Modern Wisdom - #039 - Life Hacks 106

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi friends. Lifehacks 106, can you believe that it's the sixth episode of Lifehacks already? We've been through so many tools for a productive and efficient life, and there's so many more to go. So strap yourself in because today's an absolute beller. Johnny and Yusuf seemed obsessed with trying to derail this episode, and you will hear me grapple with them both verbally and physically during the course of this recording. In other news, we have got some fantastic festive themed ideas for some upcoming episodes. So as your TV screens and radio stations begin to be besmirched with the sound of jingling bells and talk of 50% of soft furnishings at home-west

Starting point is 00:00:53 stores, we're going to enter into the festive spirit as well. If there are any topics that you would like us to cover around New Year's goal-setting productivity, whatever it might be, fire it over. I've also managed to reach out to some companies that make some really awful Christmas jumpers, which you are going to be able to see me force Yusuf and Johnny into. So heads to the Modern Wisdom YouTube channel.

Starting point is 00:01:17 Make sure you click subscribe. If you would, it would make me incredibly happy and you are going to be the first person to see Yusuf and Johnny wearing some very silly Christmas jumpers. But for now, it's Lifehack's time. Enjoy, tweet me, Instagram me, do whatever you need. If you have something to add and if not, sit back, one of six principles for a productive and efficient life.

Starting point is 00:01:57 You made it trendy, you made it trendy? It was fine, it was just light hacks. What? Where's the tagline from? You ruined the intro. You do, you do, you do. Do I ruin it or do I? No, you ruin it.

Starting point is 00:02:10 Is it endearing? No. I think it's endearing. And then Chris tries to re-let back. So we can find it. You're watching me, you're watching me, grapple. But I'm a ghost in the system. Right.

Starting point is 00:02:19 Do you want to go lie in the ointment? Let's go in the list. The less scone in the pot. Right. For the first time in three episodes, you have a list. I've seen it, I just wrote this earlier. Cool. It's not very comprehensive. Do you want, just big topic, or you quit one? Quick one. Look, jab. Throw one thing away per day.

Starting point is 00:02:45 All right. As in, like, one empty park of crisps. No, no. One possession. That's presuming that you purchase possessions quicker than one a day. No, it's eventually you will. No, it's not. You're going to end up with no possessions.

Starting point is 00:03:01 No, the whole point will be ridiculous. Think of the rate that you're accumulating things out now. If you're waiting to live, how long do I have to continue this for? So the idea is, I'm going to end up holding this. I'm going to end up holding this. No, I should. I serve a particular purpose in your life and a lot of people have a lot of bloated stuff. There's an article of a guy that has 22 possessions.

Starting point is 00:03:21 And they'll all be mint. Yeah. It's like a really expensive set of hardwiring boots. A MacBook Air, like a Clipper. I go give it a charity shop or sell it, eBay, whatever, or eBay. For enough, I just think it leads to a more streamlined existence.

Starting point is 00:03:41 A minimalist life space, it'll be tidier, mentally clearer. Right. And most people go like, ah, I'm going to have a big sort out, big tidier, like, bollocks, just throw one thing away, put it. And then before you know it's six months later, you're not matching, you're not matching your own. I mean, you've got one old set.

Starting point is 00:03:57 It's there very effectively the way. It's a habit, it's a process goal, rather than outcome goal. Okay. You didn't get it, but it's a good one. Like Huck, also a fitness tip. Best thing that you can do for your upper body is get a pull-up bar in your house. The pull-up is like the squat of the upper body.

Starting point is 00:04:16 And if you just have it in your house, especially if you rent somewhere and you're like, oh, I can't drink into the walls of the door because I'm not going to be annoyed. Just get one of the lever ones that you just hook it on. When you pull on one side, it's completely stapled. Cantilever. Cantilever.

Starting point is 00:04:32 Cantilever. Cantilever. Cantilever. Cantilever. Cantilever. I can't tell you, Eva. A force down is a wise way. Cantilever without you.

Starting point is 00:04:44 So, so you get one of them. Every time you walk past it, do five without you. So you get one of them every time you walk past it, do five pull ups. Or like, let's say, okay, max set, one max set. So yeah, pick the max number of reps you can do, divide it by two and do that many number of reps. So if you can do 10 pull ups and one set, do five. If you can only do three, do one pull up. If you can't do any pull ups, jump to the top, let yourself down as slow as you can. All the way down, don't do any of this kind of, oh I'm done. Like, jump to the top, let yourself all the way down. That's all you have to do when you crossfit cars.

Starting point is 00:05:16 Yeah, yeah. You can be making a way she's talking, much more fun way she's talking. You could buy the V-taker program. That is a program that we have which added, and I'm, people think I'm lying about this. It added 25 kilograms to my bench press in eight weeks. Johnny saw it happen. I watched it. To some people, that might not sound like a lot because they're making new games.

Starting point is 00:05:40 Yeah. It went from 115 to 140. But you'd already got close to peak performance. I was, yeah. Yeah, that was after a lot of training, wasn't it? It was after six, seven years of training. Six, seven years of training. I had an inch, an inch and a half to my chest and back.

Starting point is 00:05:56 Big difference in the photos. Probably got slightly leaner if anything. So it's a hard program. It is a hard program. Procurefitlis.com forward slash search on the search bar for V taper. I'm going to optimize. Does it know that you are out? propinifitness.com forward slash products V taper and credit card

Starting point is 00:06:15 information. We'll just create propinifitness.com forward slash V taper. There you go. By the time this is open, that's a deal. Get it up right now. So my one, anchor USB hub Hub and Calever. Anker lever without a U. Fuck it now. Turkey brushed. So everyone will know that almost everything in their home or their bedroom especially is charged by USB. And I recently got a lamp, which is charged by USB. Yes, annoying. That's awesome. Toothbrush is charged by USB. USB lamp and it's a little twat.

Starting point is 00:06:52 I think it plugs into a USB. Well, the charging thing, so it's a battery powered moon lamp. And then the other end of that. So you've got millions of... Well, I don't even charge. It just needs to always be an USB. It's not the... Millions of dispersed products, which require a USB plug to fit into. Get, you know.

Starting point is 00:07:13 Anker make one, I think the one I've got is an 8 stack, so it's a, like, a little rectangle, but that big, maybe, few inches by a few inches, by USB thick. And it's got 8 of them. No, not that one. Surely it's similar, but not the one, it's not that one, is it? And it's just going to fix all of your problems. Everything comes out of one area, you're never going to lose plugs again. One thing is plugged in, you don't need a multi socket and it's just fantastic. It's been an absolute game changer. Have you got any walled sockets that have a USB slot? No, because I've got this.

Starting point is 00:07:48 Okay, they're fucking stupid. Yeah, I've got one. I use it for my lamp that needs to be permanently plugged into a USB. So you've bought a lamp and then bought the socket for the lamp or were they coincidental? Coincidental, yeah, but like you can all see is it obviously for a phone, for the computer.

Starting point is 00:08:04 It's like using it to find a it obviously for the first time in a few years. It's the final bio switch for your smart lamp, really smart light. Shout out to Michael Casu from Brut Strange for making me jealous of his USB her bios in Texas. I got back and I was like, need one of them. It's fantastic. Yeah, there's never enough USBs there.

Starting point is 00:08:23 There is now with this hack. So what's next Johnny? Get a monthly massage We're from where do people go if they don't have someone good because finding a massage therapist is yeah, I was gonna yeah You said if you're in the Northeastern, for serious, I am quite limited on availability, but we can't give you that. It's the affiliate scheme. There's only one like all over again. You have to listen to normally a lecture sometimes. Three times speed. I'll give you a discount if I can listen to a lecture on three times speed.

Starting point is 00:09:03 Would you? Yeah, I'll give you five pounds off. Otherwise, you can listen to whatever of your choosing. For a five pound surplus. For a five pound surplus, you can pay. You can pay the listen to your own music. What about if it's silent? Is that just the price?

Starting point is 00:09:20 The midpoint. Yeah. 250. But so it's what it puts you in a enough volume of tissue work. You never put yourself for yourself. It hurts, you never do it yourself, and it just prevents things from getting too out of hand. And once a month isn't so frequent that it's like financially insane. I mean, once a month, this will quite a bit, but I think for the return financially insane. I mean, one time I did still quite a bit, but I think for the return with it.

Starting point is 00:09:55 Nice. It's gone. Get a shoehorn. So I did analysis of this, which is like, let's say you wear a lot of converse and vans and look at you. Any shoe that's just a little willy to try and get on. Brogues. Brogues are, yeah, possibly. or if you get painful heels or blisters on your heels You need to protect them. So If you spend let's say you take your shoes on and off average three four times a day Takes you 15 to 30 seconds per shoe. Let's say 15 seconds. That's 30 seconds per time multiply by four That's two seconds per time, multiply by four. That's two minutes per day, multiply that by 365.

Starting point is 00:10:32 Alfred, that's 730 minutes. That's 12 hours of time, Jesus, that you're putting your shoes on. Who? You put a year that you're putting your shoes on. What can you get that down to with the shoe on? I feel like my maths is wrong. Yeah, because I wasn't seeing that bad, really. And also like not something to do. It's two minutes a day though.

Starting point is 00:10:49 Just two minutes time, 365. 730. That's correct. Okay, yeah, fine. So you can get one of your life. I want you to save them by using the shoe on. Okay, so that's 12.1 hours. Let's see, your hourly rate is 10 pounds an hour.

Starting point is 00:11:07 You're saving 121 pounds over a year of human man hours. Imagine how much profit potential you could generate. But you don't put your shoes on instantly with a shoe on. It's not too good. So we need to work out the saving time. So let's say you save five seconds. Okay. I think you'd probably cut it down to a quarter.

Starting point is 00:11:24 Yeah, 25 is like the original time. You think it jam to a quarter. Yeah, 25. You're not like it in your childhood. You think it jammed in it. Yeah, you save your thumb skin as well. Everyone wants a bit of nice thumbs up. So I'm scared of skin. They agree. So eBay, 70p free per stitch. No, you man, you don't want you. Or you can do what these two did, which was the most beautiful gift I've ever received for my birthday. They got me a proper weapon of a shoehorn. Like, what is it? Probably 50 inches long and it's like cold rolled steel or something. It's lovely. We also got some ham. And you ate it? It was parma ham. Parma ham. Haran. Haran. And a green egg. Parma

Starting point is 00:11:57 to tank engine, card. Yeah. That leads quite nicely into two that I want to do, which are That leads quite nicely into two that I want to do, which are more, I guess, friendship based or conceptual based. First one is tell your friends that you miss them. So this is something that I read in the six-minute diary, which you've heard me speak about a lot, and is potentially not coming life back on this episode, where it says your friends will appreciate you telling them that you're thinking of them. And so many times you'll think about someone that you care about, whether it be a friend or a family member, and you won't do anything about it.

Starting point is 00:12:31 You're like, that is the lowest hanging fruit of a nice gesture. You send and receive shite messages on an hourly basis on your phone. Just when that happens, now whenever I get a pang of thinking about someone, I just tend to tell them, I try my best to go, thinking about you man, hope you're good, or send a message to my mom, my dad, or ask how the dogs are, like, and it's just, it's a nice little

Starting point is 00:12:55 rule of thumb, the same way that some people have got like trigger numbers, I wherever they see the number 21, it reminds them to be mindful or whatever it might be. That's kind of the same thing for me. And on the side of that is be the guy who organized this stuff, or the guy who organized this stuff for your friends. So I got a lot of mates who complained that their friends never want to do things, like that they just dust around or they always just go at the pub or do whatever. Now the powers in your hands to do this. And if you continue, like I'm on YouTube used to get you to get a license. Yeah, you are definitely that person.

Starting point is 00:13:28 Thin end of the wedge. You don't need to do that. What Chris did. So me and Chris were wanting to go to Iceland. Chris and I, Chris and I, I took the, I took the plunge. I was like, okay, it'll be a nice thing. I got the jyter some the way, but Johnny was like, oh no, I really can't afford to go to Iceland at the moment. It's going to be nine and a half thousand pounds for everything. And so Chris, bought him, bought him the plane ticket to Iceland. And then you're the dick if you

Starting point is 00:14:04 don't go. Because someone's got your plane ticket to Iceland and then you're the dick if you don't go. Because someone's got your plane ticket. That was just fine. But then the reason it's thin end of the wedge is because that's really just cranking the door open. But the real cost of Iceland is once you get there and you buy a ready meal from the supermarket and it's 9.5 thousand. You can sense the... Chris and I just live as a dominoes the whole time. Which it was 9.5 thousand pounds per pizza. It was cheaper. Dominoes was like standard price.

Starting point is 00:14:33 Dominoes was... Was it? Dominoes are being... The most affordable thing, like you'd be better off just having dominoes for everyone. There was a man who built this house out of them. It was cheaper than brick. Oh yeah, fine. Well, it would be.

Starting point is 00:14:44 That's the thing, well that's another life hack. Oh, yeah, fine. Well, it would be. That's the thing that, well, that's another life hack. Like, you're an idiot if you pay full price for dominoes because they've constantly got discounted. Two for choose, I think it's a express. We all do express models. We all did the process. Half a grand of dominoes to a staff induction

Starting point is 00:15:00 in a couple of weeks ago. That's a lot of dominoes with vouchers as well. Two for choose days. Good God. That would have like bust a shop. We had to do that. We had to ring them in advance. Well, at the day before we go just to let you know. Sprite over the FII. You're about to have the mother load send your way. Shove this. Like right in your dough. Book Friday off as a holiday because tomorrow I'm hitting your weekly revenue target. I'm ready. Catch me. I've got it every time. I'm not ready for the next time. Quick fire, life hack.

Starting point is 00:15:35 This is a big self monetize. I hit an example of a guy who, okay, so step back. If we assume that AI, machine learning, et cetera, is slowly taking over a lot of jobs. So let's say, but in 20 years time, a good chunk of jobs that have a fairly manual component to them will be largely automated. So you need to not wait until that's happening to go, oh, shit, I'm unemployed. I need to find something else to do. There's an example of a guy who

Starting point is 00:16:11 I heard in a podcast recently who used to work in the same area I used to work in, so you used to work for a big four-accountancy firm. So all that's happening, he was like, literally they are hiring less people per year because of all this automation left and started selling a product online using online marketing, et cetera, of just how to get a job at one of these firms and earns more per year than when he was working there, which is a bit matter. So ironic here. But like, the point of self monetization is like everyone has a something that they could just coach or offer, just

Starting point is 00:16:46 start doing it as a side hobby. This is the guy from ClickFunnels, right? Not him. No, but that's one of the things that he says everyone's an expert in something. So, if you want to get expert secrets, let us know. So, you want to speak to the guys. That's a really good point. I like that look. speak to the guys. That's a really good point. I saw some guy that started following

Starting point is 00:17:08 on Twitter the other day came up with an unbelievable side business that everyone could do. Search local businesses on Google or Facebook. When you view the page, look for the ones that say, is this your business, claim it, then call that business and say you're not doing online marketing, your competitors are taking your money away from you, very easily learn online marketing and do their marketing for them. Yeah, there you go. There's probably a 20 grand a year business just in your back pocket. There are so many things that like, so if you are a 20 something, you're all 30 something,

Starting point is 00:17:40 whatever, like you're fairly familiar with Facebook, social media, etc. There were so many business owners who are 50-something who have no interest in learning, weren't raised with that level of technology, and you can just provide a service online in your pajamas. I'll teach you how to tweak face and to do it yourself. You book the whole thing. That is a side income that in some cases can eclipse what you currently are. It's a good point. It's like you probably have an expertise in at least two or three things that you maybe not even consider to be an expertise in.

Starting point is 00:18:16 The guy on how to get a job at the company that he works at, that's not something that immediately comes to mind. I've got a job here, so therefore I know how to get the job here. Exactly. So we say when we're teaching PT's how to move online is just staying one chapter ahead of the people you're helping. So in the film catch me if you count, he pretends to teach a class by just reading one chapter ahead of where the class actually is for a whole term.

Starting point is 00:18:41 And like if you know a little bit about something more than someone else, you can help them. That's actually an expert. Where you are, exactly. And actually that person probably doesn't want someone who's 10 steps or 20 steps ahead, because- We have lots of time. So relate, will you?

Starting point is 00:18:55 Nice, that's good, mom. Don't wait until AI takes a job to get another income. Did you see I did a tweet today? I think one of you guys replied to it about self-driving cars. Yeah, there we go. So there was this statistic that I was listening to about self-driving cars will save one million road deaths per year. And people are still arguing over which group of pedestrians it would hit if it

Starting point is 00:19:20 was presented with this existential question. As humans make the optimal decision. That's the ridiculous thing. It's so, yeah. And this is what I said, the perfect thing I said on the mess of the tweet was, we would soon a dive our own volition, then live at the behest of a computer. Well, so the response was people, after September 11th, many people decided to drive into state because they were

Starting point is 00:19:47 afraid of September the 11th happening again, which ironically, it's so unlikely that the same terrorist event is going to happen again. Why do you think the most security is going to be immediately after an airplane incident? Exactly. And terrorists don't like the number of guys. Let's double down on the motorways. I'm just convinced that the motorways are really way better. Look, John, John, half a secure. Exactly. So my life hack on the note of you saying having a trigger number that reminds you to do

Starting point is 00:20:22 something is, so you can digital or analog. The digital version is an app on iPhone called AlarmD that just allows you to set and the image is actually like a little bit of string around someone's finger and that's what people used to do so you can wear a ring or you can wear a bracelet or something that also reminds you of that and every time you become aware of it or you notice it on your body, or you set alarm to go off it, certain intervals throughout the day, you can do the habit that you're looking to instill. For me, it's deeper breathing.

Starting point is 00:20:56 So I've got the deep breath of my heart. And it makes a really unintrusive, like, and it's quiet enough. Sorry. What does it do? Very nice, lovely. And so it doesn't vibrate or anything, it's just enough for you to notice it. Other people won't even, it's not register stuff.

Starting point is 00:21:15 And that's the way it's done. It's from my default sun breath. Yeah. That's a really nice way to do it. I might do that for making sure that my posture and call. Oh, exactly. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:21:24 Alarmed, very nice indeed. I'm not gonna do it. Okay, so video of Guy Dean making sure that my posture and core are aligned. Very nice indeed. What am I going to do? Okay, so video of Gardin will love the fact that he's got some partner footage for this, but I recently decided to purchase a pregnancy pillow. So glad to come. Congratulations. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:21:41 As you will see here. And we're back Yeah, awful when we go away It's just blackness. Yeah, lose all sense of dead. How long have we been gone for? Well, that's the thing I don't know We'll never so one may have tampered with me. It's come. Yeah, it's gone from We've lost gone gone from a little bit worse gone. We've lost our lives.

Starting point is 00:22:04 Pregnancy pillow. It's essentially a huge, you, what, as you've just seen in the footage, it's a big U-shaped bastard that lives in your bed. And as opposed to having a normal pillow and not being able to support yourself when you're all over, if you're a slightly heavier guy like we may be, it means I don't like, I like sleeping on my side, but I don't like folding over without support underneath, and I never really knew what I was missing until I had a pregnancy pillow. So being able to put something that's both between your legs and that your top arm can rest on takes so much of the pressure of like chest already sat over a computer all day opening up your

Starting point is 00:22:48 scapular opening up your back and closing off on your chest and then you go to bed and mimic the same position. The idea is well that by having your legs slightly apart, if you didn't have that your spine sags because you've got your head elevated and then the rest of your body is down like that and then your legs are together So your spine is literally sagging down, whereas if you have your legs slightly apart, it just straightens things up a bit And then if you do Johnny's tip from Lifehacks 104 I think one of one of five was at 105 where you have In that position you have the pillow like this Don't forget don't forget the towel roll to be a towel or whatever

Starting point is 00:23:24 The towel roll inside It's going to be a towel roll, it's going to be a towel roll. The towel roll inside. Gap here. Imagine my hands are towel roll. Imagine my hands are not my hands are towel roll. This hands my hand. Isn't that lovely? Are you sure? Sit and I'm sitting.

Starting point is 00:23:34 What's this? That's my hand. This is a towel. And then if you don't have a pregnancy pillow, just a... I mean, you need another pillow. I have a three pillow set up, unfortunately. Would you not consider pregnancy pillow? I've been worried about the heat.

Starting point is 00:23:47 I'm well up for a pregnancy pillow, but it contravenes my estrogen experiment at the moment because it's made of polyurethane. So can we? Polyethylene, one of those. It's the complexity of that sentence. Like I know, obviously I know exactly what you mean, but I know what you mean.

Starting point is 00:24:02 It's true actually that sentence. It contravenes my estrogen experiment because yeah,, like, well, there's another problem. What's your eating experiment? What happened? What happened? What happened? What happened? What happened?

Starting point is 00:24:12 What happened when I lit some candles when we all came round to my house? I thought you got upset, didn't you? You got upset because it was going to ruin your experiment to try and improve your free testosterone. Is it your free? Is it not the net? For me, it's my free. Well, that is the net. Is it total and free? My total is normal. My free is subnormal. So, prepping for such an estrogen and V-taper. I'm just normal. I'm going to make those two links before this goes on. Your toucher on. My toucher on. Through the roof.

Starting point is 00:24:47 Who just did one? You did. What did I do? Prank and T-Pillar. So it's really nice. You can get one on Amazon. The link will be in the show note below. And it's like 20 quid for like a smaller one.

Starting point is 00:24:59 I'm gonna upgrade to the one that you sent me. That's nice. 50 quid, but it looks worth it. Yeah, the problem with my one is I have a pregnancy pillow and then I need to put another one on top because it is thin on the, it's too round, isn't it? It's too thin.

Starting point is 00:25:12 So, no, a team pregnancy pillow. How would you, who's the guy that did the top deal? Who's the guy that did the sleep? Can you start out? Kelly's start out was the one, actually, that was linked in Lifehack's 105. Check it out. And he did the sleep posture thing, right?

Starting point is 00:25:31 How would you utilize a pregnancy pillow? Would that would you just go one arm under, one arm over? Yeah, he talks about, so either if you're lying on your back, pillow, the hamstrings, if you're lying inside, pull up between your legs. Yeah. And then he has that display, which is what kind of what a pregnant spiller is already doing.

Starting point is 00:25:50 As long as you are not doing, so I think what he's trying to get away from is people go like this, and then that you're like sat on your shell, lying on your shell. Or like that. Or like that. As soon as you, I mean, even if you don't have a pregnancy pillow, you're not prepared to make the move,

Starting point is 00:26:04 your partner's going to say that, what the fuck have you made this barrier between us and the bed for? You're not pregnant? You travel a lot, yeah, whatever. And how do you know? You're not a woman, you're probably like, it's a lot for a woman.

Starting point is 00:26:15 Even if you're not prepared to do that, you can quite easily, like, just getting used to slotting that bottom arm underneath a pillow and pushing the pillow in between yourself and your shoulder. Even just when you told me that, I was like, why have I not been... That's what I do currently, because my pillow doesn't compress very much.

Starting point is 00:26:33 But I'm gonna go for the next stage and do the role that Tyler think, because he's sleeping before though. I do sleep on the floor. So, that sounds like I'm just... I know that you want to me to mention that as well. To the listeners at home, it'll be a joke that you have sleeps on the floor.

Starting point is 00:26:48 Johnny and Chris made a funny exaggerating because he's an arrow actually. So you actually do. I do, and I'm considering getting some wooden pallets. Just how long did we fight with you to try and get you to get a bed? Weeks. And you could have had 90 days times three. When you bought your house to when you moved in.

Starting point is 00:27:10 So I've done four months now of sleeping on the floor. Good. On a mattress top. On a mattress top, just to stop the joints from, yeah, so I did it as a journalistic piece and I'm writing an article, video about it coming out soon on prepafitness.com for a slash sleeping on the floor. I hope she's called it for coming out soon on prepafitness.com, forward slash, sweeping on the floor. I'm just gonna call it forward slash floor.

Starting point is 00:27:27 Floor, fine. I love making these links on the fly, but it just means creating more work for us. Yeah, it's just great. Oh, it's good. So hold on, the links that you say don't exist. Not yet, but they will. Yeah, so they do.

Starting point is 00:27:39 They do exist now. Don't give a word to scum you. Okay, so net overall, are you going to sleep on the floor forever? No, there have been some benefits, some downsides, but you'll have to see the article and the video to find out, right? Nice, and there's a lot to this. You're a... Man, you weren't ready, you said... Because you get sucked in the direction.

Starting point is 00:28:01 I know, we're going to be talking about sleeping. Johnny just got completely sucked off You got sucked off and then I off did I Said something off in the direction which direction As I've done so you know actually I'm gonna do give up coffee Give it coffee. You're gonna give up coffee. You're gonna do giving up coffee So I've already given up coffee within a month or so. Not anymore, yeah. And you haven't even had you fit aid. I know. Which I've already been with. You nearly went out of it without

Starting point is 00:28:29 that for some reason. So I'll call it fitty. All right. Okay, so how much coffee were you, how much coffee were you having? Lots. How much? On average. Five cups a day. Yeah. Just flat teaspoons, big heap teaspoons. So I have a nispresresso machine, the little capsules. Yeah. But like, so I'd have like two at home, money. And then sometimes like go out and maybe have two

Starting point is 00:28:52 in a coffee shop. Blanche time. Yeah. And the trouble is reckless. Yeah. Well, that's about looking back now at this reckless. What was interesting? It resets not only a sensitivity to caffeine,

Starting point is 00:29:03 but also your sense of like, whoa, that's a lot of motivation. Yeah. Yeah. So I was on holiday with my girlfriend, ordered my second sort of app breakfast. I ordered my second cafeteria, right, app breakfast. Because I'm like, I used to have this, I may have even said on this podcast,

Starting point is 00:29:20 you saw this out to you, like, anyone who gives it a coffee just fucking got nothing to do. Like go find me someone who drinks a lot of coffee, I'll show you someone who gets a lot done, they've got a big to-do list. Like they're probably quite ambitious. Last heinous. Big penis, massive deadlift, all those things.

Starting point is 00:29:35 And... Big as a bitch first. And so I just, almost, what is a badge of honor that I drank a lot of coffee? And there's a very, there's a culture around that, certainly in the fitness industry of like, you know, how I feel on a Monday with that coffee, almost, what is a badge of honor that I drew? A lot of coffee. And there's a very, there's a culture around that, certainly in the fitness industry of like, you know, how I feel on a Monday, like coffee, et cetera, et cetera. So she said, I bet you couldn't go without coffee

Starting point is 00:29:54 for 30 days, am I immediate like, fuck you? Yes, I can, kicked in. And before I knew it, I'd committed to it. So the first thing I did, I was like, my tea tea. Oh, my God. The first thing I did was I'm as in, bought a, so I was like writing it really into tea, that tea's mint. So I ordered like a year of a matte, puer tea, a sentia green tea, and

Starting point is 00:30:15 I was making these concoctions and like this, it tastes awful. I'm trying to convince myself that it was fine. Remembering that we're all sat in a WhatsApp chat. Listening to what you would have told an air. Discuss the finer points of how to get off being on coffee. I'm trying to answer to maybe your hate. It's like, it's too hard, it's talking about how the like, spattered boiled down methodo and to make it like, which is not methodo anymore. Yeah. Yeah, so the weirdest thing about it was, but I think because I had, I was still having some tea, so I was allowed, any tea I wanted, just no coffee, so I couldn't have tea coffee, so it was trying to get myself away from seeing coffee as my tea leaves and everything. Yeah, because tea has more caffeine than coffee apparently, but it's just that it doesn't

Starting point is 00:31:01 can't diffuse properly. Yeah. So I think I probably, my caffeine intake went down from probably 600 milligrams a day to less than 100 milligrams a day. And some days, nothing at all. For someone who doesn't know what 600 milligrams is, likes not very much.

Starting point is 00:31:15 A shot of espresso is roughly 60 to 80, usually 60. So the wisor is pointless. And not go with 140. Yeah, so that's like a decent like a nice start at does Okay, so I'm sure what were the effects that 30 days of no caffeine elicited? um sleep So I was expecting some sleep benefits a few headaches Like but feeling a bit frustrated and generally underwhelmed and underwhelm underwhelm

Starting point is 00:31:44 Well, that's the undow Well, I can't find it. Improved an unbelievable amount. So like, I think we were recording a podcast one evening after I'd be doing it for our week and I was like, I can't keep my eyes open. It was like half-nine. Falling asleep. So how long does it take until you start? You just saw sleep improvements. It was almost instant. You said it was a weekend that you completely were on. We were doing a podcast, but just generally at like 9.30.

Starting point is 00:32:13 Just. Oh, it's easy. So you only say sleep improvements. You mean you're tired in the nighttime? Tired in the evening without having to like try and wind down. Because I think a lot of sleep time. I was going back on to coffee, you were, yeah.

Starting point is 00:32:27 I had another two or three days, because I'd been off coffee for a few years now, like cold turkey. And I had two or three days of, I'm gonna, you know, ease myself back into coffee and just having one in the mornings. I never used to fall asleep during the day. And once I started doing that,

Starting point is 00:32:41 I noticed that I was in the afternoon I was falling asleep. I have a slump. And I think it's because there's a carryover effect reducing my sleep quality in the night time. So I went to that and then in what time during the day. And then you're having to just stumble your way into like having more coffees to keep yourself propped up.

Starting point is 00:32:57 And then there was a time when you had a slightly too heaped teaspoon of coffee. Hard rate just 100 the whole day. I've got my message being choney. Just saying guys, had a heaped teaspoon of coffee this morning. Because I've been like still way under 100 milligrams of coffee. Probably. They've gone from like 65 to 80 or something like that. Ruined me.

Starting point is 00:33:21 That's right. I've got the data to show for as well. I can include, I'll see if I can find the screenshot. So I've been back on coffee for two weeks and I went so the morning, the morning of me having my first coffee the day before I realised that someone had stolen my data online. So I started getting letters. And I was like, oh, fuck, say, go ahead. So I got to deal with this.

Starting point is 00:33:51 But I was like, no, bollocks, I'm going the coffee shop. So I like delayed dealing with it, went to Uzbeam Coffee, if anyone's been there in Newcastle, lovely, ordered an Aero press coffee. So this used to be like bread and butter for me, but this used to be just like, whereas this was like,

Starting point is 00:34:09 you want to get an axe out of the breakable thing. And the, so extremely productive morning, like almost painfully productive morning. The next day, had one, I was like, right, one more of that, I had a second one. Massive, messy. Massive, messy. So you and I were on a coaching call at the time. And I remember sitting there thinking, like, I've literally over done it here. You can't go back. There's nothing you can do. No one do button with COVID-19. Yeah. And you feel it. Take you away. And you're like,

Starting point is 00:34:43 this is going to be a must-have for eight hours. Because that's a you're like, shh, this is gonna be a must for some great hours. Because that's a difference with heroin. If someone overdoses on heroin, you can give them Naloxone, which is fantastic because it just instantly reverses it and people just come out of their slump and they'll hate you for it because they'll have been having a nice trip.

Starting point is 00:34:59 That was a trip. Yeah, but caffeine, I feel like- No, thanks. You've just got to ride it through the wave. So, I feel like you've just got to ride the wave. So, I've had caffeine. As a prop, and I like love coffee as well. So I normally have no time for people who advise these sorts of things, especially,

Starting point is 00:35:15 because you don't like coffee. I had 3D coffee today actually. Did you? People made me them. So, it's like, you were saved for a nice coffee, you were buying nice coffee beans, I don't know. So I, I'm like that, was like that. So giving it was really difficult to do,

Starting point is 00:35:35 but definitely benefits. So now, what's your relationship with coffee now? I'm never thought, hey, you say this. I feel like this is a real option. It's going to be a real option. It's going to be a real option. Maybe a real. The real Johnny is tied up a real upset. It's going to be a real upset. Maybe a real upset. The real Johnny is tied up somewhere.

Starting point is 00:35:46 This is the Android that's like... I think having seen the effect of having two coffees and realizing that I had blunted that is such a strong fuck, maybe. I need to be careful with this stuff. So are you going to start using it strategically after the 30 days is up? The 30 days is gone. Right, okay, so in the back of it. Just one of them will be fine.

Starting point is 00:36:08 So this is actually in the what, it's a George. We have a podcast about this. And like, we do. Johnny has a protocol on how to reset your coffee addiction without just going cold turkey. Cause there is not what I did. There is real caffeine with normal effects. Like you will get headaches and everything.

Starting point is 00:36:22 And it's not psychogenic. It's like is pharmacologic effectiveness. Which weirdly, I actually found switching to tea easier than using decaf. Right, okay. But I think just because you aren't like having a shit version of something, you're like having a decaf zero coffee, isn't it?

Starting point is 00:36:38 Or anything is so summon. Right. Yeah. But also like it's not as much. That's the tea. If you like coffee, yeah, it's less than tea. Okay. If you like coffee like it's not as nice. That's the two if you like coffee. Yeah, it's less than two Okay, if you like coffee, it's awful It's just not as nice. It's just a knockoff

Starting point is 00:36:51 But like experimenting with different teas and it is an interesting experience Yeah, yeah Well, I did something called as in a video of the standard fitness morning routine, which I like to call the anxiety cocktail, because what people do is they'll get themselves out of bed. First thing they do, check the news feed on Instagram, check if they've got, neuratically check if they've had any likes or anything, skip breakfast. Well, you want to externalize, you want to get outside of yourself as fast as possible,

Starting point is 00:37:22 don't you? Yeah, it's the first thing in the morning. So you want to sensitize yourself to other people's approval and make sure to prime your body for stress. So you do that. And you skip breakfast, so make sure that you're getting stuff into the most sympathetic dominant, the glucagon dominant state that you can. Then you've got this cortisol awakening response, you've got a natural surge of stress hormones

Starting point is 00:37:41 coming in, peeking at around 45 minutes. And it's the perfect time to have a big cup of coffee. So that when that starts to get absorbed, it just doubles on that stress response. So you get all of that stuff. And then you go, sit over a computer, hunched over, and multitask, and only look at things that are 30 centimeters away

Starting point is 00:38:00 from the whole artificial light. And artificial light made sure to hammer that. And that is how you're doing. And you don't turn your notifications off on your laptop. Oh yeah, so how do notifications come in and all the time making a flip between tasks? And that is how to engineer anxiety in yourself. And I mean, check out the videos on Instagram,

Starting point is 00:38:16 but I look at the rate of anxiety searches on Google from 2004 to now and it's doubled and we wonder why. I did an interview today with Recovery for Life which is a substance abuse and mental health facility in Newcastle. They help people out of substance. They don't give them mental health problems and substance abuse in there. That would be awful. It would be a poor business follow. Like the hate crime charity that funds hate crimes. Rapist for the label. No. All right. Okay. The rapist charity. What was that thing? I knew the strength, the rapist. Strength, the rapist. Like the pediatrician, they got a brick through and through his

Starting point is 00:39:03 windows. It's off the people that read the Sun, there wasn't it. Terrible. Have you done, that's not your one. No. What's your one? Mine is, and Jett shall BP are all going to be upset at me for this, because it's not really safe, and I... This is a life making you're on fuel, eh?

Starting point is 00:39:19 No, no. This is a life-hands-by surprise for me. I did. I did. Importing it from Yemen. Yeah. I'm not saying, I mean. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. I put the thing in, take the cap, squeeze it underneath the handle and then get back in the car. And then the petrol... Hands free, fill in. Hands free, it will fill up and it will stop on its own account. You can then get back out.

Starting point is 00:39:54 You know where you want to go and hook it. Any city centre shell between the hours of 12 and 5 on a weekday. Is there a dude doing it? Fork up. Really? Attended, yeah. How much do you you want me? I just don't care. I'll rip. You know what I have really changed my opinion of? The frequency of filling my car. Faults and gas. You going full tanky? Yes.

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Starting point is 00:40:39 I don't know. I don't know. It's really such a like. I'll explain. So the way the format of the petrol station is ridiculous. Format. There's a mini-tesco and the pumps are just off the road. So you come off the road and you're immediately in a pump.

Starting point is 00:40:55 So that means that the queues for the pump move that one to the road. So I had filled up, this was like 5.30, going into the, walking into the Tesco. And as I'm doing that, a guy's like, hammering his horn, park behind me, turn around, and there's a guy like gesturing, and I just went like that. Like, I don't know what you mean, you know,

Starting point is 00:41:20 fuck off, I'm just gonna do my petrol. Walked in, so I was with my girlfriend at the time. She filled up a separate pump, also had shit from someone separate. Both walked in, I know, ridiculous. Both walked in. And I'm standing in the queue, and this guy just runs into Tesco. You're four and over the four. You are. I was like, I just remember, it must have looked really weird to him because I didn't, I was just confused. I was like, the problem is, Johnny, you have very irreverent body language.

Starting point is 00:42:00 An intentionally, it's a casual, it's a casual to say the least. I have a very confrontational accidentally. So, yeah, so people might see you as unapproachable or escalating the situation. So, I'm sure there was just some people he said going on. He said, what the fuck are you doing? So, do you think you are? He said, why didn't you move out and start shouting this? And I said, because

Starting point is 00:42:26 that's not what people do at a petrol station. Wait, so there's a security guard. This whole time. Absolutely nothing. So I'm still queuing. Well, this guy is just on the other side of the like tiny barrier that exists in order cues and he saw that as being a Glass wall that he couldn't go past so he's like But standing still sort of a meter away from me, and I'm trying to ignore him Get to the front of the queue go to the guy Pump number it's the same law that gives us when you have a ninja film There's two people fighting in the middle of a circle and everyone around the outside is like that. No, just want to go home, put my socks on.

Starting point is 00:43:25 And I then left, started walking out, and Becca's just shell-trucked by her whole thing. So she ran after her car, and I was kind of looking over my shoulder. And the guy again, followed me, but stayed a distance behind. And then I just got on my car and drove off. I'm pissed off.

Starting point is 00:43:43 It was all because you didn't move away from it. He felt like I should have filled up and then moved my car forward into space. I've never seen anyone do that. That would have blocked someone else coming around and it would have been me, him. But what I think you got to know about was me doing that.

Starting point is 00:44:00 But all I was trying to say was like, I don't know what the fuck you're doing. If you got something to say, get out of the car. Well, that's what you did. But then he didn't say what he, like only after the fact that he's like, not, excuse me, would you mind, but like, you want to say, mate, there is a cue, there is a fixed rate of processing here. You're going to have to wait the same amount of time.

Starting point is 00:44:20 Do you remember when, anyway? It's an hour full up, man. No, I've had it. Nice. Do you remember when that guy got upset because I got near his beer? In Nando's beer. Oh, sure. Your reaction was very good to that, I thought.

Starting point is 00:44:31 Because the guy... I can't remember what he said to you. I mean, so I was walking down a set of steps in Nando's. We'd been for the food. And this guy was sat down with his family, like three in the afternoon on a Saturday having a beer. Like, as you do when you're a dad with your daughter. And I... We went down and I was the closest to the table as you walk in tandem.

Starting point is 00:44:50 You weren't lurching over the table. I was like at least two feet. I was at least two feet away from his beer. Right. And as I walked past he said, watch it mid and I turned around and looked at him, he was sat down and just looked. He said, you nearly hit me beer? Just went, oh, but walked off. Yeah, okay, awesome thing. Right, what was the life hack out of that? Philopsy, Cal, with the full, no, that wasn't your life hack.

Starting point is 00:45:21 It was you, so I am going to do, so when you go, no, you said one, and you just did what? So you've gone, no, that was just, that wasn't it. This is what happens. Why is it not a life hack ready? Yeah, I see. I'm about to go now, right?

Starting point is 00:45:38 I'm about to go now. I'm going to, but you're going to do and compare. VMD. I'm going to be your dean. And then you're going to go, you're going to, video garden can compare. VMD. I'm going to be garden. And then you're going to go. You're going to go after me, okay? Got it. So.

Starting point is 00:45:52 I was just a problem. I was just a problem. I was just a problem. That's what happens in this. Lots of fluid rushing around. Is the high pressure, isn't it? Yeah. Turjid.

Starting point is 00:46:00 I think if I squeeze it in a football pop. That's not. Because you've got good grip strength as well. Probably not enough to pop that. Okay. So, when you go away on holiday, especially if you're going away on a party holiday abroad, the best way, let's tell you, party, isn't it? The best way to make sure that your luggage is not wasteful and also to remove any torment from one. So, I'm so glad you raised it. And to get it confiscated by the Scottish women at the checkout, then woo her into letting

Starting point is 00:46:38 you take it. But then on the way back, get stopped by some angry German women at the airport who were like, Chris tried to take four kilos of treasurer me shampoo to Iceland for a three day trip. Well, it was the only size I had. I had nothing to decant it was all brand new and opened. I didn't have any shampoo. It was an awkward time of batching and I was booked by him. Anyway, it was more awkward with the shower.

Starting point is 00:47:08 It's not like eggs didn't it in Iceland and you had to kneel down. You did have to kneel down. You had to lie, didn't you? You just flat. I just lie and just douse myself in the tank. So when you go away, kilos of present-day shampoo make it better. When you are going away on holiday, plan your outfits for the night time in advance, ideally if you can plan the daytime as well, but rather than just arbitrarily throwing volumes

Starting point is 00:47:32 of clothes, underwear, socks, trousers, etc. So perfect example of this, we went away to Vegas from a business partner, Stagdoo, I was rooming with a guy, the guy who I was rooming with, planned his outfit for night one, 3 night 4 in advance including accessories so a handkerchief or a tie, a shirt, cufflinks, whatever he needed and then he got there, laid them out first one, second one, third one, fourth one. On an evening time he knew exactly what he was going to wear first advantage which is huge because you don't actually, you've outsourced the decision-making, not only to a time when you've got a little bit more awareness, but also to one way you're not on fucking holiday supposed to be enjoying yourself. And then secondly, he had no wastage of

Starting point is 00:48:15 curds, everything got won, nothing got wasted. And that's it. Like it is, it's an unbelievable tactic, and I can't believe, I guess I bet that girls do it. Actually, no, I bet that girls have a socky load. This is done, don't they? So I try and do it, but I, what's happened to me a couple of times is something's got dirty or like something's happened, and suddenly, the whole thing's out of store.

Starting point is 00:48:39 There are interdisarray. You know, you need two neutral pieces of buffer clothing. Yeah. You do pale blue shirt, parakeet blue jeans, floating t-shirts, it could be a couple of pairs of pants, spare pants, couple of pairs of spare socks, and that's it. But the key bits, if you get your blazer dirty, whatever go in your shirt, you'll be fine. Go topless.

Starting point is 00:49:03 Go topless, yeah, go to off. Tap this. Tap this. Tap south. Right. Is it me? Yeah. You weren't ready. Hey, Tobi, without you. I'm just a fellow. Keep doing it. Um, it looks like a turkey breast. Uh, one or... Okay. Spend time by yourself.

Starting point is 00:49:23 Ooh, nice. It's funny because there are people that spend, the only time they spend by themselves is when they're physically asleep. Yeah, like, probably with a partner next to them. So spend time by yourself. Do you mean spend time along with your own thoughts because you can be by yourself in a car driving,

Starting point is 00:49:44 but listen to the radio. Yeah, I think with people on your phone talking to people, they're still not by yourself. Good point also. Yeah. So for people who are interested in self-development, it's probably meditation. It's a good way of you are completely by yourself at that point and all that exists is you and your thoughts, but I think just trying to take time away from constantly trying to impress other people, I'm thinking of the standard kind of nine to five worker life, because I just think you can stimulus.

Starting point is 00:50:19 You things build up in you and left unchecked. Especially if you work with people, because then you're sat in other people's energy field constantly with crowded people, and you accumulate emotional fatigue as well, where if you're in a customer facing, or even if you're not, but particularly customer facing or client facing, service delivery type jobs, you have to maintain this kind of saccharine smile

Starting point is 00:50:43 all the time or a professional face that wears you down over time and then by the end of the day, that has to be shaken off and it can only really be done when you're charged with yourself for some time. And it's the reason why like, you know, you have the standard, someone comes home after a hard day at work or a day working where they have to talk to people and the partner's like, ah, how's it going? I don't want to talk to anyone. Give me a loan.

Starting point is 00:51:08 And they're the last person that you want to vent on. So it's one something I get, a benefit I get from the gym, even though I get a criticize that they have not very social. Like I quite like, it's just like me, a difficult task, my thoughts, it's not complicated. But you do have your phone.

Starting point is 00:51:27 I do have my phone. I do. So for me to upgrade that, the GIMM to get my phone, leave the phone behind you, use if you need track your lifts, use a white board, if you're a proper good gym or... I still haven't done that. That was Life Hikes 101 and I still need to... Put your phone away.

Starting point is 00:51:43 When do you give up your phone, you get the Apple trouble. Yeah, I think I'll need to replace it with another problem. So one of the problems is using obviously a modern phone for a lot of people is their music. Where they take notes. Sat nav. Yeah. So Bluetooth headphones fixes the music problem. No power and pen fixes track and left. So the time and long thing I like, you've said a model for people who maybe aren't doing as much introspective work. But then moving forward, if I, we've mentioned this before, I can't remember where, if you were told to go and sit in a room for 30 minutes on your own and you couldn't meditate with nothing, nothing to do, nothing stimulus. I would say even for me as an only child who spends the vast majority of his time on his own, that would be pretty testing.

Starting point is 00:52:37 So that, you know, moment, you know, the pro version of moment, I don't think, did you? You did. So on the phone boot camp thing of that, that was one of the tasks. And I ended up doing it. Did you? 30 minutes in a room without meditating. Not just sit on a chair. What happened? You just sit and think.

Starting point is 00:52:54 Like you just... What do you think about that? You do it in the house. Yeah. Is it knowing to be lost in thought when you spend a lot of time sat on your own in silence trying to not be lost in thought when you meditate? I don't.

Starting point is 00:53:02 I'd say at the time, I didn't give it that much thought. Weirdly. I was like, I'm just going to go sit there half an hour. It's not that long. That could come in. What are you doing? She's used to it now. Like, we're chipped early. So, like, are you facing the wall as well, facing the corner? So, it's just... I was just sat.

Starting point is 00:53:20 I think I, yeah, just sat looking at the ceiling. Fair enough. Well, I like the dressing test. Spend some time. I mean, you can double this up. There's so much low hanging fruit for stuff like this, you can double it up with going in nature. Like add that on top, go bare feet, go in grass, in nature, bare feet. Lovely. So much low hanging fruit for one thing. We'll be through this. I have no attraction to the nature thing. I don't know why. So apart from the beach, I like the beach. Every morning and every evening now, I'm doing probably maybe between two and five minutes of just standing outside and just even if it's rain, even if it's been it's been absolutely pouring down before, first thing in the morning, go outside and stand in the rain.

Starting point is 00:54:08 So I should say for those who want some kind of reason to do this, that there are physiological benefits to being at the beach, breathing the, the negative ions that are released from the salt and the sea, or from some kind of pheromone-like compound that trees release. So if you go into nature on lots of greenery, they have some kind of tranquilizing effect. You also looked, you did a metronalysis on birthing? Yeah, I mean to call it a metronalysis is a bit of a stretch, but yeah. I did, I looked at a lot of the research on stuff. On grounding, yeah, and that does,

Starting point is 00:54:46 as hippy-dippy as it sounds, have some standing on grass on their feet. So I think the main thing in my record is all... The main thing for me, aside from believing any of the woo-stuff, is I'd just like to be outside for a little bit. First thing in the morning, first, and last thing at night, after a shower,

Starting point is 00:55:02 hot shower, and then outside at the moment, it's really cold. But for some reason, just being able to look up at the sky, see the stars, see the moon, feel the wind broadly, it's really, really grounding and it's very present because you're forced with zero distractions, you're forced to only experience the sensations which you're occurring then and then. So it's got a nice... I think what I'm thinking about it, I think what has pissed me off about the whole thing is a business coach that told me to do it. Yeah. Isn't it horrible that people can spoil and think like that? Aubrey Marcus, I would love to try Bon broth, but he's just annoyed

Starting point is 00:55:39 you. Aubrey letting his bird get blasted all over by her boyfriend blasted. I was trying to take Texas to get pasted by some I would recommend salt and water salt and lemon and water. Would you? Yeah, but Aubrey says give it a shot. His wife Listen, Aubrey's in hospital with a half a face. How is he? What's he done? Crushed his car, got on his face. Unfortunately, it's still less burning man, though, didn't he?

Starting point is 00:56:12 Go on, Aubrey. Right, let's go on. So in last life hacks episode, we covered Toby, which is a chrome extension that allows you to put a bunch of stuff. It sounds lame, but to put a bunch of different things into it, so you can have a reading queue, a listening queue, a watching queue. And so it allows you to capture things that people send you and arrange them in a certain way. So very clever bookmark manager. Yeah, really, really good for that. And it allows you to have one across the top that's like

Starting point is 00:56:44 frequently visited websites. And also you can save sessions. So if you have multiple sessions open, multiple tabs open, you want to resume that later, you can save it all down and call it the name of a certain project. So you can have, like, if you're working on project for one thing and that requires four websites to be open, you can save it on there and so on.

Starting point is 00:57:00 So that's Toby. It's only available on Chrome. There isn't a phone equivalent. And so I needed something that allows me, when I don't have my laptop, and I want to work through the queue of articles that you guys have sent me. And I want to read them to be able to quickly access them without thinking, oh, where was it? Scroll back through the messages or any of that nonsense. And just be able to quickly resume that. So I use pocket for that. There is an equivalent app called InstaPaper. Now pocket is great, but they updated it last week to include a text to speech function. I thought it already had that. So they made it more natural

Starting point is 00:57:41 sounding now before it was like a... So they all voice. it'll speak a web page at you yeah but with it with a sort of series like voice it's a bit more natural so now I'm able to read articles that people have sent me on the drive to work in the morning that's cool read listen listen yeah which is it's pocket and terrible there is a paid version but what of the upgrade what you get you get Yeah, more than three highlights per article and no answer I'm the reason to pray because I when I was doing lots of commuting I remember thinking I wish I could read out and check it out the reddit. Yeah, I'd get it now because it's um

Starting point is 00:58:18 So there's a Mac version under phone version. They synchronize. Oh, it might even mean That like if you haven't got Toby all pocket yet, start with just pocket. You see, if you can expand up, I love Toby. Well, you know what I'd love to know, whether lots of other people have that need. I think the only reason that you would have that need is if you like to read stuff. Like Like if you're not, first off, if you're not getting sent or fired, discovering it a lot yourself, and then secondly, if you're not actually bothered about reading it, if loads of your friends send you shit that you don't care about, not problem. If your friends send you something, you just delete. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Yeah,

Starting point is 00:59:00 exactly. Remove the friend. I think what I normally do when people send me stuff, if it's an article, is I'll skim it, but it like books or podcasts, I'll do the full thing. And so I have a process that is audible and podcasts, but articles I tend to find. You have to capture it in process. Yeah, so I have a, on one the list, I have a reading list and I'm listening list. Okay.

Starting point is 00:59:22 For those two things. Not a good one,'m listening list. Okay. Look for those two things. That's a good one. Let's go. So, I'm going to go with six minute diary because Johnny, you have recently still doing it. Still going, man. So, six minute diary, anyone who's been listening for a little while, have heard me bring this up before. It is a daily

Starting point is 00:59:45 journal, three minutes and a morning, three minutes, evening prompted questions that are their geared towards things that science says makes you happier. So gratitude, long-term goals instantiated in a daily habit and looking for areas of improvement that's broadly where it works from. Before you start it, there's a 60-page buy-in which for anyone who does CrossFit will know what that is. It's a moderately large hurdle because it's small text and big pages. It's a lot of reading. It'll take you a few days to get through the 60 pages depending on your reading speed. And there's like 40 references, I think in that. So it's very impressive.

Starting point is 01:00:26 It's not just, someone hasn't just put together some space to eat the right some gratitude and good deeds and stuff. There's a lot of thinking behind the book. The quotes that are done every day, pretty. You know what I think is the best part about it for me is the weekly questions. Oh, that awesome. So yeah, every day, you do three minutes in the morning,

Starting point is 01:00:46 three minutes in the evening. Some days it takes a little longer, obviously. But broadly, I think that's probably not far off how long it takes. And it encourages you, Suzanne Haaland, the what science may take, what science says makes you happy, a podcast that I did with her, on that she said that gratitude is the foundation for happiness

Starting point is 01:01:06 And this is a really good tool to develop doing some gratitude I've never once kept up with the journal before but I have done with the 6 minute diary and yeah every week there are some fairly probing questions that Force you to do some introspective work. So if you've never actually got round to doing Force you to do some introspective work. So if you've never actually got round to doing any self-inquiry and Some introspective stuff. I think it's a really good place to start if you think our meditation might be a bit woo woo for me Or you struggle to slow yourself down a little bit. I think it's a first step in the introspective work It's 19 pounds on Amazon

Starting point is 01:01:41 It'll be net. It's on it's got Amazon Prime and it's fantastic. So I bought one for my sister, she bought one for two of her friends, E-Kidding. Since you got yours. That's fantastic. I think it's what I like about it is for me to sit and explain to someone like I think you should be doing some introspection and try and gratitude and it's like they don't listen. If you just buy them something, it's a nice gift. And they that intro takes it takes them through the benefits. And it's so low commitment. Yeah. It's a good, it's a good, it does take a lot of boxes.

Starting point is 01:02:19 It's the right price point for a good present for someone like 20 quid. It's a good, good price point to get someone a present. It's a low investment in yourself. It lasts for five months and they've just released the six minute diary pure. It's the seven month one. So between the first one that you get with the intro bit and the second one you get full 12 months. Between two, but you don't need to buy in again on the second one. Yeah, got it. Not the same thing, but I've got two sex. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:02:48 60 pages are taken up with two of course. And, yeah, I honestly could not recommend it. The thing that I've still not done that I really want to do is the bit, the first task they tell you to do is send, there are loads of services that you can do, so send an email and send it back to you. Send back to me. Yeah. a lot of services that you can do to send an email and it'll send it back to you. So it says send an email to yourself in five months time of like stuff you're worrying about, where you think that'll, where you'll be.

Starting point is 01:03:13 Mine came through to me. I sent one about five, six years ago. Oh my God. And it came through to me the other month. I forgot what it said. I think it was nothing, nothing, nothing, it profound then. No, it was, I think it was like the struggles that I had at the time and all that stuff, I look back and I was like,

Starting point is 01:03:28 really? Yeah, which was nice. Pussy. So have you said that one? No, I should do it. We should all do it. Fine. That would be good to have you.

Starting point is 01:03:37 And so should you indeed. So Johnny, you're up next. Should we do one more round each? Or have you got some, you got a couple of quick ones if you wanna do any quick ones? I've got loads of quick ones. So this is a bit nasty, but it's related to some of the stuff that I've been considering with the weekly questions in the six minute diary. But just, so keeping with the idea that everyone is caught up in the sort of the struggle for happiness

Starting point is 01:04:12 and feeling better and earning more blah, blah, blah, asking yourself very probing questions to try and just check that you're on the right path for you and you're making decisions that are right for you. So things like, if I died tomorrow, whatever you're happy with how my life has been so far, do I feel like I'm making the right decisions? Do I feel like I'm setting good examples for other people? When am I truly happy?

Starting point is 01:04:40 When am I truly sad? Where am I sedating to try and get away from the critical questions or the critical things that are really bothering me? And it's linked to spending time alone and thinking about these things because I think with that stuff, people talk about self-development and think that that means that they should start reading or that they should start meditating, but actually just sitting and thinking about those questions that are often very difficult to think about. Like, am I actually happy without my life is now?

Starting point is 01:05:10 Like, do I spend good chunks of my time in a good mood or in a bad mood? Who is it that promotes those things? Who is it that worsens those things? The clues in the name, right, self-development, it's an inquiry of the self. But that stuff's not an app and it's not trendy and it's really shit to say. That's the about page of the new modern wisdom website, which will be up at some point,

Starting point is 01:05:33 is said in that, um, introspective work is an ugly business and for every one rock that you turn over, which is clean underneath, there's 20, which are filthy and something terrifying is hiding below. which is clean underneath, there's 20 which are filthy and something terrifying is hiding below. And he like that's exactly, that's the accurate proportion as well. Yeah, if you do a little bit of self-inquery and nothing comes up, you're like, what do you have? And all that you can be certain of is that the next 19 can be fucking shit. So relate it to that. So relate it to that. Asking yourself, like, why am I posting on social media? Why am I drinking?

Starting point is 01:06:08 Why am I bitching about this person? I'm just sitting and thinking because there's always like a... Everyone's experienced like... Here, here. Real why behind something. I just think I think there's a tendency for... I don't want to think about that because it's uncomfortable. So I'll just do this other thing instead.

Starting point is 01:06:24 Is there a guiding principle or a guiding mantra that people can use to bring themselves back to finding the truth and to avoid hiding or to avoid taking the first easy answer that comes to mind when they ask themselves those questions? It's gonna be your worry. Yeah, so one way to really leverage the power of the unconscious mind, the unconscious mind

Starting point is 01:06:46 is simply every thought that you are not looking at right now is not some mysterious thing. 95, 95% of our actions every day. I just driven my unconscious. So there are deeper levels below that, which maybe we're not aware of until we start to do, until we start to do more digging deep. But the unconscious mind is very good at pulling together, lots of cross correlations of unrelated stuff and processing large volumes of data

Starting point is 01:07:14 while you're not paying attention to it, that the brain's always kind of just sifting things over and dealing with that. So if you ask yourself a question that you're not immediately sure of the answer of, you could ask yourself before bed, mull it over for a while, hold it in your consciousness, and then drop it and go to sleep, and then just sleeping and allowing it to process on its own, but with the conscious running intention to answer it, we'll then start to bring up more and

Starting point is 01:07:39 more answers. And you'll have definitely experienced this where you'll have had a problem that you just didn't think about for a while. A few days later, the answer pops into your head because it's just been processing in the background or you read a book. And then actually, concepts from the book start to make a bit more sense after you've had a couple of nights sleep. And it comes together again. Greg, what's his name? Greg Potter.

Starting point is 01:08:00 Greg Potter talked about this as well, same concept. So asked before bed, especially the probing ones and the ones that may be uncomfortable to answer. I mean a lot of them are double done on that as well. You can like start taking a dream journal and in the mornings don't move like once you wake up, I know it's hard to remember to do this, but just stay in the same position and try and verbally recall as much of your dream as you had as you can. And then do that for a few days. Once you've done that, you get into the habit of teaching your brain to remember your dreams, write them down, and sometimes symbols do come up in dreams, and they usually quite obvious. The dream symbology is the much research behind that.

Starting point is 01:08:40 Not the like, some people have gone full woo woo and taken like if you see a spider it means this and if you see cat-bedg it means it but like I think ultimately you will be aware enough of that if you write it down then give it a few hours and you know it's really painful as someone who first off tries to promote reduction in tech use and second these working hard on it on his own First off tries to promote reduction in tech use and second these working hard on it on his own. I have a lot of dreams that are being on my phone. The right on your phone. I am on my phone. Which is like being tortured while you're asleep.

Starting point is 01:09:14 That's in my equivalent of being tortured while, honestly. So the way to lose a dream is to like check your phone or your watch, look away and then look back and if the numbers are scrambled or they're different. Think through your hand. Think through your hand, yeah. But then if you're so the numbers are scrambled or they're different. Think three-hand. Think three-hand, yeah. But then if you're so good at looking at your phone and your dream, you can have a full WhatsApp group chat. Well, that's exactly what it is.

Starting point is 01:09:34 That's like the bypass thing for the breaths that I've managed to do with meditation. You should fall into it, automatic thinking. Well, I'd be able to get to, I think I'd definitely given a full day day be able to get to a thousand. So there's a way I've found around that. Okay, so what I've started doing is start at the bottom of my left nostril, right? So this I mean this is this is like Crayola meditation, so forgive me. So breath focus on just about my left nostril, 20 breaths, and then I'm slightly round by left nostril, 20 breaths. And then I move slightly around my left nostril and I change when I count the breath.

Starting point is 01:10:10 So I might be like one, two. To keep yourself aware. But you've got a massive PB on it. I did. Breath to be successful. Two 84, two 84. Thank you, ladies. But so then every 20 breaths, you move the location

Starting point is 01:10:23 and just change when you when you know the breath So I was through like breath one. Are you doing one one? In and out is one breath. Yeah. Yeah, yes, and what's so weird is I can move all the way around my nostril And it's laser focus on my left nostril I'm like so where my left nostril switching my right nostril isn't close impossible I'm like no no how's my Last some left I might, no, no, that's what I've done. Last but not the last. I'll fit it right.

Starting point is 01:10:47 I've got it. I'm going to write a hemisphere of your brain is responsible for viewing and sensing everything on the left hand side of your body. Right. And the left hemisphere is responsible for that. And the left and right are also responsible for different thought patterns. Different things. So I wouldn't, I wouldn't, if perhaps the left side of your brain is struggling a little bit more with the line for that. So what it feels like is just, because by the time I change nostrils, it's like 150 breaths of just, what I haven't think about for like 15 minutes,

Starting point is 01:11:20 just this natural, and it feels like changing is quite challenging. Big old wall to get over. The thing that you've said after is retreat of like people getting really caught up in the complexies of meditation and the guy just kept saying, fucks any fucking breath, tip of your nose. Yeah, the teacher was very good at like for five days. There's the daily meeting with the teacher and everyone gets to go up and speak to him for five minutes and people have these little stories about like and the only practice you have in the first five days is focus on this part. It's all you do for ten hours. I'm experiencing this thing and I'm struggling with here and I'm getting this tingling sense and he's like just focus on the breath.

Starting point is 01:12:05 and he'd be like, just focus on the breath. Keep your attention on the nose, on the inhale, and on the exhale, and between the breaths. You have three jobs. You do. You do. I'm a ten. I'm a ten. I'm a ten.

Starting point is 01:12:19 I'm a ten. I'm a ten. I'm a ten. I'm a ten. I'm a ten. I'm a ten. I'm a ten. I'm a ten. I'm a ten. I'm a ten. Yeah, sick to death. What did maybe 20 say? Maybe 20 didn't say anything. Of course you don't. So whenever he was called up he would be like, I love maybe 20. Maybe 20.

Starting point is 01:12:36 It's really deep. For anyone who doesn't know the story about when use if went away in a meditation retreat he sat down opposite an Indian man. So yeah, on the first day before they put down the noble silence and there was an Indian man in a skirt and I was like, hi, is this your first retreat and he was like, no, okay, have you been on any before? Maybe 20? I'm like, wow, this guy, maybe 20 man, I 20 maybe 20 maybe 20 because he has to change it all the time we better get him now maybe 21 now yeah it must be bearing in mind that every retreats 100 hours and this man's done 20. Out maybe 20.

Starting point is 01:13:27 Is there someone called out maybe 20? I'm just trying to do. It's about at least seven months. Maybe 20? Well, he's on 21. I'm not assuming he has no practice outside of meditation which is very unlikely. Oh yeah, true.

Starting point is 01:13:39 Maybe 20? Seven rate months of. So you know, time of detention. Because the reason that I count my breaths derailing this But the reason I count my breath is because your podcast of Daniel and Grim Where you need to listen to it? You said just like give me a which is what I was like you said just for how I'm gonna ask him like what how do I start? of meditation and he was just saying if you just sit for 20 minutes and you kind of like vaguely focused like that's an okay session

Starting point is 01:14:03 If you get to a hundred breaths good session, try and get to 1000. Just use it as a way of measuring. It just makes sense to me how I do everything else in my life. That's a wrap. And it's very transparent, very measurable. Have you tried the one where you do this is what I've done? And this is the headspace one. Breathe in and out for one.

Starting point is 01:14:23 Up to 10s and down to the legs. And count to 10 and then stop the focus on the breath completely, completely blank the mind and allow all thoughts to just be reflections in the pool. So you're not actually focusing on anything and that's a really good one because that's as much silence as you can get without attaching yourself. Because when you're focusing on the breath, you are still focusing on the thought of this is the sensation. This is the number. So it doesn't feel like that because it it's sensation sensation and it's almost like the thought. because it's sensation, sensation, and it's almost like the thought of God. Sensation, sensation, sensation, thought, no fuck off, without the sensation at all is what this next bit was. It was interesting. I feel like we're getting,

Starting point is 01:15:16 can you focus on nothing? Is this flood like versus spotlight here? There's a third, so you... I don't know if you want to get into this. Spotlight is you have an objective meditation and you're focusing on that. Flood light is that you have open focus and you are the point of awareness that anything is going through... Any sensation of awareness? That's what you focus on.

Starting point is 01:15:41 So flood light, there is no object, you are just... What's the third? ...open focus. The third one is the self-inquiry, which is similar to flood light, there is no object. You are just, what's the open focus? The third one is the self inquiry, which is similar to flood light, but you are turning the, the subject of consciousness back on itself. Like, who is it that's thinking?

Starting point is 01:15:55 Yeah. Who is it that's here in the Lord? It's weird because conceptually, like you can't taste your own tongue or feel your own finger or see your own eye. I can. What's that going? What's that I can. Of course I can. Of course I can.

Starting point is 01:16:06 I can. I can. Yeah. Like Chris can believe it's not butter as well. So are you saying that before? Yeah, earlier on. It's on the lifeline. And he thinks Marmite's okay.

Starting point is 01:16:18 Yeah. So one of the few. Mine, it's so, did we do sinus rinse? No. Last time. No. I am obsessed with the Neal do sinus rinse? No. Last time. No. I am obsessed with the Neal Med sinus rinse. I got this from Dr. Clay Height, who's a natural body builder, old T-Nation guy.

Starting point is 01:16:35 He's a body builder. He's a body builder. He play like lifting weights. And so I have a confession. Okay. I used mine. Right.. I didn't record me using it. Oh, no. So knocking dramatic happened. Didn't it? Well, I've got a video of dramatic things happening using my sinus rinse. So I can send it to video mandin. And he can. So it decide when it's really nice. What is it? So what it is? He is eating. And it's recommended by ENT, ENOZEN, through

Starting point is 01:17:07 doctors as well, because if you have chronic sinusitis, lots of sinus infections, ATP, hay fever, any of those kind of things where sinuses are blocked, ATP, like so if you get a general constellation of like X-mer and HFE-ver and it she knows and all that stuff, go and just check this out. Watch the video of me doing it. We're like, oh, I want to do that. It's a bottle, a squeezy bottle of saline solution and you squeeze it into your nostril,

Starting point is 01:17:39 comes out the other nostril and clears out all of the gunk that's in your nose at the same time. Do it in the morning. You must have to position your tongue in you. So you have to get your mind. Go for it. So you said something about this, right? I would have said, I'm standing in my bathroom, bottle, salt, read the back.

Starting point is 01:18:01 Do you not use tap water? So I cast back the ice and I use tap water. I use tap water. It's not the sort of thing that you, I do not use tap water, so I cast back to Iceland. I use tap water, it's not the sort of thing that you, I'll just use bottle water, bottle water, put the salt in and then so I point up nose and squeeze. Never do it without the salt as well, it nacks. Really? Yeah, with the salt, perfectly painless and lovely, but without the salt, it's not. It's like you've done a backflip and a pool and you know, you like, you Oh, all right. It's horrible. So there I am, bottle in my nose and I'm thinking like rationally, what do I understand

Starting point is 01:18:31 about my nose? Like I think that this goes up and then probably in and then I imagine down and I breathe. Like that goes in my lungs. Yeah. I don't want to go in my lungs. When it says, come out the nostril, I'm thinking, well, how can that happen? But here I go. So you have to bend down, suppose that's what prevents it from. And you squeeze, and there's a delay, like squeezing, like, that happens. You feel you feel your face fill up, it just goes, shhh, you're like, you've got it for the first time, people don't always get it for it. I really, I think I'm so used to just, you're going to very just follow me in this, probably

Starting point is 01:19:16 yeah. Things, things that feel a bit unusual, bit strange, going to do it anyway. Do you have a nanoma? No, would you? Yeah, you let this video in. bit strange. It's going to do it anyway. Do you have a nanoma? No. Would you? Yeah. Did you like this video? Not the first time. From the top half. A caffeine nanoma. Ben Greenfield's big into them. What is a caffeine nanoma? Just coffee in your bum. Okay. I'm not convinced. As soon as you say coffee. Maybe 20. Maybe 20. I think it's a very pseudo-scientific thing, but people love it.

Starting point is 01:19:47 Why is it good to have it so put up your bum? I don't think it is. I think it's... Rubin healthy bacteria and shit. Is it good to have anything put up your bum? Any liquids put up your bum? Like, should people have water put up their bum? Sail line?

Starting point is 01:19:58 Is it good to have anything up your bum? So is it endomers just having a reference? Sail line up your bum and all the poo come out? Yeah, I mean, I think unless there's a problem and you need to I would stay away from putting things in the pub I mean I think that's a safe several million years of evolution Would have programmed something in as a guy

Starting point is 01:20:18 You know, business that's just putting Poo up people's bombs. Who? Oh, yeah, yeah, who like people with problems. He putting poo up people's bones. Poo. Oh yeah. Yeah, who? Like, people with problems, he puts poo up, pop poo. They don't have the poo that's right poo, I've got the proper poo. And so he gets people they've got their good poo. And he puts the poo, they put the good poo up that way. Johnny, I would pay you to teach medicine.

Starting point is 01:20:40 Just like, so what you have to do is like, read the textbook, process it into, kind of speech, right. How much would I have to pay you to let me put someone else's poo in your bum without medical supervision? No, medical supervision. So, so hold on, so do I need to poo at my bum? No. So you're just putting it at my bum? As you are right now, how are you going to do it? Well, however, I'm advised by the medical person, I mean. Okay. It's a proper procedure, but it's someone else's boot. 250 grand.

Starting point is 01:21:16 200, so you wouldn't do for 100 grand? 100 grand. 100 grand, you wouldn't put someone else's boot up, you bum. So I understand that when I say yes, you'll go 90, because this is what I do to people, because I do it all the time. For the sake of this podcast, 250 grand. One's a shopper.

Starting point is 01:21:32 Thank you for all the money. One's a shopper calling you and I can have I think I've some kind of thing. I think you've priced this out at the market. Well, there is no market. This is the market. No, then if you want to put PURMA on. And I think you're going to find a buyer for that.

Starting point is 01:21:42 But the Chris is the only buyer. I'm not selling. I'm not doing. I'm not doing. I'm not doing. But you are selling $250 grand. It's like someone coming up to you saying, I want your house. Like there's a level of hassle associated

Starting point is 01:21:54 that's irrelevant of the price. Right, but you just factor that into the price. Which I've done? $250 grand. Make you an over price in your ass. In your opinion I mean you're the master of your own if you want to put in my bum There's a number how much would you how much you'd have to pay you to put your own poo back in your bum?

Starting point is 01:22:20 Well using a tool or just I'm doing it this time. No, you're doing it, but it's your poo and you know you're actually doing this I'm not gonna be right I see plot thickens He's playing with the variables here again. Is it met at BC providers? Yes By the exact same it's every people at like are your mates that are doctors or not by him right? He's not there. He's gone Do that for I day that for 50 grand. So to put you 100 you're back in your 200 grand is the differential between someone else's poo and your poo. Yeah. 200 grand. What you worried about?

Starting point is 01:22:55 Just these is just arbitrary figures Chris. And what am I worried about? I mean, you've just ruined it. What are I'm worried about? Someone else's poo and that Yusef has just said, I would stay clear for anything at people. Fidium and Deans think in like I've brought extra batteries. I'm charged. It's time for what I really want to know. Okay here guys. I mean what I really want to know is how much would you have to be paid to have someone else's poo put up your arm?

Starting point is 01:23:20 Is the person whose poo it is disease free? Yes. Oh. Yes. Oh, fine. Well, yeah, how much? 50 grand. And how much for your own poo? 1000 pounds.

Starting point is 01:23:35 A thousand pounds. A thousand big discount there, mate. I'll take it. Because your fact of differentiation is much way to the mind. Yeah, well to be honest, I do a bit of reading, give me two hours and I'll come back with a revised offer, I might lower it,

Starting point is 01:23:54 I might drop it to the two round. Why would you lower it? There's no incentive to lower it. If he's agreed to pay it. I haven't agreed to pay it. You would, I'm caught from a million quiz on the bargain. Yeah, you are. You are a bargain. Plus let's be honest. It would be more funny if I do. It would make for good content. It would be fantastic content. Right. My final one. What am I going to do? Okay, so I've mentioned this on the how to get lean for your summer holiday podcast, but

Starting point is 01:24:28 didn't go into it with quite so much detail or as much further. Skier and natural set yoghurt. I swear every life hacks do you say Skier? skier. And it's always like, oh, that's a new one. I feel like every time you get annoyed and I'm like Chris, honestly mate, I couldn't agree more. Do you remember when you just after, just shortly after I nearly died nice and of cold, when You and I got back to the... Was this what we got? Flat drenched. This was the first night. Yeah. The night after I'm very... Honestly, close to death. Got back and I'd bought strawberry skin. And I just remember thinking this is, honestly, I was like, I'm alive. But I wouldn't be able to replicate it. It was so nice.

Starting point is 01:25:22 I think we'd all convinced ourselves that because it was Icelandic. Like, because that Icelandic people are really good at convincing you that if something's Icelandic, it's worth nine and a half thousand pounds, and it'll be really nice. Well, they just call it even the butter. The butter. It's just like the Icelandic butter.

Starting point is 01:25:36 Icelandic water. Coffee and so you're like, oh, Icelandic butter, that, eating it with a spoon, you're like, but the skier was brilliant, bloody lovely. What's crazy to me is that Aala, the dairy company, so I don't like them, have managed to buy the word skier. Wow. Yeah, that is interesting, because that's like someone

Starting point is 01:25:57 opening yoghurt in China. So I bet the Icelandic people are just like, it's like someone who doesn't care. We have enough ski, all the jiffy all of us. As I've experienced first hand, their skier is superior. It's head and shoulders above you.

Starting point is 01:26:10 And it's like, you wouldn't bother you if it was in the back. The mic was on it, I wouldn't believe it. It's a protein supplement, essentially. It is, if you earned a company for the argument sake, it was like the name of a fruit and you made bikes. And then another company that was also called

Starting point is 01:26:25 the name of that fruit was able to sue you because they had a monopoly on a fruit. You'd think that was ridiculous. And yet, skier, an own skier. They can own a type of dairy product. I don't know if I'm at liberty to say any of these words. If we get a season deceased, we will.

Starting point is 01:26:52 What do you think about Fahe? Fahe? Fahe? F age is not last pronounced. F age. Total theogas. You must have done. No.

Starting point is 01:27:04 You would have seen it. It's like the Emperor of the day. It's always in the supermarkets. It's like the big... It's five quid. Total. Yeah. Made by Farhe. That that didn't get.

Starting point is 01:27:14 Farge total is. Farge, so that zero, not the, because some people buy the two or the full. If you buy a full fat yoggit, it is, it's I've been punched in the stomach. It's just full fat calories wise. It's the full fat coke argument again, isn't it? What are you drinking full fat coke for? You had it with four double calories, man. I have it with.

Starting point is 01:27:35 Johnny had a kilo thing of yogurt with four double decas in it. Go ahead, my macros, man. Is this one you were, so the other thing, the great thing about, no, I was cutting it at the time. The great thing about both of them, double decker is a 250 calorie serving of mainly carbs and fat, fantastic.

Starting point is 01:27:51 So you can't complete macromere if you just have four double deckers in. A tub of totally august is roughly 50 grams of protein, little bit of carbs, zero fat. Mix them together, what have you got? You've got a creamy double decker base dessert. I'd rather have like a fish and chips. Me too. Was that available double dacquabase dessert. I'll have like efficient chips Me too. Was that a very good other time?

Starting point is 01:28:07 Fish and chips. I was in Tesco. I was in Sainsbury. I see trying to try to make ends meet Instead of making ends meet. I just made my fitness month meet yogurt and double dacquab Well, I really agree. I think Tesco own brand low-fat yoghurt low- fat Greek salioggert. Yep, it is there. So you want that? So you want scoop, one scoop of protein powder, some blueberries, a little bit of mix nuts. Honey? No.

Starting point is 01:28:33 Oh, I got half of it. Don't need the carbs. When do you mean you don't need the carbs? It's not about the carbs. This is a man who just ate a sorely and then went into a pot of yoghurt. That made pot of carbs. That didn't all happen. I didn't know what happened.

Starting point is 01:28:45 Yogurt is the most common of my life. Like, so many things go with yogurt for me. I did. If I don't know what to have, it starts with yogurt. Well, cheese. It's the cheese of the sweet world, isn't it? It is. I mean, like, it's literally everything.

Starting point is 01:29:01 Cheese is the savoury yogurt. It's just cheese just unfortunately. They try to make high protein low-fat cheeses and it just doesn't cut. I've seen it, that blue stuff. It's not very nice. It tastes like tasteless parmesan. It's got this texture parmesan

Starting point is 01:29:15 without the rich flavors. Fuck it, man. How do you feel about dairy? Good. Yeah. But I'm having to limit it because of my estrogen experiment. There's a lot of things I can't do with my estrogen experiment.

Starting point is 01:29:29 But does it seem? principally six weeks. How many weeks? Six weeks. I'll be so long to be going. I'll retest my whole name six weeks. Yeah, and then we'll find out. I think what will happen is it'll be slightly different but we'll be looking at two isolated sets of data that anything

Starting point is 01:29:46 could be influencing and you'll just not touch receipts. I just want to get back to using shower gel. Yeah. And because currently you're using E-cover washing up liquid. You're using in a ceramic. Can we in a ceramic part? Can we just say the sentence again of what you're doing in the shower? So I use E-cover washing up liquid, I'm not using shampoo, as that's another experiment writing

Starting point is 01:30:09 about it. I didn't go for the apple cider vinegar thing, so I think you just need your head to stink. I'm glad that there's lines in the sign about what's too weird. Yeah, I think so. Because it's all under like what might the GMC take a shoe with? If you just stayed at home all day, it didn't have to go anywhere. I think you'd be using Apple Tiber when you're right now. Probably. So, got rid of lavender spray or lavender products. Normal candles had to get beeswax candles.

Starting point is 01:30:40 Edamame beans. Edamame beans not allowed. No cologne, no thought, no fragrances, minimize dairy, fat. Switch my toothpaste. Oh, dad, she can have lofah. You can have fahe, yogurt. Yeah, a couple.

Starting point is 01:30:53 I've had a non-fluoridated toothpaste called Uthymal, which is like the 1913th, one that's like this. It's just taste of cologne. Armand hammer. Cologne. Armand, it's really like, oh, yeah. No, yeah like, you can't touch carpets or vinyl floor. What other floor is there? This will be that vinyl. Yeah, not touching

Starting point is 01:31:15 receipts and then the E.Cover washing out liquid and a steel protein shaker. Wow, that's me. The steel protein shakers. No, the my steel protein shakers, which both fantastic. Yeah, so good Pisses all over normal ones anyway. Thank you very much. What have we got coming up? How to run your own business and the dangers that are associated with going on your own strength training truth as a superpower Relationships 103 What else have we got a whole bunch of questions that we need to go through. We should do a Q&A.

Starting point is 01:31:49 We should do another Q&A interview. Video Mandy. Video Gardene. What about? Video Mandy. All of the... The strongholds of these guys. The VGD.

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