the audio from the video that would then distribute to places like Apple podcasts and Stitcher and Google podcasts and Amazon that wouldn't be using the video. So you'd need a video version for YouTube, a video version for megaphone to upload to Spotify, and then a different audio version that would go across everything else.

1:38:56There'd be three different versions of each episode, three times a week, And it's just a huge lift. If we change the way that we do ads, I really don't want to start doing mid -roll ads because I think it destroys the listening process, but maybe we're going to have to if we want to do video on Spotify. So it's just, it's a mess. It's a little bit of a mess at the moment. We have just changed hosting from Libson's Spotify. I announced this on Twitter the other week. And that's gone really well so far. But as of yet, not going to happen. maybe at some point in future. Not sure yet. Right, that is an hour and 45.

1:39:35I appreciate all of you, one million next, which will be wild. I have some plans, and I will see if I can pull them off. In the meantime, like I say, if you are the sort of person that asks these kinds of questions, if you enjoy this sort of discussion, which I know that you do, comment more on the YouTube. I would appreciate it. The real world of the internet, that this show is going to continue to push out into more. Those people need to understand what a well -balanced, thoughtful, interesting, meaningful conversation is, and it is you who can contribute to that, and you set the tone, especially if we're going to talk about releasing a discord server and community and all this sort of stuff.

1:40:16I need to feel confident that the people that are the most reasonable, that are all of the ones that submit thousands of questions on each of these Q &As are the ones that are going to pipe up and if you do post something that's stupid then you're going to get a ban. Anyway, I'll see you next time.