#896 - 3.25M Q&A - Marriage Plans, Beautiful Women & Chris Bumstead

26:22Steph Verhagan. Biggest thing you learn from C -Bum. Man, I learned, I've learned so much from that guy. He's been really formative to me, I think, an important rebalance against Hormosi's influence on me. It's like, C -Bum and Alex are the good angel and the bad angel sat on either shoulder like jacked as fuck angels. You know Alex is telling me stopping such a pussy just work harder deny your feelings. You don't need to feel them just keep going This is the challenge that your future self will tell us a story Chris is saying Embrace the way that you feel don't flee from your feelings tell other people open up don't work too hard spend time at the beach and And he, I've definitely been in a Seabum era, not a Hormosi Europe for probably the last six to 12 months or so.

27:15This is coincided with me, reflecting more about sort of what I want from life, certainly becoming more serious about wanting to have a family, wanting to settle down, wanting to set myself up for the rest of life, as in create the kind of cadence of living and working that I can do for a few decades as opposed to having to find something new to do. Like this is the thing, if you work really, really hard and you blow up as in get the big exit or achieve the level of success and you never need to work again or you've got some sort of a business that allows you to really, really step back, if you're a driven person you're just going to turn yourself inside out trying to find new challenges to do.

28:01and the other route, if you were, so that's if it goes right, but if it goes wrong, you're burned out and maybe kick yourself out of the game because you've damaged your health or you've damaged your motivation or you've lost passion for whatever the industry was that used to be in. So biggest lesson that I've learned from Chris is emotions to embrace them, to listen to them, and the bravery to be able to open up to a partner about them is, yeah, I mean, he's the king. He's the absolute king at it, so. Ricardo Pen -R tips for being more positive and optimistic, being less of a hater. That's a great question, and I appreciate that you asked it, because I think a lot of people revel in their negativity and being positive online is very rarely rewarded.

28:54If you look at all of the top comments, unless they're really funny, They're almost always like a piss take. It's either claptor, funny, genuinely, or some sort of a piss take. So tips for being more positive and optimistic, just be around people that are positive and optimistic. It's especially if it's a you turn in terms of values. You can try really hard and think about it, or you can just be around people like the person you want to be like. And that's a much quicker route, I think, to... it'll expedite because you're going to have the social pressure of these people being like that. And if you come in and they're always being positive about stuff and you just come in and you're disparaging and you take the piss and you're negative and you're back by tea, they're just not going to want to be around you.

29:42And you're going to feel so awkward. If you've got an ounce of social awareness, you're going to be so awkward. So you think, this isn't the vibe. This is a group that wants to big everybody up. And I keep coming in and saying these mean things and then you're going to have whatever that French word is for staircase regret, where you leave a party and you go, damn, I really should have been kinder when he brought up that new project he was working on. But I wanted to get this weapon. I wanted to make myself seem really cool. So I said this thing that sort of took the piss a bit, but no one really laughed.

30:12And I don't like me when I'm like that. So be around people like the person you want to be like positive and optimistic and Godspeed. Mike, at letter, you mentioned about your autoimmune problems once or twice, promised a full episode and disappeared with it. Can you please mention how you tackled it on the Q &A? Some of us suffer exactly from that and don't know how to fix it. Your help is much needed. Thank you. All right. Yeah. So being completely honest, the reason that I haven't done the big roundup to sort of explain what went on and what's going on is that it's still going on. And talking about a negative situation when it's not resolved doesn't make people listening feel hopeful, it makes them feel sad for you and as much as sympathy is very welcome.

31:12I don't know, it feels weird to, it feels weird to me to be, I don't know, does it come across as if I'm a woe is me, please look at help, I need some sympathy thing. I don't know, it just, it didn't feel right, it to talk about it until it is resolved, but it's been over a year now and it's still not. So long and short of it, got COVID 18 months ago, was living in a house that had toxic mold in, didn't know, turns out like 85 % of people that I've got EBV, Epstein Barbaris, which that got kicked off by the mold plus the COVID, then America is very unforgiving to immigrants. So the food system here just ruins anybody that wasn't born here.

32:10Although it's bad because you've been exposed to red 40 in blue three and you've got ADHD and autism, it's good because your stomach's used to them. But if you move here, you don't have those things, but your stomach has no idea what's hidden. And it's sure enough, two and a half years and two years in, like everybody else, every Mexican person that I know that's moved here. Uh, turn of gut dysbiosis, candida, rhpylori, sebo, roundworm, and liver fluke from fucking Africa, maybe, I don't know. Um, tinnitus, memory loss, mood dysregulation, sleep, I'm falling asleep at 8 o 'clock at night, 8 .30 at night, every single evening.

32:48Um, and it's like the most salient part of my entire life. The reason that I don't talk about it that much on the show apart from right now is it's a bit of a buzzkill. This isn't fun. You guys come here, I don't know, maybe you come here to find out about me, but presumably you come here for interesting conversations and a good vibe and a good hang and I don't know, I think I get worried about ruining that or not. Not being a professional or being a professional is sucking it up and delivering the doing what needs to be done in any case. And I'm proud that I managed to do that over the last year because it's not been superbly easy.

33:33And it's meant I've had to dial back a lot of workload, spend a ton more time and effort and money and thought cycles trying to fix it. But yeah, that's it. In terms of I tackled it the same way that everybody else will have done with binders and color styrimine and phosphatidylcholine and glutathione and red light therapy and so on as and ozone and high dose vitamin C IVs and a ton of other stuff and I will detail the whole protocol of Everything that I did but to be honest because I'm still like balls deep in it Maybe the worst I've ever been from a health perspective at least a felt health perspective even though we fixed a lot of those problems I'm hesitant to go and this is what I did because I also would go this is what I did and it's still an issue so.

34:29I don't know man I am sorry if it felt like I've opened the door and then abandoned everybody but that's not because I'm off dancing in the moonlight having a great time I hope that's useful. I'll have more stuff soon. We've tracked a lot of it with Macs, the videographer. So there will be I guess a semi -interesting vlog coming at some point, which will show me in various states of disrepair getting a lot of different treatments and in a good mood and in a bad mood and sad and all the rest of it. So hopefully that'll help. and if nothing else, just keep on keeping on getting up sleep. And I'll keep you updated.

35:20Blake, Alexander 925, what can the left do to win back young men? I mean, first off, stop castigating them, stop telling them that they're broken women, stop telling them that they are misogynistic and depressive and patriarchal and privileged because no group is going to be shamed or patronized or passive -aggressed into supporting your cause. So it's like, what can the left do to stop pushing men away, young men away, before they even and look to win them back. Now because they're actively pushing them away further and further. And then once they've done that, I think provide a positive vision for what young men could be.

36:15Like, what is it? You know, I saw this on Reddit somewhere. Maybe it was a Gen Z thread or something else. And somebody had asked people of the left assuming that you don't like and rotate Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan, who are some positive male role models that you can think of that you would agree, men should try to emulate. And it was, I think almost all of them were fucking fictional characters. It was like, arrogant from Lord of the Rings. And like some guy from a sitcom I'd never heard of. I think, right, if you're having to dig into fantasy novels and like romcoms in a desperate attempt or sitcoms in a desperate attempt to try and find role models for men that you can agree on.

37:07You need to do some more work because your criteria for an acceptable man is one that's so unrealistic you've had to turn to fucking fiction to make it happen. And uh, so that's it. Stop pushing them away. Stop calling them things that turn them off and provide a positive vision. I think if you just begin to do that, Scott Galloway. Scott Galloway understands the dynamic men's want for conquer and mastery and progression and to feel like they're contributing and to feel like they've valued young men like him. Who could have imagined? And the same thing I think needs to be done at large. Yeah. J .D .L.

37:49Mida 13, do you own any properties and or short term rentals curious about your investment strategies. So I do, I think six houses in the UK that I accumulated while I was there doing the nightlife stuff and that was classic 25 % down LTV, bitalettes, interest only mortgage, as opposed to an equity repayment. And they're just, you know, their student properties that wouldn't be given to families in any case. So I picked those up and still have capital gains still a little bit and they positive generate positive cashflow every month, but I'm gonna one wine those over the next two to three years because your boy got his visa renewed came back from Jamaica new visa new driver's license.

38:39and unless I actually mess up the USCIS can't get rid of me. So I'm here for three years. Given that, currently a dual tax citizen, which is a fucking nightmare and trying to, by the way, if you ever move to another country and you need to stop paying taxes in that country, unwind the investments in the main one if you can, if you can afford to live without them and if they're just small stuff, because straddling two different tax markets is, it's So, currently my personal house in the UK plus a bunch of others, but all of the other ones except for my one are going to be, let go of over the next few couple of years, probably.

39:19Ethan Stevenson, 418, what country has the most beautiful women? Ethan, that's the wrong question. Question you need to ask yourself is which country has the ugliest men? Because you don't need beautiful women. You need ugly men. If your question is pointing in the direction that I think it is, some areas that have an imbalance ratio, a female attractiveness to male -inattractiveness, would be a medine, when I went to medine, that was mind -blowing, that you have solid eight out of ten Latinas with at best five out of ten, balding, thinning on top, guys. I don't know what, maybe they're all super rich and I was in some area that I didn't really realize.

40:08Dubai, actually, but the problem there is that, again, you've got the rich thing and you actually are competing with oil, shake, new world order money. But a lot of beautiful women there, where else? Italy. It's got some pretty beautiful women in it. It's also got some beautiful men in it though. See? So you're fighting here. Need to find a place with ugly men and beautiful women. I think, yeah, I think Colombia is a good place to start.

40:46Yeah. Just get yourself off to Colombia. It'll be fine.

40:53Tara Shavon Ryan. What were the pants you wore at the Melbourne show asking for my BF? They were... Allo... The Allo. I can't remember the type of cargo pants that they are. I think they're discontinued. If you're in Melbourne, maybe you can get them, but in the US, I've tried to buy another pair, and they're discontinued. So, Trez Sand, but they were allo with a drawstring at the bottom. and I love them and I'm sad that they've been stopped. Beatniks, what's the biggest irrational fear that you have besides being unsuccessful?

41:31What's the biggest irrational fear that you have besides being unsuccessful?

41:44I guess not being enough or not being good enough. And I don't know who for I don't know energy that insufficient unwanted, the sense that you always need to prove yourself, you always need to sort of offer the world something in order for it to love you back. And, uh, yeah, I think the fear of not being enough has, uh, behind the scenes driven and awful lot of what I've done. And I think it's, it's very common for a lot of people. Uh, this fear of abandonment, sense of always sort of being on the outside. It's like a rational fear. It's the sense that someone's mad at me, and I don't know why.

42:58Very familiar with.

43:03The weird thing is that it is potent fuel to drive you to go and do some pretty magnificent things, but it's toxic if you use it for too long. So I'm working hard at trying to switch from diesel to electric in that regard. Carlton K, how do you deal with your energy levels? Fucking with difficulty, bro, right now, because I fall asleep at 8 p .m. at night, which makes me frustrated and sad and bitter, and I feel like life's passing me by in many ways, even if I've had a great day, even if I've done things. So, I struggle at the moment and I'm going to keep working until the back. You know, it's so strange.

43:54You're talking to somebody who would work until two or three or four in the morning, running club nights and then drive back from Manchester and get in at 5 .30 in the morning and then wake up at 10 and go and train. And now, if I haven't had 10 hours in bed, I feel like I've been hit by a train. And if I have any travel, it's rough. It's really rough. So how do I deal with my energy levels? I don't know, poorly, I suppose. And I will tell you once I've fixed them, and I will stay awake for 48 hours, and I will dance over the grave of this whiny little monologue that I've done. Actually, no. It's putting out three shows a week, sustainable long term, even if you were doing what you love.

44:38Well, we're five years deep into three a week, and I'm still holding on. So there is a bit of me that wonders if two a week would be better in some ways. The main reason now that I do two, the reason I went from two to three was it was COVID and I figured it would be a good opportunity to keep me busy and also no one had any friends because we were all isolated in the house. So it was a chance for me to make people feel less alone by going from Monday Thursday to Monday Thursday Saturday. Now the reason I do it is if you run weeks times episodes, I have 150 -ish spots a year. That's not that many people.

45:20And there's 2 ,000 people that I want to speak to. So if I go from 150 to 100, even though the workload is easier, the sense that there's an interesting person I want to speak to, fuck, I don't have a slot, that's going to hurt. But so I don't know. There is a bit of me that thinks holding it three a week is tough. It probably another five years would be the gas tank would start to dwindle a little. But then another bit of me thinks, but look at how much motivation you get from speaking to another 50 % on top of 100 more people than you would do if you only did two. So it's a balance and you will see I'm not gonna be able to hide it if I go to two you'll know So I'm scared to ask for more even though I know I deserve it, but shaking things up scares me Beautiful sentiment so interesting.

46:22I think advocating for yourself learning to be assertive believing that your needs are worthwhile and Not subjugating your desires in order to keep other people happy or so that you don't make a fuss or something is super common. And it's change, which is scary, shaking things up scares me. It's going to require change, it's going to require maybe other people will reject you, maybe they'll think that you're entitled. but in Newcastle there's a tagline, like a colloquial saying that shy bands getting out and it means shy people don't get anything i .e. if you don't ask you don't get and at the end of your life no one is going to give you any applause or gratitude for saying she never made a fuss it's just not going to happen You can live an unterbulent life of sort of quiet, resentful subjugation.

47:37Or you can still be just as polite, just as loving, just as caring, and you can have boundaries and you can set standards for yourself and for the people around you. and I'm scared to ask for more even though I know I deserve it. Got it. Please, please, just tomorrow try and ask for something. Just a little thing, whatever it is, just a little thing. Ask for whatever more it is that you think that you need. And the bottom line is, it sounds like you're doing this with somebody else as well. Somebody else, something else, an organization, a person, a partner, a dog, I don't know. know, if that other entity isn't prepared to help you, even if they know that you deserve it too, why would you, if this person isn't prepared to help you, why would you sacrifice yourself just to keep them happy?

48:29It's like, I deserve this. I would like this. It would make my life better and it would make me happy. No, you can't have it. Okay, no worries. In that case, I'll hurt myself by putting your needs ahead of mine. Please enjoy the rest of your life. No way, no way. Assertiveness, politeness, firmness, boundaries, very, very important. I hope it helps.

48:56Solimanowa. What proportion of your success do you believe came from luck, market, charm, etc. at least a good bit of it. I think if I was starting now it would be significantly more difficult. Have you ever seen those Indiana Jones movies and he's running for the door and the big wall is coming down and he slides underneath and then he reaches back and he grabs his hat and he pulls it in. That's kind of like from a timing perspective what I feel like with the world of podcasting, that if you look at really the only other shows that came after me that have been comparable in terms of size, have been Stephen Butler, Hubertman, and Sean Ryan, I think, apart from people that already had big platforms and then sort of pivoted them or converted them in one way or another.

49:46So timing, yeah, definitely. look, charm, I'm not convinced that my charm has helped all that much. Looks, unfortunately, don't help really at all when it comes to the audio side of podcasts. You have to remember, we do more plays on audio than we do on YouTube. So I don't know. The pretty privilege doesn't, it's like the face for radio thing. It's not a massive draw. People are just listening to you. We've only just put video on Spotify, what, three weeks ago. So, but all of that being said, it's a balance. It's the same as everything. If you do not take shots at goal, if you're not consistent, you can guarantee that any residual luck of market and charm and whatever isn't going to be captured.

50:33So, yeah, many legs up, some that I have seen, some that I wouldn't have done probably, but also I feel, you know, Firm in my foundation of saying, well, I think I deserve this too. Alan Tune, seeing all the Lilly Philips and Bonnie Blue News is so depressing. What is your reaction to them? All right, yes. I mean, I haven't done a, oh my god, Lilly Phillips is sleeping with a thousand men in one day, bro. These slots are cooked. I haven't done this. makes me pretty sad, to be honest. The main emotion that I feel is sadness. It does feel a little bit like anyone who is highly critical of and rotate from a cultural perspective and an influence perspective, but not highly critical of Lily Phillips and Bonnie Blue from a cultural influence perspective, I would be interested to know how they square that circle because it is the criticism that allodged at Tate are that he is all of the worst parts of toxic modern masculinity and you really should, I think, keep the same philosophy, the same level of scrutiny and the same standard when you're looking at lily philips and Bonnie Blue.

52:05Like, is this not the most sort of extreme version of modern, liberated toxic femininity using body for sex? Basically being treated like you're allowing men to masturbate with your bodies and then sort of proclaiming it as liberation whilst crying. I don't know, it makes me sad, dude, and I can't say anything that hasn't already been said. But it is depressing and it makes me feel, it does. It makes the primary emotion that I take away from it is sad. And it's a bit dour. And I mean, if the guy who's whining about his fucking autoimmune problems thinks that what you do is sad, that's the worst review that you can get.

52:49Daniel Morgan won. Having done the live show in London as your view on the UK being counterproductive to ambition or success from tall poppy syndrome changed. You seem to have had a very positive reaction when you were there. I did have a very positive reaction when I was there. And, um, no, unfortunately, no, it hasn't because there is always going to be these sort of kernels of inspiration and fire even in sort of really cold tundras. And, um, I was amazed. We did, the show was so fantastic. The audience was so amazing. Everyone was so attentive, so respectful. for the vibe was exactly, I would have gone for a coffee with anybody in that entire auditorium, three and a half thousand people.

53:31And then everyone at the meet and greet had cool things to say. And I, I've got this book, I brought you a book, and I've traveled with this book around the world. It was fucking amazing. But those are the outliers that prove the rule in the UK. The reason that they are in the room, apart from the fact that they're fans of the show, one of the reasons that they're in the room is that there's nowhere else for them to go in the UK. And it's the same all over. This isn't just a UK thing, right? It was the same in Australia, went out to Australia, everybody lonely chapter, leaving friends behind. People wanting me to do the normal Trotten Path, even though I know I don't want it.

54:06We had the same in Dubai, a place that people moved to because they're already upward aiming and people still had that there. In Canada, we had that in the US, we've had that. But the UK has it, it's like ground zero for this. And very positive reaction, but it's a minority of people. So when we do glass -to -breed -sized stages and there's half a million people, then I'll say that it's become a mass movement. But for now, it's just an underground cult of people wanting to try and make their lives better because there's not really anywhere else for them to go. Big Bob 677, what is the proper balance between having social life and not drinking and smoking constantly?

54:48I think you can tell what I'm going to say here. You don't necessarily have to drink and smoke constantly to have a social life. If you don't want to drink and you don't want to smoke, but you do want to be social, and the only friends that you have to be social with want to be around you, if you're drinking and smoking constantly, you need to get better friends. You need to get different friends because they're not in the same place that you are. And this is one of the saddest exactly what I was just talking about. Lonely chapter, leaving friends behind it can't grow at the same places you don't want to grow in the same direction as you.

55:22You, you need to have people around you like the person you want to be like. It sounds like you don't want to drink and smoke constantly. It sounds like the social life you have revolves around that. You need new friends. Or you need to get really, really selective with the ones that are there and say, hey man, I don't want to drink or rip a dart for the next three months. Are you in? Can we do this together? Will you do this with me? And you will always sort of regress back to the mean. What this and the mean is going to be the person that's the most degen, the person that's taking the easiest path.

56:01If you're on a diet and you live in a house with two other guys and both of them get take away every Saturday and Sunday, It's going to be really rough. But if you are trying to die and you live in a house with two guys who are already dieting, it's going to be a piece of piss. So yeah, you need to change your circle.

56:22Rossi Janney. Congrats, Chris, well deserved and thank you for your fantastic content. Thank you. Question, how do you find your thing in life, workwise? Sometimes I envy the people who have known since they were a child to become a doctor or a pilot, since I seem to struggle to get a grip on anything. My problem is that I get super into something and feel like it lasts for a few days or a week and then come up with a new thing again. My ultimate goal would be to just enjoy my time not to reach for fancy things. At the moment, I have a decent job, but everything feels too normal and sort of boring.

56:52Yeah, I feel this sense of envy towards people that kind of had that path because when when you know that you've got drive, but you're permanently being distracted and you're grasping and you're moving between lots of different things, it feels like... It feels like all four tires of the car going as fast as possible, but in opposite direction so you don't actually move. You know that you've got fuel inside of you and the capacity to go and do something, but because it's not being pointed in the right direction, you end up going kind of nowhere and that's really frustrating. So first off, accept the fact that that's frustrating and give yourself a little bit of a pat and the back.

57:34Even if it's a champagne problem luxury issue, it's difficult. It's difficult to deal with. And you're not the only one. This isn't a personal curse that's just been bestowed on you. This is as far as I can see an endemic part of being an individual who is maybe competent at a bunch of different things and also interested in lots of different things. And that is something to be proud of. That's something that you can use. Now the issue with you getting super into something and feeling like that lasts for a few days or a week, that is one of probably two things. First one is a planning problem that there is some hurdle that you come up against that was unforeseen.

58:16You really wanted to get into Thai boxing. You really wanted to get into playing pickleball or you really wanted to get into salsa dancing. You really wanted to start a business or you really wanted to start vlogging or whatever. You didn't foresee some issue with one of those things structurally, operationally in terms of the way that it's implemented into your schedule or what it's going to take out of you or the sacrifices you're going to have to make. So maybe you can get around that from planning perspective. Sit down. Here's my inspiration. I'm excited, but hold on. What are the prices I'm going to have to pay?

58:43How I'm going to make sure that I can keep it this. Then the second part would be just not being distracted and actually committing and using some discipline. So if you decide this is the thing I'm going to do, set a time. I would suggest 30 days and then I would suggest three months. Those would be the two blocks. Something that's a bigger commitment, like something that has longer term sort of validity, creating a sub -stack, let's say that you want to write. Maybe I should be a writer. I've always kind of liked writing. I'm going to start a sub -stack. You need to do that once a week for the three months.

59:20But if it's, I'm going to try out Barry's bootcamp, or this new workout class, or something. You can probably get away with doing that once a week for four weeks and then go, Barry's wasn't it, but maybe Orange Theory or maybe Solid Core or maybe whatever, CrossFit, BGJJ. You can move through those things more quickly, but say yourself a time and don't quit before that. Plan, use the enthusiasm to build the plan, doesn't need to be super complex, just what would make this succeed, what would make this fail, why do I want to do it, three questions? Next thing, commit to a time. Minimum of one month, up to a maximum of probably six months, I would suggest three months, reassess at the end of that.

1:00:03And don't change and don't stop. Henry 6595, do you travel for work often? Seems like you're always on the move. Yeah, you know, that's the additional level of pain on top of all of the stuff from the last year is It's so much travel and it's fun and I love it and it's amazing and I've got to see Australia and Montana and and and Dattlenburg and Miami and Florida and all of these different places. But it is energy sapping and I mean the people that like comedians working comedians who by the way I don't know whether you've realized this I only realized this recently. The way that comedians in the US do a domestic tour, they don't run a tour like a band does, because when you're in a band, in order to be able to sort of set up the stage, all of the staging, the lighting, all of that, and because presumably there's quite a few of you together, they need to batch together the tour.

1:01:09So it tends to be, you know, between two weeks and two months long, and it's essentially back -to -back shows or one -on -one off, something like that. Comedians at least in the US will go Friday Saturday or maybe Thursday Friday Saturday, every week for 20 weeks. So there's this sort of weird, weekly cadence that they've got. So for them, my point being, that's rough. But yeah, it's been a lot of travel and it's exciting and I love it and it's also energy sapping and when you're at home you want to be traveling and when you're traveling you want to be at home and it is the inevitability of life.

1:01:52Travis Manning 9682, what's your training split looking like now? So I am following RP Strength. You can go to RPstrength .com slash modern wisdom and they've got a discount. It's the way I've trained for over a year now. I just do what the app says. I've got a PT that I work with three days a week. So I follow along with him and this session's a roughly sort of a push per leg this she split. Kind of like that. And I love it and I've done it for over a year now. And my gains have been the best that they've been in probably a decade. So all hail, Mike Israel and go to rpstrength .com slash monowism.

1:02:38JN Agoston 436. Relationship question. I love my girlfriend. She's super cute, funny and kind. However, she's not intellectual at all. They regret that she doesn't want to slash can't have deeper or more complex conversations sometimes. Some days, I think it's not a big deal. Other days, the thought to reappear. I don't know if I'm overthinking things and I want to feel like my relationship has to be perfect. Not sure how to navigate this. Any advice is deeply appreciated. PS, thanks for doing what you do. My life has improved considerably since finding your content. Thank you. And dude, fair play for asking this question because the first off you've asked it publicly and secondly, you know that it's something that's sort of playing on your mind.

1:03:20So you're obviously reflective. This basically comes down to what do you want to prioritize. So there are no solutions in the world of relationships. There's only trade -offs. I mean, maybe there is the absolute perfect, funny, cute, kind, and intellectual girl who speaks your language, lives in your area is available right now. If the right age wants the same life outcomes that you do, all of those things. but you need to ask yourself, given the fact that that's not certainty, you're not always going to necessarily trade up. You're probably just going to swap familiar problems for unfamiliar problems.

1:04:02And it's like a, it's playing Blackjack, right? You're going to stick it or you're going to hit. Well, you know, you've got a 17 or whatever. Fuck, you have it, I could get a 21 or I could get a 20. and you don't know. So I guess what it comes down to is how important is having deep and complex conversations to you. One thing I would say is marriage as far as I can tell is an unmarried, never married person who wants to be married. Marriage is one long conversation.

1:04:42What you are basically You could spend 20 ,000 hours speaking to and not get bored because that's what your marriage is going to be. Your marriage is going to be one huge fuck off podcast that never gets broadcast anyway. And you need to make sure that you can have a conversation that does not get tiresome, no matter how long it goes on for. You want somebody who you can open up to about the most difficult, darkest parts of your life. If your relationship should feel like home, it should be a safe harbor for you.

1:05:23I don't know whether if you have all of the things you can open up, you feel safe, you're reassured, your nervous system is dialed, you never feel dysregulated, she's understanding she adores you, she worships the ground that you walk on. But we don't really feel that fight up about the conversation that we have. That's a fair trade to make to get rid of it. But you need to ask, what do you prioritize most?

1:05:51Because it's one of those trades that you don't get to have a store credit for. You can pull the pen and then get it back. At least you can't get it back the way that it was. So it's an irreversible decision. So think wisely, work out how important it is. But also consider that this is a, it's one long emotional regulation scenario with a conversation attached to it. And you need to make sure that you got both of those things. Wa Pa, how have you dealt with cutting out friends from childhood? Do you have certain regrets around it? In fact, I'm so hard. I'm going to have to take this hoodie off.

1:06:37What a wisdom much, not yet available. How have you dealt with cutting out friends from childhood? Do you have certain regrets around it? I have zero friends before the age of 18. Zero friends, no one that I'm particularly close to. some of the people that I played cricket with from my old club, I don't think I speak to a single person that I went to school or college with still. So that would be at all of my formal education until the age of 18 and maybe a few people from the sport that I played. As soon as I went to uni, a bunch of those people come along for the ride but I don't know. I have no regret around it at at all, I didn't particularly enjoy my time in school.

1:07:30I wasn't made to feel particularly welcome in school. And I have no desire to revisit

1:07:38the that world. There was nothing for me when I was there.

1:07:45So going about, oh yeah, check this out. I have, there's no reason for me to go back to it. So for me personally, but I understand that that's a a slightly non -typical situation. So, no. Alan Wickst did 91992. Have you ever bitten off more than you can chew workwise? Literally my entire working life, probably from the age of 19 to 19 six months into uni, probably from then until about six months ago, so a full you know, 17 years or something, I permanently bit off more than I could shoot. I rode the threshold of burnout for you know the best part of two decades and maybe some would say, Well, have you considered that might contribute to the way that your health feels at the moment?

1:08:46You'd probably be right. So, you know, whatever. But it's common. You're a type A person. You want to maximize your time in this planet. You don't want to fuck about. You want to make a dent. You're going to bite off more than you can chew. That being said, do it in your 20s and a bit of your 30s. I'm working out how hard you can work. I know that you've got that in the tank and if the shit hits the fan, you can get back to doing it. But after a while, at least in my experience, and you know, this has kind of been brought on by the chronic awareness of my own work mortality by having my capacity severely diminished over the last 12 months.

1:09:22That fuel kind of starts to run out and you realize that the dopamine you get from just being busy doesn't necessarily move you toward the life that you want. that what you're doing is your healing existential loneliness and a need to feel important and a need to feel like you're making progress by being busy but not doing things that matter. And that's a very dangerous situation to be in because you can create an addiction to the dopamine of pressing enter on the email and none of the emails that you've sent for the last hour actually move you any closer to the life you want. They don't actually even do anything for the business that you're working on or the project that you're trying to achieve.

1:10:08They've just kept you busy. And sure, there's worse ways that you can distract yourself with drugs and junk food and stuff like that. But don't mean to hell with the drug as well. So, yeah, be careful with it. J -J -J -J -J -J -Zander Revens. How do you feel about turning 40 soon? I'm 36. Okay, it's not soon, 37 next month, 36. Okay, I'm gonna be like David Brent in the office where he's going, 30s, I mean my 30s. It's not soon, okay, got ages. Unless you that guy asking about my wife, I don't have. Isaac Rogue, what are the plans with Newtonic? Okay, I had no new skews. I don't wanna make normal products, right?

1:10:53James wanted the focus, But people might think that the conversations that me and James have on the newtonic marketing are all for show or something. That's it's perilously close. It's maybe like selected a part of the, you know, specifically, but it's perilously close to our real working relationship. And he wanted the focus planned because you can't get the decans in Australia. So you wanted to drink in Australia. I'm a huge fan of the brain capsules. Those brain capsule tablets, the red pills, are fucking money. I think, you know, the cans are amazing, and they're always going to be amazing, because we worked so hard on the taste, and they're enjoyable, and all the rest of it.

1:11:35But caffeine -free, I challenge anybody to put something in their mouth that makes them feel better, that is legal. Those brain capsules are phenomenal. I just don't want any new skews, because my point being, if I have wind, and talked about that, I don't overconfuse what we are as a company. we are brain health company. We are productivity, performance and focus, right? But cognitive. We don't need anything else. We don't need a suppository. We don't need a sniffable powder. I would be down for doing a zin style pouch, because I think that would just be funny, but that would be a joke product.

1:12:11That wouldn't be a real product. And I just want to really, really dial in. We are going to do a raise. So we're going to be raising some some capital because we want to go to retail in the UK and in the US. It's not cheap. Unfortunately, cans cost just an absurd amount of money. The margins on them are awful, which means you need tons of cash in order to be able to get the stock order in order to be able to put the stock into the retailers in order for them to be able to sell it in order to get more cash back in order to be able to grow. And you can do it by bootstrapping. It's going to take you forever.

1:12:41So we're going to get an injection of cash, which means we're going through valuations and we're doing pitch decks and all this other stuff. And largely, I'm not involved. I get kind of wheeled out to sell the dream, but the coming up with the figures and all of that, I mean, I have input. I guess I could contribute something useful if I was asked, but I don't know about like annual EBITDA or an annual run rate to give multi multiplicatives and stuff. It's not my, it's not what I do. So that's a plan with Newtonic. Put it into retail. I want to do a variety pack by the end of the year. So we'll probably release at least one new flavor on the cans.

1:13:17And then that would mean that we could do a four pack, one of each four flavors, variety pack by the end of the year. And I think that'll be awesome. The peach mango and the mixed berry on the focus blend, the stick packs, great awesome flavors. We've got one more flavor that we might release with that and then brain capsules are just money. And I just keep on using those. So yeah, between those, keep growing. Get one people on board. We've got subscriptions now. You can get discounts. We've got cool welcome gifts and stuff coming So just do that and keep making cool marketing. So I love the marketing for it Uh, uh, an inside story When will you have someone on to talk about non -violent communication?

1:13:59I believe you said it's the best example of the worst branding I don't remember saying that but I agree with me non -violent communication is terribly branded because the Well, what's implied is that all other communication is violent, which may be true. I mean, who knows, but I probably need to learn a little bit more about it. I got sent, I've been doing like a really deep dive into relationship dynamics recently. So stand, tatkins, your brain on love, this is your brain on love. Fucking awesome. And then from that, I got conscious loving suggested to me. and I think that conscious loving is half a step away from nonviolent communication or at least nonviolent communications included in that.

1:14:41So I need to do quite a bit of research. Alongside all the reading to do for the show, that's like more, more, more, more on top. But I'll get there. And I feel like nonviolent communications kind of like the CBT of the relationship world. It's quite evidence -based, at least from what I can tell, evidence -based, very well regarded, people are impressed with it. But just fucking awful brand and I haven't got ran to it yet. So hold on tight. Oliver, Oliver Nore Grove. Chris, how, if at all, has your personal money management improved over the years? I think the only thing that I've been particularly good at when it comes to money management is I don't have a big, I don't have extravagant spending habits.

1:15:29I'm not a particularly showy person. I like nice things, but I'm talking about nice things like any pair of trainers or a nice car, but not an insane car or a coffee where I don't have to look at the price tag. I don't tend to have particularly expensive tastes. I guess the other side has been, even if investing, managing money is in putting in places and moving in around in ETFs and all this stuff, even if that hasn't been super dialed, I've just worked sufficiently hard to accumulate money. And I don't have, I'm not a credit card points optimizer, I'm not a cashback guy, I never have been that sort of stuff just feels like homework to me.

1:16:13And I've always felt guilty about not doing it like I should, you know, like if I care about my net worth, I should be maximizing all of these different opportunities to do it. And I didn't do it when I was poor and I still don't do it now. So, um, I guess I fought more guilty previously, but you can only prioritize on so much stuff one time. Um, honestly, the 90 % of my investing strategy comes from Morgan House, which is just dollar cost average into the S &P 500 and leave it for a few decades. So he was the guy I trusted him. So I've just followed that since I spoke to him four years ago or something, I don't know how much I've gotten the S &P now, but it's gone up.

1:16:57So more, hopefully, I guess, Ben Boyd mindset has anyone farted on a modern wisdom podcast. Maybe Jordan Peterson from all that stake. I think Jordan's actually very far down the list from that because of how clean the pipes are going to be. I mean, like, regularly I can, but I have the opportunity to mute my microphone. So sometimes Dean, I will have to puddle a little note in like 24 minutes 30 seconds mute my mic if I forgot to But I can mute it for the guest but it doesn't mute the local recordings so sometimes Dean's version So he has had a laugh on particularly gassy days, but I don't think so Mark Norman burps a lot, but apart from that not much gas Simone T -T -LUKA.

1:17:46Your channel is slowly but surely changing my life for the better. It's awesome to see you have so much fun doing what you love. I come to you to educate myself and this prompted my question. How do you handle it when an expert you're talking to directly contradicts another expert you've spoken to? Which do you believe and why? I found it important to have accurate knowledge of topics discussed in case it comes up in social conversation. Thank you so much, Chris. Well, I appreciate that. And if you're working very hard, so that you can have good social conversations. You sound like you should become friends with the bloke that wants to stop smoking, because I think he needs that.

1:18:22Look, no two experts agree, even the ones that train together. They're all gonna have different perspectives. Direct contradiction becomes more difficult because if someone says you should be vegan and others says you should be carnival, those are diametrically opposed and you can't do them both. Unfortunately, this is where you, as the audience and me, as essentially a member of the audience as well. I'm an audience member of the audience to my own show. This is the show I made this for myself. And you know, bring on guests that I ask questions to that I want to know the answers of. You need to do some discerning.

1:18:56Well, does this fit me? Does fit my life? Is that the sort of person that I am? Perfect example of this. Dry Creek, Dwayne, and David Goggins. Dwayne literally said, I see myself as the anti -David Goggins. Goggins obviously sees himself as like Goggins is dark Goggins. So okay, which direction do you want, Western man? Do you want cowboy wisdom with cigar in hand? Who will be happy that he just didn't mess something up today? And that would be the total accomplishment of his 24 hours? Or do you want ancestral trauma endurance running until your knees bleed, man? And you have these two options, right?

1:19:36But it's for you. Yes, when we're talking about science and health and sleep. Should it be a little bit less open to interpretation? Mostly, but what you should be trying to draw out of it and what at least what I try and draw out of it is okay Where is this relevant to me? What are the underlying dynamics that go on? Okay? Is fasting actually better than going keto? Well, what you're trying to do is calorie restriction and I don't actually like avocado that much and I don't like it when I have that much fat because it kind of makes me feel a bit bloated or whatever. So maybe I'm going to try to intimate and fasting thing.

1:20:10Both of them could be true. Even if the the mechanisms that their proponents are suggesting are a little squirrely and maybe they're getting out over the skis a bit, there needs to be some filtering. The BBC dragged Bartlett about this about a month ago, having experts on the contradict to each other or said things that signs disagrees with and stuff like that. Look, there's a threshold that you can reach where your size and the claims being made by people become ridiculously egregious. Has Stephen reached that? I'm not sure. But it's so patronizing when those kinds of stories come out because it treats the audience like they're brain dead morons.

1:20:54You're smart people. If you sit through the sort of episodes that go out on this channel, you're a smart person. You can think for yourself, you're discerning, you don't need me or the BBC to fucking spoon feed you what you should think. That's the entire reason that the independent creator economy started so that you can pick and choose. And if you don't like it, you can go to a different channel. You go, you know, it is like, I don't think that this is, I don't agree with this and this isn't for me. You're like, ah, I don't agree with that. But it's really interesting that I've learned about it.

1:21:30It's stuff one. It's stuff one. I would love there to be just a one -stop shot IMDB rating of the accuracy of what everybody's done. But there isn't. The positions that scientists and health experts and everybody else has are going to contradict each other. It is your job to try and be discerning as best you can. David Barresti, When you started out what vision did you have for yourself and the channel and how did you get through the first few months? Dude the first few months I was fucking flying. All I wanted to do was record the show. I was thinking about it 24 -7. It was early 2018 I Think I'd just gone through a breakup So I had that I had that like post breakup resentment energy and I was I was having a great time.

1:22:22I would locked in routine, daily routine, reading. It was great. I had no vision for myself on the channel. I just wanted to learn about myself in the world around me. And that's largely what I think everyone's pet project should be. What do you want to see in the world? Make that. And you just don't get bored. I didn't do it for plays. I've never done it for that. So it was easy. We weren't getting any in. I didn't care. Ethan Powers, congrats. Thank you. Would you be interested in the calendar being 13 months of 28 days instead of what we have. Does that work? What is 13 times 28?

1:23:06364, holy fuck.

1:23:11So you'd have 13 months of 28 days and 1 month of 29. Imagine if you did that with February. 13 months of 28 days. I actually really like that. I never even thought about that as a potential. All of the extra two and three days you get on top of 28 would allow you to have another month. And it would align most months with a four week cycle. Fuck, this is good. This is really good. I could start, I could start an entire new campaign around this. This might be my thing. You might have just given me my new identity. 13 months of 28 days is 364 days. I'm down, Ethan. I'll stand there on the battlefield with you.

1:24:05I think it would mess up quarters. Quartus would be a nightmare. And halves would be a nightmare. But weeks into months would be a piece of piss. Anyway, I'm on board and I can't believe that it's taken me nearly 37 years to realize that 13 times 28 is 364. Cal Knox, what's your exit plan when it all goes south? Oh man, I don't know. Fucking masturbate furiously until I die of heat exhaustion, I don't know. We'll see. My current plan is sort my health and have more fun. If I get to the end of this year and I've done that, the show is going to do what the show is going to do. The newsletter, the writing, all of that stuff, I think will take over perfectly fine.

1:24:55I need to focus on me this year and just not let the stuff drop, not say anything stupid, not get myself in trouble. I think all of that will go great. I got so many amazing guests. like literally all of the dream guests I've ever wanted lined up for the rest of this year. So I'm not really thinking exit plan. I'm kind of, to be honest, I'm kind of in survival mode at the moment, so just not looking too far ahead. Sloth, ruptured my Achilles seven weeks ago, any tips on how to get back to normal activity, running sports, everyone I speak to says it'll never be the same. Everyone you speak to is a fucking prick.

1:25:32My Achilles is as good, both of my Achilles are equally good and I had a complete detachment. So don't listen to them. Read Art of Resilience by Ross Ejli, Obstacle is the way by Ryan Holiday and watch the documentary resurfaced with Andy Murray. That's my three car garage for you. Two bucks can listen to both Obstacle is the way in Art of Resilience by Ross and watch that documentary, follow a plan, find a physio, stick to the plan, do not fuck about, eat lots of protein, some additional collagen will help, and just don't stop. And in 12 months time, you'll be able to look at all of those people that said that you couldn't get back to normal, and you can stick your middle finger up at them as you run away.

1:26:22Perfectly functional. Jack Montagu, what is enough? A poignant question given when somebody asked what my biggest fear was earlier on. Probably not the best person to ask, I guess. I don't know man, humans are not designed to be happy, we're designed to be successful. and success is chasing things, resources, status, money, partners, reputation. So, I don't know, but I hope to find it. And it's just got to be a state of mind, right? Like the only way, as Morgan Housel says, the only way to win the game is to stop moving the goalposts. So yeah, you need to it's unrealistic to suggest that you're gonna reach some you can discount any Worldly success doesn't matter at all Just go live in a tree in the woods man and you'll be fine.

1:27:26You don't need anything like what social creatures We need validation. We need to achieve shit. Okay, but we don't need to achieve like Bayes are shit Bayes are something to achieve there. You should look at people who are very successful with more pity than you do envy. What is it that's inside of them that's driven them to do that? Look at how complex and involved your life has had to be in order for you to feel like you are enough. And sure, some people are driven by this beautiful pole of just maximizing their sense of self, but most people aren't. Most people are driven by fear of not being enough.

1:28:03Need validation. I want the world to love me, and I'm not sure it's going to love me, So I'm gonna make it need me and need is close enough to love. So I think it's a state of mind that I haven't got to. Elle Kali, I heard you mention about your bladder training or retention in a podcast recently. I need to shut the fuck up about everything, especially health stuff. Could you go into more detail about how you've done this as I have to get up in the night and have done so, have done for so long. I would much appreciate it. Okay, apparently I've talked about that. So, during Covid, I noticed that I was going to the bathroom more frequently.

1:28:48I went to see my GP in the UK and he laughed and I thought, is it fucking funny? Something funny to you. He said, you wouldn't believe how many men have come into see me that have got the same thing. And it's my pet theory that what had happened was working from home, closer to the kitchen tap, drinking more water with no boss looking over your shoulder and no structured timeline of when you're supposed to work and when you're not meant that you drank more, went to the bathroom more frequently, and you can detrain the valve that kind of sits at the bottom of your bladder. So basically you have this pressure gauge inside of your bladder, and when it gets to a certain level, it says, hey, you need the bathroom.

1:29:30But if you go very frequently, you detrain that down so that it thinks you need to go when you still got bags of room left on your bladder. Bad idea. They put me on anti -colonurgics that help to get that muscle to chill out. I stopped caffeine for 500 days and I just gritted my teeth despite the discomfort. Slight problem about anti -colonurgics, if you know anything about the metropic blends that we've got in eutonics products. Coline is a neurotransmitter. Anti -colonurgic is an anti -colleen, anti -colleen -nergic. So it kind of makes you dung it. It definitely knocked probably, you know, six to 12 IQ points.

1:30:09So I forgot the name of the seaside town next to Manchester for 30 seconds one day. It's like, blackpool. Yeah, blackpool, that's it. So treat the medication carefully. Don't overdo it. Go to a doctor, they'll be able to do it. It's very, very common. Don't need to be embarrassed about it. And now I've got the bladder of a fucking world champion. So it's not broken, you're not broken, you'll be fine. And as with everybody else, Godspeed. Wes Rob Thomas, how are you feeling now with some separation from mold exposure? I've been feeling a similar decline in fortitude and health, had a third party assessment done, the flag black mold, very old property, a moving end of month.

1:30:52So yeah, new house, which is where this new studio is, has been cleaned top to bottom a million times. It was built last year, so it hasn't, hopefully had that much time to accumulate any mold. We've got an HVAC thing that dehumidifies and I've had to spend time and money and all sorts of stuff to just stop Austin from killing me, which is a good testament to how much I like being in America that the country is really doing its best to stick a knife in my side. And I just keep on avoiding it as best possible. Um, you look, I don't want to color your expectations, but get out as quickly as possible.

1:31:35And it will take some time. I've been out of that house. I lived in, I mean, you guys, I don't know whether I even told you this. Uh, I lived in hotels for four months last year. Um, because the house that I was in was being remediated and cleaned of mold and, uh, That didn't work. So then I went back into a hotel and then went traveling and then came back and moved into this one. But it's going to take some time. So I've been out of the house for nearly 12 months and I am still dealing with a lot of the effects. So it is going to take a little bit of time. Alex Arango, what was the lowest point in your life and how did you overcome it?

1:32:27I don't want to be, I don't want to be ungrateful, but it's probably right now. Like you're probably watching me go through it, which is a strange thing to say to a few million people. I can't, I think it, I think it just shows it's a obvious and cliché, but if you don't have your health like the sick man wants one thing, the well man wants a thousand things. If you don't have your health, the really is nothing else. It's just so front and center of everything. And then all of the stories that you tell yourself about what this means and whether or not you're going to get well and how life's passing you by and this is your youth and this is fault you should be working harder at it.

1:33:18So I guess I'll tell you when I overcome it.

1:33:26But it's been a big learning experience. And again, fucking vibe killer. Am I right? But you ask the question, I'm trying to be open, trying to be honest. Hopefully it makes people who are well feel, I mean, Jesus Christ, if you've got your health, we just take 30 seconds for me, please. And just be grateful that your brain works and your mood is where it's supposed to be, and you don't fall asleep at 8 p .m. at night. Because if you have any ounce of envy for something that you think that I have or people like me have, I don't have those things, currently. I'm tired all the time no matter how long I sleep.

1:34:12I fall asleep at 8pm every night. My brain feels like it's dripping out of my ears and I have no memory, despite the fact that my job requires me to fucking remember things, specifically words, which is the precise area of the brain that this thing gets at. And my mood, I never find myself in a good mood unless I've done the most ridiculous ritual rain dance beforehand. Like I've just finished a great workout in the gym with my best friend with a coffee in my hand listening to my favorite song and the sun shining and there's a bird tweeting like that maybe there's a little bit of left. So if you've got your health take 30 seconds and really feel into that because fuck me like that would be nice.

1:34:57And if you're struggling and you don't and I'm fighting along with you. Muff, a huge section of the podcast space is dependent on the culture wars and without couldn't exist. Not yours, but we can all think of some obvious examples. So they have a vested interest in perpetuating disputes about culture wars issues and will die without it. Discuss. True, so fucking true. The most important driver I think on YouTube at the moment is timeliness. So if Donald Trump gets shot yesterday and you do a breakdown right now, you'll do huge numbers. It kind of doesn't really matter how good or bad it is. If you've got enough launch velocity, subscribers on your channel and a good like Algo placement, you'll do huge numbers.

1:35:45Now obviously if you talk total dog shit, people are going to get pissed and you all of the exposure will be negative to brand, negative to the way that people see you. But this is so true. That being said, Trump has been back in office for a few days and as much as the mainstream media was so, we can't have Hitler back in. This is going to be the beginning of the end for America, so on and so forth. Without a doubt, they are loving it. Then numbers will never have been higher. CNN complaining about it, loose women whining about him, Fox News promoting him, like, doesn't matter which side of the fence you're on, Trump shows the prevalence of Trump and the amount that people are talking about him shows, all that people care about is fucking gossip.

1:36:34All they care about is gossip. And that vested interest in perpetuating disputes about culture wars issues is so true. And, but we have formal years. We don't need to even perpetuate it because there is just this, this nuclear reactor spitting out stories on what feels like a daily, but an hourly basis at the moment. That being said, blowing it out of proportion, it will be in the back of a lot of podcasters' minds because they'll think, huh. I should talk about this, it'll get plays. And then if someone reacts to it, I can react to their reaction. So yep, there you have a vested interest. And I try and avoid.

1:37:15ch -ch -de -kakare, ch -de -kakare, not bored with self -help themes. Will you focus more on culture and

1:37:27sciences? I did not put those two back to back, but I mean this is just a perfect example of how if you have a sufficiently big audience, even a very small audience, it's very difficult to please everybody, not bored with self -help themes, question mark, will you focus more on culture and sciences. I personally, for me, where I've been recently with the show, I really have just been loving this emotion stuff, feeling feelings, emotional connection relating to others, building friendships, overcoming nervousness, performance, but from a sort of a holistic lens, I'm really deep on that. And that was, you know, where the show between productivity and that was really where the show started.

1:38:12So, you know, the landed buttons of the world, the Sam Harris when he's talking more about, sort of, self -help and inner work. I mean, love with that. So, you know, it's probably gonna be a, there's probably gonna be another season of that coming through culture, yeah, sure. It depends what kind of culture you mean. You know, like if I'm talking about, like, ancient Roman culture or something, perhaps, but I really do have limited desire to sort of add to the slop that's out there about whatever Trump did yesterday. And I'm always gonna get dragged into it because it's interesting and engaging and it's easy.

1:38:49But I want a body of work that I look back on in five years time and I go, fuck yeah, I should listen to that again. I cared about that then, I care about that now. How many people are going back for all that he's a very impressive individual? How many people are going back and listening to what Ben Shapiro had to say a year and a half ago? No one. You are permanently riding the crest of now, just surfing on whatever the last 24 hours news story was. And that's, I mean, more power, eight million person YouTube channel and however big daily wire is and all that stuff. But that's just not what I want to do.

1:39:29I want an evergreen body of work. Sure, there'll be some smattering of bullshit in that. But I'm open to that, we got some chemists coming on, got a couple of biologists, got a couple of physicists, so yeah. I'm going to leave it there, I think. 3 .25 million subscribers is fucking insane. The last year has been tough. Sorry for being a bit of a buzzkill. Hopefully that was insightful, made you feel like you resonated a little bit, gave you some reassurance if you're feeling bad, gave you some gratitude if you're feeling well and have health, I'm jealous of. Hannah, we got huge episodes, who have we got coming up soon.

1:40:12A landed bottom, if you've made it this far, you can actually just open up my skirt and tell you everyone who's coming out. How about that? Let me open up the dock. So who have we got here? Monday 27th of January, here's Morgan. Monday 3rd of February, a landed bottom. Monday 10th of February, Rory Sutherland. Monday 17th of February, Tom Segura. Monday 24th of February, Ronda Patrick, Monday 3rd of March, Dr. Julie Smith, Monday 10th of March, George Mac, Monday 17th of March, Freya, India. So those are the big ones who got Malcolm Gladwell coming on, got Louise Perry coming back on, got Young Pueblo, Vanessa Van Edwards, Tracy Vien Koor, Sahil Bloom, at 900th episode, dropping soon as well, Rick Hanson, William Van Hippell coming back on for the first time in like six years.

1:40:59So look at see stick about to the end. Stay through me whining, but all bullshit, get a little treat. Download the reading list, chriswolex .com slash books. See you next time.