Modern Wisdom - #056 - Life Hacks 107

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Starting point is 00:01:45 Let's go, Lifehacks 107. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. It is Lifehacks 107 with Jonathan Watson and you see from propnipfitness.com. You ever say boys and girls? You always just say ladies and gentlemen. It's 18 plus early. Must be 18 plus to follow. Fair enough. This is an adult program for adult people.

Starting point is 00:02:22 So Lifehacks has been ages since we've done a life hack house. Welcome back. It's been like, this is the first one of 2019 as well. I spoke to someone today on the phone who said they loved life hacks and I told him where we're calling the next one today. And he said I cannot wait. It's consistently the best performing in terms of, I think it's just so actionable. Anyway, first things first, today's episode is brought to you by the protein works.

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Starting point is 00:03:49 The only criteria is we pick the supplements. Yeah, that's it. So it's being careful what you're picking. Pick something good for us. But yes, pop your favourite life hack in the comments below. Let us say, if you're listening, there is a link to the YouTube channel in the show notes. Head there, give us a comment.

Starting point is 00:04:03 And yeah, we'll pick someone. Should say, by the way, hydrolyzed way, although it's a very rapidly absorbed protein, hydrolysis is digestion, and so it tastes a vomit, and when I say, it's not like, well, I mean, it tastes a vomit, it's horrible, it actually tastes a vomit. It is what vomit tastes like the same flavor.

Starting point is 00:04:23 Fine, right, who is going to go first? Johnny Hupptator, are you Johnny O'er? Well, you always do. Johnny, go on. We did a podcast either day with a guy who I didn't really know much about. We had a lot of qualifications. Lots of letters.

Starting point is 00:04:34 I'm just open with. Johnny, do you want to do the introduction? I'm not fucking out. Don't be here. He got the guy on the podcast. So my first life hack is get a dog nice. So I mean the thing is to me and my social circle is like it not make people I know have dogs, there'll be people listen this you've like had a dog five years. Fuck you all about me. Like I got a dog first.

Starting point is 00:05:00 Like don't be, don't be trying to get one over on me with your dog. But you are the first in this circle of... I'm getting a dog, yeah, we've got it in there. So it does just... Up level, the amount of time you smile on laugh. That's great. Which I think is with... I mean, they're expensive. I've seen the new, marble benefits for you in having Dexter.

Starting point is 00:05:24 I've seen a few downsides as benefits for you in having Dexter. I've seen a few downsides as well. There are downsides going to be. Yeah. So this week he's been unwell, which has meant I had to sleep on the sofa, which has been why? Because he was waking up to shit two, three times in the night. Okay.

Starting point is 00:05:40 I'm being sick. I'm being sick. So it's more convenient to just be the illiterate, yeah, to... I'm just like, I'll just limit my down side. It's a really big commitment. It must be, it's like the tester for having a kid. Right, so exactly. So how, how you find me it?

Starting point is 00:05:55 Because that would be for me, I'm especially for me as well, and any of the only children that are listening will know the degree of independence and non-fuckery that you give about the rest of the world. It's just you, sono, single dick out swinging it around. How has it been having to not only be responsible for another life, but also think very carefully about what someone else's needs are? It's difficult. Is it? Really? Well, so like you say, so it went from, it was just me and my girlfriend and I'm in together,

Starting point is 00:06:29 and you just have a life that you don't even think about, like the little things in your routine, and suddenly this thing that's like requires constant management. And you can't, like, doesn't have a bank account. He's not a bit of a car. Like, he can't do anything himself, can't feed himself. I have to do everything for him. And even when he wants to cut out, it's not my piece of a shit. Like, either he doesn't do anything himself, can't feed himself. I have to do everything for him. And even when he wants to cut up a piece of a shit,

Starting point is 00:06:47 like either he does it in the house or I have to say it right, it's now time for your toilet time. Let's go do something about it. See how that and also it's, so it's made me really, I've been thinking this week actually. So like there was a night when both Becker and I were sleeping on the sofa. And it's like, we scrunched on the sofa and it's 3am

Starting point is 00:07:08 And Dexter wakes up and he's like barking. He's like, oh, and you hang on You're both sleeping on the sofa. Hmm You're two, I mean yeah, respect to Becker, but she's a long girl. Yeah, I know and you are a long wide human. Yep How big is this sofa? Not big like not big enough It's a dog on the sofa. No, the dog's on the floor I think that you're taking liberties with the furniture here mate. Okay, like I think there are wide So it's a bit like this where there's a there's a wide bum cushion for the sofa It's it is this shape I should I should I should I mean do you sleep at a right angle?

Starting point is 00:07:41 So one of us sleeps that way one of us sleeps that way, one of us sleeps that way. What is it? What is it? Head to head. Feet it. Feet it. Yeah. Why? I don't know, it just feels natural.

Starting point is 00:07:52 Okay. What would you... I didn't know it was the worst combination, I think. Okay. This is blown up. This whole situation has blown me away. Well, okay, so that's not the story. So that's what we've been doing. And so you wake up

Starting point is 00:08:06 up three in the morning and neither of you wants to wake up and do it, but you've got to navigate that. So that's quite testing on a relationship. So I can only imagine that's like a week of six months without him. You not that have a long fun him And I suppose a dog lifespan it like they grow more rapidly. Yeah, yeah, so that period of time Disapace very quickly. Maybe like I don't know. What is it like two years when you have a kid I'm gonna wake up in the middle of the night and stuff like that You maybe but maybe a bit less I think based on it almost feels like you should if you think about having a kid You should be made half dog versus yeah, and then like if your relationship lasts that it goes well then so good prep for having a kid improve the amount of laughs and smiles in

Starting point is 00:08:51 Newhouse. It's got you out the house more as well. The out the outdoor thing for me would be a so you would be a social So steps consistently 10,000 consistently 10,000 is a lot of steps as well. So there is in atomic habits James clear He's 10,000 is a lot of steps as well. So there is in atomic habits, James Clear. He talks about, I want to say it's strategic choices or crucial choices with a downstream implication. I can't remember the specific term that he uses, but he talks about single purchase or single decisions which have multiple downstream benefits.

Starting point is 00:09:21 And the first one, and this book is like the fucking Bible for habit setting. Not read something that's so implementable in a lot of it. Very good. And then the top one is if you're area that you're looking to improve on his happiness. Buy a dog. Just get a dog. Like, I mean, if James fucking clear says it. Yeah. Well, so it does definitely, like, it's a, it is a start increase, but there's just a Cost with that that increase. So huge asymmetric. I'm gonna. Yeah, but things like so the stuff I thought it would it would knack and Right to this is stuff like I'll never get a wrong one again like I'll never you know my mornings will be trapped

Starting point is 00:10:02 Did you do it with you so this morning he actually did and like I'll never, you know, my mornings will be trashed. Does he do it with you? So this morning he actually did do it with me. Yeah, but is he good at puppy dog? So he's fucking, obviously brilliant at puppy dog. Like he owns that. Yeah, that's his pose. Cause downward dog, it's weirdly,

Starting point is 00:10:15 he doesn't do proper downward dog because of your puppy. Right. So he does a proper and he gets his head all the way through and like, so like, you know, my lats are so tight. Yeah. But Daniel, if you are listening, Daniel, voice of Rob, can we have dog ward, please? Dog ward would be good. Split screen, fucking mint. That would be good. They do do dog yoga, I think. Fuck knows what that involves, but fair enough. But so actually, I have to do all that stuff,

Starting point is 00:10:44 so I have to meditate, rumble, whatever, before a certain time, before he needs to be out. So it's actually created, like, just an unavoidable, I can't get out of it, like that's not negotiable. So you've Parkinson's law, time box, tomorrow routine. Yeah. But I suppose the one problem is that if you have a very naughty dog or one that's chaotic with it's sleeping routine, if it gets up at five one day seven the next day the next day. Yeah, dogs are very dogs thrive off

Starting point is 00:11:10 routine. So if you keep a dog in a routine especially when it's a puppy and you create the routine for the dog it just so interestingly. So you've actually had a benefit from routineizing your life around the dog around the dog. That's great. So if you like a lot of people you have a dog and work, nine to five, and come home at lunch or whatever. If they then work from home in the morning, they'll find the dog just sleeps all morning because that's what it's been used to doing.

Starting point is 00:11:33 And it plays an evening order. So yeah, so ex-quite expensive. More expensive than I thought it was going to be insurance, dog food, the things out of it. The other thing that is, a really annoying is the way that Vets pricing works. So you'll be in the Vets with dog and they'll go, we're just going to run test, test, test. And as you leave, the perception goes, I love the £120, you know what? What do you mean? No one mentioned, I can't refund it because

Starting point is 00:12:02 it's happened. So either I'm in debt to you or... He's put the air pods in your pocket and you've walked out of the store and someone's come running out and you're receiving a receipt. Is that upsells or is that you've been sold stuff without realizing you've agreed to it? Yeah. Well it's like, in the same way, imagine you go to a doctor and you're like, must I make it? And they do test one, test two, test three, test four.

Starting point is 00:12:23 And then as you leave, you get charged for all those tests, you say, well, I'm not only one test one, but at a no point did the doctor say, I'm going to do this, this is this it's going to be the don't say which is mandatory and which is exactly. It's just like, well, it could be a spectrum of problems. I'll test for all of them, Billy for all of them. Cheers, mate. I mean, I'm an MRI. I mean, yeah, surely you can just do. Like, well, I suppose that's what the American system is.

Starting point is 00:12:42 Like, so you come into the sort of finger and they will do like a CT head and the like, the air they're just fully like. So Jen and ex. And what about that though I think. Really? Well, because then the incentives are aligned. You'd rather the doctor like irradiates you head to toe and like, it's as long as there's a rationale behind it.

Starting point is 00:12:59 PR exam. Like obviously if you're taking the piss, then that's different. I see. But if the incentive is, you can stop them taking the piss, then that's different. I see. But if the incentive is, it's like, You just stop them taking the piss. They're time, I suppose. And also, they've managed instead.

Starting point is 00:13:10 So they're getting paid for the time. They're like, I've got a patient in. I'll just, you know, I think I'm okay. I'd rather they took the piss of that directs than the other. What would they just be like? Like, I'd rather a doctor just gets me out of the room because the 10 minutes are up. I'd rather that didn't happen.

Starting point is 00:13:23 And instead, I'm sent for the full, full of panel are up. I'd rather that didn't happen. And instead, I'm sent there for the full, I've got a full blood panel. Okay, so by dog. See you. Bye. Yeah, so we're going to that other vet. What about you first, like? Just on the back of that as well.

Starting point is 00:13:36 If you don't want to commit to a dog, or if you can't afford the long term cost of a dog, borrowmydoggy.com. Excellent website. Yeah. Thanks to wild 12 pounds a year and you just, you basically select dogs within your, like Tinder for dogs I suppose. So like you look at dogs within your range, within your like your locality range. Choose the gender. Choose the gender. Choose the age. Choose the breed. Choose the type of dog. People have

Starting point is 00:14:02 a little dog profile photos and you just borrow someone's dog if they're going away or if they're... Does anyone uploaded a photo of a dog with the dog filter from Snapchat on it? Because I would choose that dog dog. Definitely. Dog squared. That was a good time. Is that where we got the whip it that had psycho motor retardation? That was a friend. But how borrowed? Other dogs from borrow my doggy and they were much better. It's like a nursery toilet. I do think they're getting a dog when their life is like if you're out at the house, I'll lot.

Starting point is 00:14:33 Yeah, exactly. So this is the reason I've grown up with dogs and I'm sure a lot of people, especially young people that are listening, will think like fuck, I've grew up with dogs, I love dogs to bits. Yeah. And it makes me physically emotionally ride when I see dogs I just want to be around them yeah yeah but because I have so much respect

Starting point is 00:14:52 for them and I know based on my mum and dad's treatment of our dogs what level of activity and care dogs should have and they can have and like I not gonna take this dog. Like a perfect example. Exactly, point of the day, it's disservice to the dog if you're out in the hospital. That's a nice job. Just shit. The dog doesn't have the choice. It can't go and complain to someone.

Starting point is 00:15:13 It can't go good. It's super serious. Yeah, exactly. And like the proofs in the pudding are Rob, our body collie is nearly 16. Yeah. And you're like, that's what happens when you get walked three times a day and you have

Starting point is 00:15:25 a militarized food and weight routine. Yeah, yeah. Like, yeah. Right. Lifehack. So, my lifehack, I've got, my and divided into physical and digital. So, my first physical lifehack is, this was a suggestion actually from a guy called Dan. Dan, this was fantastic.

Starting point is 00:15:42 He gave me three, is if you have a accident in the car or an altercation or a road rage situation, so like someone starts getting out of the car coming towards you. Get your phone out and film them. Instantly diffuses the situation or because what that does is shows a mirror to them, they're knocking at your window,

Starting point is 00:16:04 trying to like aggravate you and they're like hang on. So it must be you're gonna be a meme here. Yeah, they just see themselves and they're like, oh man, what was that? The guy who was the, the like BBC man who was a presenter. Yeah, and he got out the car. Cause it really went. You're going to jail and I'll tell you what, you are too. What was he saying?

Starting point is 00:16:29 I don't know what you mean. It's like a David Adler prototype guy. Oh, you've got to be lost. He's shit on a motorway. I've seen the one where there's a cyclist coming along and the guy's in the car and he's being super, super angry and very, very threatening. Then gets out of the car and the cyclist starts cycling away.

Starting point is 00:16:46 And the guy runs along, tries to kick him. That's poetry, that video. Video Godine will put the slow-mo. You show up at this. I'm a bit of a vice or someone like, I've dissected the video, I'm just running by frame. So there's a bit in it where he's like, he's talking to him and he's like,

Starting point is 00:17:00 are you a tank? No, are you a car? No, you're a cyclist. It's a gas, what was I around? Does he pay road tax? No, and then he's like, are you a tank? No, are you a car? No, you're a cyclist. Get us for what's our own road? Do you pay road tax? No. And then I saw the most beautiful phrase in the English language that I've ever witnessed. It blasts, well past, sell a door, and any of these kind of TSLU things, it is the phrase, put your fucking mouth shut. You're like, because what this man has done is there is a distinct U-turn in the middle of the center, when he realizes that he's gone with the wrong phrase, but then he pauses for a moment and then thinks, I'm just going to commit to it.

Starting point is 00:17:37 It's so beautiful. It's the kick, the slight overextension, is it? It needs just a terrible extension there. And then it's like, try to put it down to our stops, our trouble double, then it's properly daxied in the face and shoulder in the ground. Yeah, it's unbelievable.

Starting point is 00:17:55 Right, okay, so. I'm gonna find it while I'm doing it. So a film, and that's, I suppose, any time there's a fight, just film. Just start filming. And so it's's BBC Road. That's it. Put your hands on the car and prepare to die. I do remember that. He's in the car park somewhere isn't he? Right, you've got a great YouTube

Starting point is 00:18:22 channel. The starting of a great YouTube, or you've defused the fight. Yeah, but no downside. Yeah. That plus dash cam. Million views. Yeah. Especially as a good right. So my first one is using scissors in the kitchen for everything you use a knife for. Oh, yeah. Great. Life I. Yeah, okay. So these straight straight off the bat, like if you are still cutting chicken with a knife, like give up. Yeah, like buy a fairly okay pair of kitchen scissors. You need to be quite sharp and you'll just you never need to use truckers. Chicken is out. Chicken is on your hands, both hands usually, you're holding it, you might chop your finger, then you've got like salmonella in your wound. And... Nothing worse.

Starting point is 00:19:06 Yeah, salmonella wound. Whereas you can have single hand over the pot chopping away, chopping your chicken into little dicey strips or whatever it is. The same goes for vegetables, the same goes for pizza. Like pizza with a pair of scissors. Like just fucking... People are trying to, you know, like when the astronauts went to space and they were like,

Starting point is 00:19:27 there's no gravity in space. We need to come up with a pen that'll write upside down. It's like to pencil, like, yes, mate. Fucking go about to... The Americans invested in money in the, like, the space pen and the Russian she sees the pencil. Just see X-ray vision through all the way. You see it at the buy of the space pen, it's like you're using underwater upside down. It was like, oh, you're supposed to. It's amazing that that's sold so well. I guess people just want it to be.

Starting point is 00:19:51 It's a novelty isn't it? Yeah, yeah. I remember like JML or QVC or someone being like, it can ride on walls and it rides upside down. Yeah, fuck off me, I'll just have a pencil please. I'm on a HB3, thanks. Do you remember the boy's stuff, the website?, I'll just sell a pencil, please. I'll have a HB3. Thanks. Do you remember the boys stuff, the website?

Starting point is 00:20:08 I used to be in a lot of... There's that like firebox. I think you used to sell like BB guns and... Yeah, like firebox. Yeah, they were all over that kind of thing. But yeah, scissors, I mean, is there anything that you guys use scissors for that's like? Yeah, like, you're right, kitchen stuff,

Starting point is 00:20:22 because that chicken, how long does it take to try and cut chicken up You can just go and then you can get more accuracy less injury risk Less man sing it you do the other thing as well is and I always think this about when I go to the bathroom And it's an odd habit of mine But I when I go to the bathroom I only use left hand like if it's a number one I'm like I'm just left hand like I've grown up doing things with my right hand, holding stuff in clubs, holding a club bottle

Starting point is 00:20:49 and a phone, do whatever. Does that mean that I only need to wash one hand? Because I don't, but I feel like I wasted it, however, when I'm in the kitchen and I'm cutting chicken, I've only touched chicken with one hand, but I still wash both. You're very Arab. Like I do.

Starting point is 00:21:04 It's a Arab cultural thing to only do unsanitary things with a left hand. So are you shake hands with the right one? Yeah. So like in Arab culture, if you do something, if you like touch someone with your left hand, I don't know, if you like, it's just in general.

Starting point is 00:21:18 It's not, yeah. Isn't it something like the germs you actually get from touching your penis, having a wee, and a smaller than like where you get from a bone and that's on a bar, or you should go to that. Oh, the bone on us on the bar isn't absolutely like ecosystem of... Even so the irony of like you go into a toilet, go to the toilet, wash your hands and then open the door. Yeah, there's an argument that you should be protecting your penis from your hands

Starting point is 00:21:54 Yeah, like there's more stuff that can go wrong Think in star months. Yeah I'm thinking, stay on my hands. Yeah. Yeah. But. This is a serious matter. Yeah. Because I've heard the things of this,

Starting point is 00:22:10 so I thought I knew I'd think it's something to say. Because it does seem to me, sometimes I'm standing in a public toilet and I will see someone have a piss and then leave without washing hands. You think like, don't be such a fucking nine-year-old. At least do what? You're like, don't be such a fucking nine-year-old. At least do one.

Starting point is 00:22:25 I've done your own busy, is your life, that you don't have time to wash your hands. Do you know what? I will make this argument. It is painful if you mid-jim set and you chalky. And you've got optimal level of chalk on your hands, but you need to wait and you're like, oh, God, to get back to this degree of dryness and chalkiness is like a, it's a form and a job.

Starting point is 00:22:47 Well, washing your hands can mean missing the next set. Like, well, that's all grip gone. Doesn't matter what bother you. I'm actually going to do a doubly because this one's pretty much the same. Okay. Using a plastic bottle to get the york out of eggs. It's crazy. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:23:03 Okay. It's a very YouTube's greasy number four. It's a very YouTube-like stuff. It's stuck it up. Yeah. If you try it, so I found weirdly that the best thing for dealing with egg is egg shell. So you know, if you crack an egg into a pan

Starting point is 00:23:17 and there's a bit of shell, the best thing to get that out is egg shell. Okay. For a And also crack the egg and I just do tip it between the two. Yeah, tip it between the two. So I mean, if it's obviously that is you're going pop and then it's to stay in the bottle. Unbelievable, man. You wouldn't need multiple. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:23:38 Oh, yeah. It's a so you can imagine you've cracked the egg. Obviously the one time this doesn't work. If you're frying any it into a pan, because once it starts cooking you're fucked. Yeah, but so you need to crack it into wherever it is that you're putting it, squeeze the bottle, just allow the tip to touch the top of it, just like release it, no. Yeah, sucks back up. And then what happens with egg number two? Just keep on, it just doesn't have a leg on the second leg. When you squeeze, does it not

Starting point is 00:24:08 squeeze some of your quone onto your stomach? So you're getting, got it. So there you go. Sizzards and... I'd like to about the study something. What do you get nice? Gusto or HelloFresh? Okay. I said, do you have pasta man carrying a Gusto box on the way here? Are they both the same? They're like blue apron in America. Pretty, pretty similar. I would say Gusto is better based on how we try both.

Starting point is 00:24:42 I just spelled that. G-O-U-S-T-O. Cool. So my diet, probably the same for both of you, extremely bland. I know you both do in the slow cooker shit, aren't you, so it's maybe a bit better than mine. Extremely bland, eat the same things every day when back when I eat together,

Starting point is 00:24:59 it's the same shit every time. So this, and we both have like the, I'd quite like to learn a cook, I'd quite like to do it more cooking, but, and even buy a recipe book, but like the, the barrier, like, you're like, one clove of garlic, one bit of ginger, like, fuck off, like, he just has like, ginger in the house, and maybe you do, I don't know. He has like exactly the right amount of, so I've curried out over, I've got a big bag of blocks of frozen ginger and frozen garlic that I just chuckled in the slow cooker, which is lovely, that's a very...

Starting point is 00:25:32 Okay. Because the Tesco do like a sachet of crushed garlic, but it's really expensive. It's tiny, it's very expensive, and if you go to the Indian section, even in a macamarrisons or Indian supermarket, you get a kilogram bag of garlic blocks or ginger blocks. It's such good. So I'm actually amazed at how many recipes have ginger in them. There are so many more than you'd expect. It's a great flavour. And even just like sauces that you just take for granted, what actually goes into making like fucking hell. So like

Starting point is 00:26:01 50 minutes of just chopping and dice and just to make a source. But anyway, so you get a selection of things you can pick from at the start of the week. You pick the recipes that you like the most. They deliver exactly the right ingredients for that, with the recipe cards to... So does the machine learn? Like what? That's cool. That's okay. So like this is for me. Look how that's the thing we're putting in. That's cool. That's okay. So like, this is for me. Love how that's the thing we're putting it in. This for me is for you. I made a chicken quorum from scratch.

Starting point is 00:26:29 I've had different types of curry that I've never had before, because you can just remove the nuts from the preparation. That's what I'm saying. That's a way for you. This is a convoluted way for you to ensure that there's no nuts in your food. Well, it is. It is. And also.

Starting point is 00:26:43 So I always feel bad for you that you can't have Indian food because of the big nuts. Because of that. We can't go to Chaup Raya, which is a crying shame because you'd love it. I'm sure I would. Kill both of us. Yes. Because you've had a time when it was life.

Starting point is 00:26:54 I'd be great. You'd have had oysters and be dead and you'd have had nuts and be dead. But so, so anyone who, it works best for like two or three or four people, but if you don't have a heart. Well, you could still do it. I think with the portion sizes, Chris, you actually, like we've seen this put away a part of yogurt in a soren in about 20 or 20 seconds. You did the soren in the yogurt and the yogurt is not like it's not a petty flu.

Starting point is 00:27:16 It's a shared yogurt, like a kilo term of yogurt. Cubs are good. Like the meals are on average 600 to 800 calories. Cook per serving, per serving. Yeah. we'll be two servings. So you can just laugh in the face of the other categories. Really good. The stuff that I've eaten over the past three weeks for dinner, I would never. What would you, can you pick if someone's going to go, because I'm going to guess there'll be a referral code, but you do.

Starting point is 00:27:42 I do, yeah. Fantastic referral code will be below. I'm gonna guess you'll get one free meal. What are your bills? This is my turn. If someone's potentially gonna go and get a gals though or whatever it is, Gustav Gusto, what meals would you recommend? So the difficulty is they change every week. Bastards.

Starting point is 00:27:59 So to be honest, it's great. There's always variations on the theme. So the Indian week, the taco. Well, no, so there's always like a B theme. So the... Indian Week. The Taco. Well no, so there's always like a Bavaria or a Taco one. There's always a bigger, there's always a Maker and Peter. There's always Curry variations. There's like Nusarca's... There's some Arab.

Starting point is 00:28:17 I think the one we've just selected is like a... What's the name of that? Peanut puree. Peanut puree. Peanut puree. Peanut, just chicken salad. Peanut chicken with relish. With a peanut sauce.

Starting point is 00:28:34 How much is it? Chicken macaroni and a one-pot Mexican beef rice and beans. And the two that I picked. Okay, well I mean the chance of you ever eating that or cooking that. Well precisely, precisely. So, and the nice thing about it is that the cards that give you the recipe cards are whole punched, so we're just gonna keep the recipe cards

Starting point is 00:28:54 and then over time you can accumulate, like what Yusuf has, you think like, oh, I need this much garlic and ginger for all these recipes so I don't accumulate it. And they've all got the macros and it's all in my fitness pile. Pace piss. Really good.

Starting point is 00:29:07 That's awesome. And that's gg.oust. G-O-U-S-T-O. Can you find your referral company? I'll send it to you. Cheers. You said furo. So I've got another physical one.

Starting point is 00:29:19 Oh, a tuna roll. Yeah. Or a deer roll. You guys are both in physical one, you know? Oh, it's digital. So digital. Digital. Keep dental floss in the shower, where you have all the stuff to hang the shower gels.

Starting point is 00:29:34 Okay. Because flossing is one of those things that you just never get around to doing. Whereas you're not doing anything in the shower. You're just standing there, getting wet and warm. So pull out dental dental floss and also it means when you spit out all the blood and stuff it just goes off into shower drains away. So we spoke to Dean St. Mark recently that said that the largest source of systemic inflammation in the body is from your gums and because most people are terrible at flossing there's a huge low hanging

Starting point is 00:30:03 fruit with flossing. And that brings down your CRP, which is the inflammatory mark produced by it. You live there and that bringing that down correlates with better body composition, better mood, lower stress, all those things. So, fuck me. So they just happened with me saying to him, because he was like depression has got. Did I just talk over you, though? No. No, no. So I just had this thought. I was like depression has got. Did I just talk over you though? No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Yeah, and I said like if you have that what can you do and you said where do you manage your information? I was like fine. How do you manage your information? You say weird. So well, flossing.

Starting point is 00:30:54 Flossing teeth. Fucking hell. So you're telling me mate that if I just floss my teeth, I'm less depression. I'm less depression. I'm less like you get depression. You say, okay? I hope you're not watching. Terrible business. But yeah, it's a philosophy. I'll use the skirmaffer. So do you use mouthwash? Occasionally. So for me, I've managed to get myself into the rhythm, the degree of cleanness that I'm

Starting point is 00:31:24 happy with for my teeth now is mouthwash clean. So that's, you know how I don't get how some people are able to leave the house without cleaning their teeth. For me, it's the same as walking out the house without your shoes on. I'm not ready to go. There is part of me that isn't done. I'll be walking out with no pants on us. For me now, the bar for cleanliness for mouth has been raised up to green blue, Listerine, which is the hat one.

Starting point is 00:31:56 They're fucking... Do you remember the original flavor Listerine? That's it. Is that it? The hard core. For change of color. It used to be yellow. It's just like original flavor. It had no slender. It's a hardcore one. It's a hardcore one. It's a hardcore one.

Starting point is 00:32:06 It's a hardcore one. It's a hardcore one. It's a hardcore one. It's a hardcore one. It's a hardcore one. It's a hardcore one. It used to be yellow. It's just like originally.

Starting point is 00:32:14 It had no slender. It's just like bleach flavoured. Oh, right. No, no. This might be a bit more old-school. I don't think we have it. No, no, no. You need that one, man.

Starting point is 00:32:22 You want your hat? For your hat. You want your hat. For your hat. Yeah. But yeah, so. They've pacified it recently, might honestly. the one in the 1990s, back in when Old Spice was like a scoop that you had to... Larer, I don't know, just use real cream. Someone requested that on a photo shoot the other day. Anyvice? What, real cream? Real cream? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you style your hair with?

Starting point is 00:32:35 And I saw on the call sheet one of the male models and requested real cream. You're a fucking one. It was invited David Beckham with us. Yeah, fuck's up. 2019, yeah. So with the dental floss thing, I... You always knew that I should floss at the back of my mind. Admittedly, Dean St. Mark has, like, fully convinced me to do that now.

Starting point is 00:32:53 But even knowing that, no one needs convincing of the benefits, but it's like it's not something you really get around to doing it. And I had it in my drawer, our site, never really got around to it, whereas now in the shower, it's like, great. Have you got a minute side of the tuck? Because you can get like mint dental floss. and I had it in my drawer, out of sight, never really got around to it, whereas now in the shower, it's like, great, right? You've got a big side of the tic, because you can get like mint dental flots. Or it'll be satin one, just because if you get a cheap one,

Starting point is 00:33:13 it ends up like catching and fraying, and then you get little bits stuck in it. So it better to just pay like, you're doing it like 20 meters or something in this. It's like getting more 40, 50 meters, yeah. So you may as well pay three pounds, like an extra 40p or something for the nice one. And that last one, probably half a year or something like that.

Starting point is 00:33:30 Yeah, and if you get a minty one, like obviously there will be a residual taste of the plaque that you're clearing out from in between the teeth. And if you use an unflavored one, then there's still going to be that sense. So should you, should you floss before you clean me teeth because I tend to clean my teeth and get in the shower? Mm-hmm. So I don't know, and I'm going to presume that you must have to floss first, then clean them out of washing all the... I've got a few dentist friends that are very specific about the order of this stuff because they're like, are you induces bacteria in here when you floss? So they have to be the frequency of this and then you've got to leave the floor right to soak into the teeth for this much time and don't have sugar within this much time. David Bretton if you're this. So final tip for flossing, rather than like trying to

Starting point is 00:34:12 fiddle around with each tooth. Take a strip this long. Wrap it around about a foot and a half. Probably wrap it around both index fingers. Like you're a Turkish man about to thread someone's eyebrows. Yeah, like a Turkish man or a hit man about to grow up someone. And then start at the very back, both teeth up at the top and just work through so you double in your efficiency with flossing and do the back. Is it in and out once? A little side to side, get it in.

Starting point is 00:34:43 This they don't saw just slide through slide through the through the goomsome. Yeah. So is it just once in and out or a couple of times? So I just go once in and then work all the way forward and then bottom teeth all the way back. But you must have to go, you can't. Yeah, you can't get the middle one. Oh, so the middle one, yeah, you can get flops right in the back of my teeth. I might.

Starting point is 00:35:02 See how far you can get you. No, you can't. See how far you get you. Come on. You do, you do George's, I... Ah! You should get the kit like you fit all your hand in your mouth. Three, I think three fingers you should be able to get.

Starting point is 00:35:16 I think you can. I think you can. Ah. Ah. No, not those, no, just not. What? Oh, like that. Yeah, you should get those three. Ah, ah. Ah. Ah! Ah, no, of course, just that. What? Oh, like that. Yeah, she gets those three.

Starting point is 00:35:25 Uh-huh. Oh. Ah. Ah. Ah, that hurt. Have you ever had cramp occur in your jaw when you try and eat really big burgers? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you're like, oh.

Starting point is 00:35:37 Yeah. Right, okay. My turn. My turn, my turn. I'm going to stay in a mass lesson at school. I have my last stuff over and I was like, ah! Oh, I'm going to wear my top lesson at school. I'm a maths stucker, but I was like, I'm like, you're wearing a gum, you're just stopping your teeth. You're like, ah!

Starting point is 00:35:49 And yeah, like a lump pops out, right? I know exactly what you mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, something occurs in there. Yeah, it's so weird. I would have had that before. If you've had your problems, get at me on social media and tell me about your job problems that make us feel better.

Starting point is 00:36:00 I'm gonna stay in the kitchen for mine. Staying in the kitchen. Okay. Today, do you know the correct way to cut a cake? I'm going to stay in the kitchen for mine, staying in the kitchen today. Do you know the correct way to cut a cake? I'm probably doing it all wrong. About this is one of those things like tying your shoelaces where you realise all your life you've been when you say the correct way or the most effective way to keep freshness.

Starting point is 00:36:19 No. So you've got a cake of any shape, oh, a cake of most shapes. I'm gonna guess there'll be some I don't know if it's an octagonal shape that I have has a three tetrahedrons inside of it that actually get more effective to go from the northern quarter. So what you want to do most people when they get a cake they'll cut a little wedge out right so you go from the middle down like classic birthday cake, right? So you go from the middle down, like classic birthday cake, right, mother of birthday party, wedge down, wedge out again,

Starting point is 00:36:49 and then from the line that's been made, you'll continue to cut one wedge all the way around until the cake's gone. But you have no way of protecting the sponginess, the lovely soft sponginess inside from the air outside, which is when you then need to cling film over the top. However, if you have a cake, circular or square or whatever it might be like that, and you cut a complete line from one side right the way to the other, and then you just slide

Starting point is 00:37:17 the rest of the cake together, the icing around the outside will continue to protect it, and it will still, all of the lovely soft sponginess will be hematically sealed inside by the icing. So there's a problem that I see with that which is as you approach the end of the cake you end up with the final two slices being almost exclusively icing. Fun. So how long? So as you can look forward to that. How long? Hold on. There's a circle cake. Yes, right. Are you cutting a line or are you cutting a piece? So you're bi-sexual, you're bi-sexual, the whole cake across the diameter, and you move bits in. So you're going to make two parallel lines, the width that you want, and then go... You end up with a really weird slice of cake, to see.

Starting point is 00:37:59 Ah, so you're not... You're going to end up with a perfectly straight slice of cake. You're going to end up with it with... So you know, to end up with a birthday party where there's like 40 kids there. And you end up with a like co-coz or laser quesadon. And you end up with a slice of cake. You know, you're the fuck son of this. Well, it's slice instead of a wedge. Yeah. But it's something with a proper cake technique, isn't it?

Starting point is 00:38:18 Oh, actually, we were exposed to professionals from very young age. Because occasionally you'd get a slice of cake that was really icingy. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about. And then you have identified that as you get more towards the crust at the very very end, it's slither of cake in a big bill. But I mean who doesn't want that? Actually, you learned you to marzipan. No, almonds. Armonds, okay. Almond's more, that's a fine. So I only know that. It's a funny story. I only know that because Is it I was sat in uni so me Don

Starting point is 00:38:51 Audio broadcast Gibson Digit right we were sat playing called to you on three separate TVs It on the same Wi-Fi just preventing anybody from being able to access the the VLE or anything they needed to do and I said, you know what, fuck this, I'm sick of this, drove to the court, picked up hazelnuts, walnuts, almonds, gave Dom the epic pen and said, I'm going to work through these while playing cod if I have a reaction. I'm negligent. God, did almonds, did walnuts, you ate them all? Both fine, I ate one, then a couple more.

Starting point is 00:39:25 Okay. Same walnuts, thought three times in a row seemed a bit much. I'm not bothered with the hazelnuts. Does that thing rush and relish? Yeah. What happened to you in the hazelnuts? Sorry, I don't know, but I think I've never had the hazelnuts.

Starting point is 00:39:38 I think I probably have by accident. Yeah. It's a bit of a fitnessy thing, right? Very fitnessy. Right. Johnny, your eye am so fitness. Johnny, come on. I have one on there. Dick Maudum.

Starting point is 00:39:50 I'm creating the show notes as we get here. I've life hacked. Life hacks. Amazing. Three things per day. One thing per week. Give away. No, do complete. And three things per day, many things. Yeah, so, book called Essentialism, book called The One Thing, basically all attack the same thing, which is that lack of focus procrastination being ineffective, etc. come from just trying to do too many things and

Starting point is 00:40:20 being diffusely focused. So each week pick a thing, like a project that you're going to move forward, a complete. And then at the start of each day, look at you to do, listen, pick three things and do those three things every single day. And it sounds insanely simple, really difficult. Give me an example of three things. So that'll be like work related for me.

Starting point is 00:40:42 So it might be sent to marketing emails, finish off a certain piece of automation or software, write a piece of content. So it's not stuff that would be, it's not stuff that like you are doing all the time recurring, it's not low level task, it's stuff that if you didn't make time to do it, it probably wouldn't get done. Do you think this works particularly well in a job where you have consistent categories of tasks that come up? For instance, if you are someone that works in customer service or something like me, which is very responsive, if the majority of your job is conflict management or problem solving.

Starting point is 00:41:28 So maybe not in that instance, yeah. I'm just trying to think about that. So it's for stuff, something that you said's big on, is the Eisenhower matrix. So anything that's in agent, not agent, but important. So stuff that we procrastinate on. If you make time for things like that, then it helps. But if all of your job is just in the urgent and important category and everything has to be done now, then yeah. But like, certainly, I think most people in knowledge work, so you are producing something physical, procrastinate, and you can't just make a hundred percent. And even students, like, pick three lectures you want to do today,

Starting point is 00:42:08 or pick a lecture you want to do this week, and then slides, you want to, you know, like it's just, it's just chunking things down. And also, like there are apps you can use to track this, or like to do it, you can set a task goal for the day. So when you've done three or three things, it goes on congratulations. But doing, if you do the work during the work week, you can do 15 things a week,

Starting point is 00:42:31 15 many things, and one big thing, that's a shit tongue. And most people can't look back over the past week and say, these are the 15, like relatively important things I did. So it's just having some direction and purpose with what you do. That's good. So it's just having having some direction and purpose with what you do, B. That's good. So to take off on that and to explain further on the on the ison harm matrix, it is you have a quadrant, four quadrants of urgent and important. So you have urgency and you have importance. Urgence and important, urgent and not important, important but not urgent and not urgent and not important. So those are the four quadrants. With important and urgent, you do them right away. With important but not urgent, you'd schedule

Starting point is 00:43:17 them to do them at some point in the future. With not important and urgent urgent you delegate and with not important not urgent, you just sack them off. So could you give a type of example of a task that might fall into each one? Yeah, so. So urgent and important. So for who's the avatar here? Desk worker, desktro. Okay, so or you just you?

Starting point is 00:43:43 So wherever. Okay, well for a desk worker you've got. Okay, so, or you just you, so, whatever. Okay, so, for a desk worker, you've got like urgent and important, you have a project that is due tomorrow, and it's a presentation that has to be done, you need to do it because it requires you all knowledge or expertise, and it can't wait until next week, so you just, you prioritize that, you do that immediately. Urgent and not important might be some tasks that maybe the intern could do if you just

Starting point is 00:44:08 like spend 10 minutes with them, explain what they need to do, work through some, it's like some kind of monotonous task that has to be done, but it's not really top of your priorities. So you just, you schedule in a time to speak to them and then you dedicate that for the important but not urgent stuff. That might be stuff that actually progresses your career long term. That's the danger zone, isn't it? Danger zone, building skills and it's stuff that it's so easy to just put it off because you think, well, there's no real consequence if I don't do this.

Starting point is 00:44:38 It's not in the short term, but long term, if you neglect the stuff that is important and not urgent, then your whole life starts to just trundle along and be crap. So that's the stuff you need to schedule in and dedicate time on a weekend or whatever to do, which might be like reading, improving yourself, training or that like trainings are very good example actually because it's a CPD of some time. Yeah, CPD like because there's no, there's no consequence of not doing it. There's no immediate gain from doing it, but it builds up and creates things. Clearly, a lot of people in, at least that I speak to in desk

Starting point is 00:45:15 jobs, the stuff that would fit with our categories, exactly. That's sort of thing. Like, I want to learn to code or I want to take watercolour classes or you know, like shit that, if you don't think right, I'm going to do this tonight or this weekend Do you know I've done that's been good for that course era? Have you heard of that? Okay, yeah It's like you do me

Starting point is 00:45:32 Similar to you do me your great courses plus but it's like so I went and I did a big analysis of all of this at the start of the year I wanted to formalise my learning so that I was accountable to an external timeline. And they have like week by week modules that you're moving through. And if you start fall behind, they give you emails and stuff like that. Okay. Coursera seemed to be, as far as I could see, one of the most sophisticated. Like, Yudami's got some good stuff on great cost, which plus just seems to be like for people from YouTube to share a referral links to. Doesn't really look like there's that much good stuff on there but because... Masterclass as well. I'm gonna guess there's loads.

Starting point is 00:46:12 I think this is because I nearly bought it when I was going through the cookery only on a cookboard and Ramsey has a Masterclass thing. It's a really... A 400 quid or something or... I'm guessing Coursera is like vetted and it's been... It's issued, it's issued by actual unies, but they have the most popular MOOC massive open online course right in the world. The best and it's free.

Starting point is 00:46:36 Wow. So it's interesting. The accountability is very important there. I think like something that George said to me the other day was that he wanted to set up some dropshipping project and he was like, I'm not going, I don't want to speak to you about the specifics yet, because I've not taken action. And I know that I'm the kind of person that gets the same hit from talking about doing something that I do from actually doing it. And so that's, that's like just kind of talking about doing a thing. But if you have

Starting point is 00:47:01 a course where it's like, you need to check need to check in with a coach or you need to take something off, then it gets rid of that and it's like, you have to actually do the thing. So what's not important to not urgent? That's just stuff that, maybe it may masquerade as important not urgent, so the development stuff, but you look at anything, actually, this

Starting point is 00:47:25 isn't going to add much value to my life, but it's just hanging over my head. The Warren Buffett thing where he said to his pilot, what are the 25 things that you want to achieve in your career? And he was like, oh, it's all this stuff. And he's like, right, take number five to 25 and put all that stuff on you do not ever do under any circumstances. Because he was like, all that's going to do is crowd your thinking and the essentialism, I'm sure he was like, exactly essentialism where it's like, you just need to have a single focus. So I'm terrible with that. I've got too many things on and I'm always trying to do too much stuff. And so the Eisenhower Matrix has been a huge improvement for me. And so the Lifehack is an app called Focus Matrix,

Starting point is 00:48:03 which is it's free. There's lots of paid ones as well, but I think all you need is a free one. It's literally just like a to-do list and four quadrants color coded. And you can add little sub notes into the to-do list. And it's just completely helpful. Is that the same? Some guys just be focus pro. It is. So it's syncs with that.

Starting point is 00:48:19 Yeah, so you can buy it. So be focus pros, a Pomodoro timer. And so you can buy the suite. And they're all like two quid each or something. So you can definitely buy all the luck. And then they just sync with each other. So you can take a task, say, right, start Pomodoro as on this, and then it works through.

Starting point is 00:48:33 And it tracks the Pomodoro as in segment as well. Lovely. Very clever. Yeah, that's like. Whoa! They've loved my one. Good. Uh, we're right.

Starting point is 00:48:43 Okay, so I don't think that we've actually properly done pardoros and how big of a change it's been for me. Have we not? No, not properly. I was going to do an entire one on like productivity and stuff like that. I'm realizing we're making so many references to things like saying pardoros. You haven't heard of pardoros but I'm not that.

Starting point is 00:49:03 Yeah, tomato. So, tomato. Italian. Italian tomato. Tomato. Was it a normal? So, Pomodoro's. Pomodoro's, Pomodoro's, for me, have been probably the single biggest shift in work

Starting point is 00:49:22 and how I schedule my time when I'm at work doing some form of work that I've ever had. Like that's the same as I just, so I was thinking about this yesterday, I don't know why I can't understand how other people construct their working day without doing it. This is how big of a frame shift using the... I'm gonna guess that it's similar for you guys now as well. Like if you weren't doing it. It's such a great metric. It's like, when you do something and you're like, how do people live without this?

Starting point is 00:49:52 That's automatic cars. I was literally, yeah. It's like, what the fuck are you doing? What like, you put your foot to the floor and you move your hand to choose the gear. What like, like a fucking meanderthron. Like, I used to think I'm a gonna go turn your own butter as well. So Paul not small the extension of that was like,

Starting point is 00:50:11 because people say, I don't know, I like change my gears. So, well where does that stop? Well, I'm gonna get out and push the car, or I'm gonna get out and start the car manually myself. Why the windscreen like this? I'm gonna make my own fuel from crushed the raw material.

Starting point is 00:50:24 But I- Because it's not manly, is. But I'm really involved in the driving experience. I think about your woman, your little girl, if you drive a better I can change gear faster than you can. Look at the car just does it. Yeah. There's a guy on a speed awareness course where someone that I was on the speed awareness course, someone was like the instruction was talking about what gear to choose, going down a hill and going up a hill. He's like, I drive a manual car. I drive a automatic car.

Starting point is 00:50:52 He's like, well, yes, that would do it for you. So what's the point of this fucking segment? Like at least half the people in this room will have. They should do. Or they should have got a life hacks 101. And so, Pavdoro, um, essentially you do a 25 minute period of focused work, you take a five minute break, and then you go back to doing your work. It's pretty simple, and it is you create a list of all the things that you have to

Starting point is 00:51:22 do. You then order them in order of importance, and then there's one task that you're working on at one time. So it avoids the multitasking issue that a lot of us come up against, which is what derails you. Oh, I'll do a little bit of this, and I'll do a little bit of that, and it's like, no, no, no, no, no.

Starting point is 00:51:38 You begin down your list of priority, you start at the top and you begin to move down. One thing that I've liked, particularly like to do is to use the Zagana effect open loop closed loop in collaboration with the Pomodoro technique, which is that when my alarm goes off to say that it's the end of 25 minutes, even if I'm partly through a word, It'll be hands off keyboard. And yeah, yeah, fine. I will sell them. One of the advantages of that is that when I come back to begin my work, you can always finish the word. You've got that open loop. So it's always small back into the work. Whereas if you allow yourself to complete it, it feels like more of a bookend. So Parkinson's law work expands to

Starting point is 00:52:23 fill the time given for it. Time boxing also makes you accountable externally to the clock. If you use B Focus Pro, which will be linked in the show notes below, if you use that, there's a little timer on MacBook, which counts down from 25, which also makes you accountable. And it's just a little bit like the analogy to draw to meditation is when you return to the breath or when you realize that you've been lost in thought. Like you'll do something and it's a little red clock. It's not that distracting But it's distracting enough for if you're not doing the task that you're supposed to be doing for you think

Starting point is 00:52:51 Yeah, fuck like I've got 16 minutes left and you do like those little periods you can tie this in with Professor human Lawson from episode 17 his 2020 2020 rules, every 20 minutes for 20 seconds, look at something that's 20 feet away, which helps to reset the ocular muscles so that you don't get too much eye strength. It's also good for if you have stretching that you need to do throughout the day,

Starting point is 00:53:19 like a little bit of exercises, it ensures, like if you're getting a good enough routine with it, you can have, oh well, I'm gonna have my water consumption externally accountable to my palmadoro's, my stretching is accountable to my palmadoro's. If you charge your airpods, when you're doing your palmadoro's, you'll never run out of air pod charge. Like, there's so many different things that you can do. And be focused, the, yeah, be focused pro has the time of 15 on, 25 on, then 5 off. And then for me, I've got every four, a 15 minute break during my Pomodoro break time, which means that you can go, that for me is also externally accountable.

Starting point is 00:53:57 Every 15 minute one for me is a walk that I know takes 10 minutes plus I've got two minutes to put my shoes on and take them off. Come back in and have a glass of water. And the shift is, it's nothing short of global like in terms of my... I think the reason that, you know what you're saying, I how do people manage it, otherwise. I honestly think that, so I worked in a coffee shop with a friend who works

Starting point is 00:54:19 in, he works as an accountant in a business. And I said to him, I used to work at KPMG with him. We used to provide. But he said he works in the coffee shop. You mean you would work on a coffee shop? We would both. In the coffee shop. Yeah, sorry.

Starting point is 00:54:32 I'm making a spresser. Doing Pomodoro's. Charlie, you do me. I don't know. I want to pomodoro. Five minute break. So we used to do, we used to revise together for a presson. Because I'm used to revise in Pomodoro's. And so when he was working with me, we were doing Pomodoro's together,

Starting point is 00:54:49 and after two Pomodoro's, he said to me, that is the most uninterrupted work I've done for as long as I can remember. Because he's constantly getting people asking him stuff or questions. And I think the way the average person gets her a work there is they're in an office and it's very, very disrupted environment and there's very little intense work. And I find that so weird to think back to that's how I used to work. There's a, like for me like eight Pomodoro's of work or 12 Pomodoro's of work in a day,

Starting point is 00:55:17 it's a lot of work. But to do less than that, most people do like two or three and like, well, how do you get by with that? But that's how. It's just, you can't have that. It's hard to have that structure. It is bizarre to think that most office structures, especially when you've got,

Starting point is 00:55:31 that we've got a couple of friends who work in kind of like new wave Gen Y offices that are all open plan with like cool sound systems and this that new that's written on the walls. Yeah, and all that I think is, all that I think is put me in the quietest, smallest cubicle to me to a cabin. Yeah, no Wi-Fi.

Starting point is 00:55:52 Yeah, and put me in there. And then for the five minutes, during my thing, give me a yoga mat and give me some of the people, hey man, how's it going? Oh, here's a dog. He is like loads of stimulus, like great. And then I'm like, they're all waiting at the edge of the road. Just great. And then vacuum.

Starting point is 00:56:10 So I think the way the officers should be managed is in the Pomodoro at the rhythm. So the fire breaks and then a 15 fire breaks and lunch. We need to talk about this for the Carl Newport deep work review. Yes. Because he slates open plan offices for just like the fact that yeah, there's been open plan. There's a movement towards instant messaging and everything that's just completely degrading the sense of what's insulting as well is when there's a culture that those people work late. Yeah, like there is zero respect for anybody's time in this set up like so true.

Starting point is 00:56:38 You take you you there was need to work delays work. It wasn't for so everyone should just at the start of the day set out like these are the tasks I'm going to work. Do they use work? If it wasn't for, so everyone should just, at the start of the day, set out like, these are the tasks that we're gonna do. Once I've done them, once I've done them, I'll go home. And then you should be, leave me alone, or you should be punished if you are either under providing tasks or not completely tasks you've set and rewarded if you're more productive than other people.

Starting point is 00:56:59 Because otherwise, what is anybody doing? Well, it's this, they're just like staring it. What's it? One of the main problems with this is that you need to be able, and this is why you have pay bands, right? And unfortunately, there's a, there's like, I don't know what the particular mind, uh, experiment would be, but it'll be similar to kind of like the prison, this dilemma where you've got, there'll be some people that'll do less and get dragged along and there's some people that'll do more and they will drag the others. But both of those people are on the same pay band. Essentially,

Starting point is 00:57:32 everyone should be on it. As far as I'm concerned, everyone that's a knowledge work, it should be on performance-based pay. You're like, right, okay, if you can get your work done in this time, and if someone saves, I work better from home. Allow them to work from home? Yeah. Well, this is part of, for our work, we can idea of you convince your boss that if you can take a couple of days to work from home and then you outperform your other days when you're working from home, you can then say, well, look at my numbers,

Starting point is 00:57:56 I've been performing better on Thursday when I was off and then working from home. So, can I, and you were saying that the incentives are so misaligned at KPMG because you finished the tasks for the day and then you're just giving more stuff. You were a reward for completing the work. So the 9 to 5 model is like, if you've done your work by 3, you'll just be given more work.

Starting point is 00:58:17 So that's work that may have been allocated to someone else who's had a really unproductive day. So you're just punished for being productive. But the biggest criticism I hear for this stuff is, yeah, but my job involves management or there's meetings and I need to communicate with people, but all that stuff would still be more outcome focused than it is. So I'm perfect avatar for that. Like a lot of my stuff's response, I mean, yeah, requiring, we are literally just managing people, aren't you? Yeah, constantly. Yeah, all the time. But even with that, like I'll sit down with the

Starting point is 00:58:49 lads and the boys have got the boys are doing pomeodoro's now. So they're doing their uni recruitment and the revision and all that sort of stuff in in pomeodoro's, which is awesome. Definitely one thing and I'm going to guess that you guys will stick to it, but I still stick to David Allen's two-minute rule, even when doing Pomodoro's. So if a task takes a long, I've extended mine to like three minutes. If a task is going to take less than three minutes to complete, complete there and there. And even if I'm in a Pomodoro, I'll do it. Like, because I'm like, oh, God. Like, if I try and slot this in, like, where the fuck does it go? So a nice way to take that.

Starting point is 00:59:25 And so if you're, the rule, if you follow like Francesco, Cicerello's like the original Pomegranate. Is it you protect the Pomegranate? That is the most important thing, like you do not interrupt a Pomegranate, is it you do something else? So you know those things down. Something I find really nice way to start the day,

Starting point is 00:59:43 is you have a list of like really easy Two-minute tasks and the things you get to do is like do do do do do do do do do and then like by Half-aid do put them in a pomodoro. Yeah, and let's see if they work their region Well, you have to just be an adult I suppose and just make it make assessments But like take a break do the tasks before your next Pomodoro begins and then so you've to lay the next Pomodoro starting. But the risk is you get sucked in. You start a two minute task quite often on start task and I think we'll take two minutes

Starting point is 01:00:12 and then two hours later you're like, oh... So I have one that's related to this so I'll do mine. So, all within the Pomodoro. So I feel like I've been, I must have been doing it for like, at least five years in different, different areas like revision and other stuff. So the, I think the, the best skill I think it allows you to create is, you look at it to do this. So like, what I do is I look at my tedious and look at my day and think, I'm going to do these 10 things today. And it gets like half three, and I've done two these 10 things today. And it gets like half three,

Starting point is 01:00:46 and I've done two of the 10 things, and I'm like, oh, fuck, such a twat, like I'm in such an productive day. And I'll maybe do four, and just really be really annoyed at myself. But like, the reality is, between when you start working, when you finish work, there's a certain amount of focus time you can spend.

Starting point is 01:01:03 And like, there are hours, but you need to take breaks to maintain that focus. So yeah, you look at that to do this, and you say, right, today I'm gonna do, I have time to do 10 Pomodoro's. So this task, how many Pomodoro's is that gonna take me? Three.

Starting point is 01:01:16 All right, that one's gonna take me two. That was a take, right, that's my day filled. And then you have a way to actually assess at the end. Like, I thought that was gonna take me three, it took me four, right, well that, I thought that was gonna take me two, two, two, three. So actually you get better at looking up, that's a task, and that's how I'm gonna say it.

Starting point is 01:01:34 That's a three-pum task, that's two-pum. And you just see things as, that's four-pum-adomes, two-pum-adomes. So I've started doing that in my focus matrix. So now, look at them and say, So in my focus matrix tasks, I have square brackets with three, two or whatever, after the task, so that I know I'll do it. You can build your day, and then you can build a day plan just that, Pomodoroes.

Starting point is 01:01:55 And then you've got a map for the day. They might have some tasks that are like 15 Pomodoroes or something. There's no better feeling than doing a three Pomodoroes task and two Pomodoroes. Just because you're ahead. Oh, yeah. What's that? That's a nice little sign. Yeah, if I've I've a title in my wallet, you know, the thing that the GPS tracking thing. It only goes off during podcast press on my wallet, which is here with my elbow.

Starting point is 01:02:18 It has a feature that allows me to find my wallet by squeezing it. So that's what that was. It allows you to find your wallet by squeezing it. It's squeezing the wallet. It's squeezing the wallet. Yeah, it's just a tie-in. Here I am, I wouldn't need to squeeze it. Evidently, it's annoying.

Starting point is 01:02:30 It's a good, initially, but it's annoying. One of the first criticisms, or one of the first arguments that Darren had. So my business partner is the perfect avatar for someone who is genetically predisposed to be a fantastic businessman, incredibly shrewd, and like he 80-20 my 80 20 from this right. So he just doesn't subscribe to the vast majority of the stuff but some of the things like the track pad speed and the automatic car a few other bits. He's kind of trickled down. But the first criticism

Starting point is 01:02:57 he had was well that means out of every half an hour I'm losing five minutes. I'm like okay it's more if you tried to work all the way through. I mean, again, it's, it's simply a lack of perspective. It's like someone who does five, three, one things that don't need to be load. You're wrong. You're absolutely wrong. And you'll be, the system will preview wrong eventually when it crushes you. That is such an impromptu. I was exactly the same thing. You get, you get 25 minutes in your day and it's like, oh, I'm done with that. I'm done with that. I'm done with that. I'm done with that. I'm done with that.'m dead of the bed. I've got one here. I'm a tanker. No, no, no, no, I'm not taking it.

Starting point is 01:03:27 Suddenly, it's an hour later, you've lost all structure. You're on YouTube, you don't know why. So just take the fucking break, that follow the structure. The analogy of fucking harder is fucking harder. It's so correct. And you have a Dunit where you feel mint. Like the command shift, command shift S, command shift B,

Starting point is 01:03:48 which is like skip this current break intervals, start this current work. I love that you're on the keyboard short, that's for it. It's been so hard. And I'm just like, yeah, fuck this. Watch me go double up. Like, and then you fail. Don't you? Every fucking time. Yeah. So another mini hack is I have been doing,

Starting point is 01:04:07 so we've mentioned Anton Creel on this podcast quite a few times. So he has a very thorough course to learn how to trade. So I look at that and think, right, this is, there are 28 modules here. So each of them is probably an hour. Like that's, okay. That's a lot of content of like it's not like, so this is how you get motivated and this is like, okay, so we'll hedge out the alpha with the bit like fucking hell, like this is a degree

Starting point is 01:04:35 basically. So all I do is when my Pomodoro Brick starts, I, my app on the ceiling, stop my music, change tab, play, start the Anton video, and I like get up and make sure I'm away from my desk, but that allows me to do an hour of a course I'm trying to do, and I don't even notice it. So within my brakes, and it's not quite, I can't do it all day because it is quite cognitively demanding, but it's very different than what I've been doing. So it feels like... It's enough of a frame shift to be... it's very different than what I've been doing. So it feels like...

Starting point is 01:05:05 It's enough of a frame shift to be able to come back to the work. I was doing this. And especially when it's interesting as well. I don't think I'd be able to do that each time. See, probably made for the first four or five of the day, get it done, and then run out of gas. It's a matter of... When you actually...

Starting point is 01:05:20 I have to have fun down, but my workplace environment design now is quite good, so it's like funs away or funs in another room and I'm controlling like wirelessly through air pods. Which retreats out like a child, don't you? That's exactly what you got called to. I don't need it. I don't need it for my life. I was like someone who needs cool to. I don't need it for my laptop.

Starting point is 01:05:42 I don't have an alcohol problem. Is that one of our life hacks before? Yeah, we've done. We have. So the other thing I do at the start of the polaro, you have a different setup, but I just do click a little. I won't even. Is it the time I think? The logo for cold turkey. Oh, it's a turkey. I was a turkey. Click the turkey. Start, start block. What's up a nine message, 25 minutes,

Starting point is 01:06:04 email 25 minutes, and then it goes bidding when I try and press and it's like, then a number of times I go to like open iMessage reflectively or go and open email. Just like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, look how fickle you are you take it. It may as well be like, you pick up your phone, it's like, you just don't realise like my default, if something's a bit hard, I was like, just check email. And before I know, I know what's happened.

Starting point is 01:06:32 Yeah, it's been electrocuted. Right, you said what have you got? Now this is one volunteered from Benny, who is the wonderful audio man who does all of the who is the wonderful audio mountain who does all of the probably for us and also a good friend as well. So he has said, life hacks tip. No, the reason I'm pre-facing with the fact that it's him that suggested this is this scares the hell out of me in my bag. Okay.

Starting point is 01:07:00 Life hack tip, Chrome extension tab Wrangler. It'll auto close tabs that are open after a period of defined in activity. Essentially user will lose it, stop procrastinating with tabs as a to-do list. That is fantastic. It really scares me. That makes me, that makes me want to go to the same. So why? So what's, what, talk me through your objection?

Starting point is 01:07:23 Sometimes I have tabs open as permanent reference. I know I should set up like an Alfred Shortcut maybe for it, but why don't you start with as is in other notepad? Sometimes they're like wiki websites or whatever where you need like to the BMJ website. I always have my Chrome always has first one is to do list, which is on a cloud document, which I know you guys will hate, but that's a separate point. And then the second one is the shared ad spends Google Drive file. This comes from us over-engineering Google to make it use it as apps that it's not designed for. And I know it probably, you might be listening

Starting point is 01:08:02 and thinking, oh, that sounds like a bunch of excuses, guys, like just suck it up. I think more people will be listening and thinking, what the fuck are they on about? Why are you so bothered about saving five minutes per day? Why are you so bothered about having a cloud-based like ad spend? What you don't understand, person who's watching watching is that this is everything to us. It's also everything to them, they just don't realise it. It is. This is why you need to listen to life hacks. Everyone has a bodybuilding goal, they just don't realise it.

Starting point is 01:08:34 This is exactly the same thing. Yeah, that's a real bug bear for me. Everyone does have, you're like, oh I'm not interested in bodybuilding. Yes you are. You want to be less fat and you want more muscle, just because you don't want to be Ronnie Coleman, doesn't mean that you don't have a muscle. You don't want to be Ronnie Coleman now.

Starting point is 01:08:51 So Ronald was right when he said, Ronald, by one little birdie birdie. Nobody wanted to lift any heavy ass weight. They don't, but I mean, they're being a more true statement. Ron shouldn't have lifted the heavy ass weight either, should he? He lifted the netlacer, yeah.

Starting point is 01:09:04 So you watched it. No. Oh man, it's just a bit of net face though, yeah. So you watched it? No. Oh man, it's just a bit of a harrowing. Well, he's like barely walking stuff. So it's quite sad actually. He's on the top end dose of those real big dick painkillers that Oxys. Oh really?

Starting point is 01:09:19 Yeah, he's on like the 30s or 40s of them, like three times a day now. Okay. He's just immensely positive. And he's still training. Yeah, he's still going into that fucking, whatever it is, powerhouse gym or whatever it's called. Just to stress out the extensions and stuff.

Starting point is 01:09:34 Really? Does like a feet up bench press? He can't, he's bad. I think he's, people think he's a big caricature, but I think he operates, operates it and operates it on very high notes. Oh, he's a very smart guy yeah. But all that like who the fuck is about a double 700 pounds squat is going like

Starting point is 01:09:50 Wooo! You put on a yellow banana and then it's walking the engine down the road just for the time. Like when you're still not taking it seriously. When you're doubling a 700 pound a 300 pound kilo squat plus. It's brilliant. And it's still just a joke to you. Yeah. I mean 800. It's still just a joke to you. Yeah

Starting point is 01:10:07 It's 800 pounds Solid ass What was what was your one was the tab Wrangler tab Wrangler to airbrangler I for anyone else who is running a podcast that has life hacks on a life hack for your life hacks podcast is to do show notes while you Well, you're doing this. Yeah. Oh, what else? So, we've already spoken about this, but I want to bring it up again, and I'm going to enjoy doing this as well. I think we need to revisit some of them later down the road, because we're getting new

Starting point is 01:10:33 viewers. How about there's ones from Lifehack's one that we need to look back on? Oh, we definitely do, and this is one that I've recently fallen in love with, and it's yours, Flume. Oh, yes, Chris. It's just. If you need to use Instagram, you shouldn't be using it on your phone.

Starting point is 01:10:49 My argument to our boys is, and I gave them a sit down about productivity the other day in the office, and I said essentially, if your phone is out while you're at work, you're not doing work, and if you're not doing work while you're at work, you might as well be at home. So if you get your phone out, just go home.

Starting point is 01:11:04 Like, you can use iMessage on your laptop, WhatsApp, web, Facebook, Twitter, and with Flume. Like the one, the last bastion of why I need to get my phone out was that because it's like, you're not, you know, don't fucking bullshit me, you're not doing work on Snapchat. Like, so, so it's just a very nice interface for Instagram on your laptop. You can post, if you pay like five pounds for the pro version, you can even post photos with all of the editing filters and all the rest of the stuff. I have no idea because it's fucking not certified by Instagram. But all of your credentials are held securely.

Starting point is 01:11:42 You can have multiple accounts to log into. There used to be that the problem with these Instagram apps is that you can only view and you couldn't post from a laptop. Flume does allow you to, you can just drag photos in from your finder. The only thing you can't do is schedule, but there are other apps that you can do for that. But this allows you to schedule it to post out photos, videos, all of the functions of the app.

Starting point is 01:12:02 Do you comment, reply to DMs, select people. You're the frame, you know, when you post a video and you select the like, the still frame, you can do all that. Literally. It is the only thing that you can't do and they do need to so it is it doesn't have what it classes as support for temporary messages, support for temporary disappearing messages, i.e. anything on stories. So you can't upload to your story, view stories, or respond, see replies, which are responses to yours or other people's stories.

Starting point is 01:12:33 And for me, that probably constitutes about 30 to 50% of my Instagram DMs. Like you put your stories up throughout the day and you get responses to that. That is frustrating. And it won't just get my message that says unsupported. Unsupported, And it won't just get my message that says, I'm supported. Unsupported, which is a little bit annoying. But for instance, if you need to, like, one of the underrated tools that people who have big followings on Instagram should use is essentially like direct marketing or below the line marketing to their followers, because all of them have given you access to their inbox. But the reason that you wouldn't do it is it's so fucking

Starting point is 01:13:05 arduous to go through to navigate through, you're on the app, you're swiping back into four. I used to say to Instagram message, because you've been like, I've got a fat sum and I've got a try and open it up and this and the other, but with this, you can just have, especially if you've got Alfred, you've got a big fat clip board,

Starting point is 01:13:18 open up a bunch of conversations, go through, hey man, so I've got a list of people that I know have particular interests, I've got a buddy called Ben, who's in America, so I've got a list of people that I know have particular interests. I've got a buddy called Ben who's in America, so whenever I have a podcast, it's about physics that I need to put up, so I can just navigate to him. Here's a link. I've got it all pre-saved in there. And the keyboard shortcuts within the app as well. Yes. Just command five, six, whatever. So another thing that you can do, which is unbelievable

Starting point is 01:13:41 for Flume as well, which I wish you could do for the actual real Instagram app is. You can get rid of the different areas. So I've got rid of my newsfeed. So you can actually get rid of that particular thing from it. So there's no newsfeed tab, there's no discover tab. So you just have messages. Search messages and my profile. Three across the bathroom.

Starting point is 01:14:03 I don't know you can do that. So there's just no browsing, there's no like explore, there's no discover, there's no newsfeed, and it's just a productive stuff. Just my shit. Have you used the code post as well? So you can right click on someone else's photo. Yeah, it's got an internal,

Starting point is 01:14:18 it's got an internal repost function, so you don't even need that. Yeah, Flume, I will. It contains the original quality, it copies the caption over it, it's like it's so easy. It's just opposite to what most people use Instagram for, isn't it?

Starting point is 01:14:28 That's true. I suppose you have to be an Instagram, like, you have to be trying to be building a brand, I suppose, for this, after a matter. Because most people are on Instagram. To consume it. But I mean, if you're on Instagram to consume, as you're also on this channel,

Starting point is 01:14:40 that leads me to my life hack. It's amazing. I suppose ironically, they're using Instagram more mindfully than we are are because they're just enjoying Instagram for the purpose of Instagram. They don't know that they're in the fucking matrix too, like you are wasting your life. They're getting the inherent enjoyment from them. So Cal Newport who's written Deep Work which was about to review just written a book called Digital Minimalism. So I think the three, arguably four, three books that everybody should read

Starting point is 01:15:06 are atomic habits, deep work and this. So deep work is the ability to focus deeply on a task which is he calls like the super power of his generation. Super power of his generation, yeah. And then building habits that last James Clears book is incredible for him. And then the stuff that last James Clears book is incredible for that. And then the stuff that gets in the way of that is the one notification

Starting point is 01:15:30 and Cal Newport has then applied the same very similar framework to basically auditing your digital life. So the book, I mean I'm about halfway through, you basically talks about evaluating what is it you're trying to achieve with a piece of software or an app is that the best way to achieve that outcome. So like people say, I like Facebook because I get to see my cousin's baby photos. Replace that with, call your cousin once a month and the connection will be better, the, the, the co-example. A better relationship with your cousin. Yeah. So don't like these platforms are designed to suck you in, keep you there, get you to, to stay on that screen. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:16:12 So don't, don't give them that unless it's absolutely worth it. And go through a 30 day digital detox and then evaluate what you missed and why. It's first time I know you're not actually a teacher. As well. Like I am. Because a lot of people will say, like, oh, well, I've used Facebook and it's fine.

Starting point is 01:16:27 Like, I don't see the big problem. Yeah. If you get rescue time and just run it for a month, don't look at it until the end of the month. And then look back and see how much time you've absolutely pissed away on Facebook. And Facebook. And then you phone as well.

Starting point is 01:16:39 Then you're like, oh, so here's an interesting thing. An interesting thing I did used to do with my laptop, I don't do anymore, actually, is I would total, so in the Pomodoro book, he recommends track your Pomodoro's and like the log. So I did it when I initially started them, and I would compare time on rescue time, which is screen time in a week to Pomodoro time. So how much time, it was like 10 to 15?

Starting point is 01:17:03 No, no, it was like 10 plus hours across a week. And I'm just like on my laptop. Yeah. Well the fuck am I doing? I can watch five films. Is that not on time? Time, like in between Pomodoro's and... A little bit of it.

Starting point is 01:17:14 Yeah, I can see it. Yeah, there's gonna be a number of, there's gonna be an hour a day. I don't know, actually, I tracked a pot, a class of Pomodoro's 30 minutes. Okay. That's very clever. So that's just,

Starting point is 01:17:24 so I see two Pomodoro's as an hour of work. Yeah, essentially. Yeah, okay. That'd be a minimalism. So frightening, scary. Most people wouldn't do that, that's a thing. How ruthless, because CalMUport is like, you don't need to be on social media to build a brand,

Starting point is 01:17:42 you don't need to be, like, I've seen, is it a TED talk that he gave? Where it's like about how, and these are the common reasons as to why people say that they can't get off social media. And like, fucking hell, Cal. It's like, it presses your buttons. 50 Cal? Like, head shot. Because he uses an example of a guy who's like trying to build his like...

Starting point is 01:18:01 He's guitarist, he's trying to build his brand on social media. And just lists reasons as to why, like... It's not the guy's excuses. Yeah. He was like trying to build his guitarist, he's trying to build his brand on social media. And just lists reasons as to why, it's not like he has excuses. Yeah. Even Anton Creel has a section where he's like, get rid of your smartphone. I don't care what your reasons are,

Starting point is 01:18:15 just get rid of your smartphone. I use Inocchio 8210. And it's less MS. It stores 15 numbers and SMS. But he tweets a lot. So he has his wife manage his and SMS. But he tweets a lot. So he has his wife manager's Instagram. Yeah, he tweets a lot though. He tweets, so he is rulers.

Starting point is 01:18:32 Is he writing on a bit of paper or something? Schedule, like do all of your work on Facebook, Twitter, once a week, schedule it, impossible. You think he's doing it? For you, it's impossible. For him, it's impossible. You think he's uploading stuff like that? He's quote, he's quote tweeting stuff

Starting point is 01:18:44 that's occurred within maybe maybe maybe violating his own rule. He must be like, because he's too responsive. Right. Online. Like, he can't schedule a quote. The thing that's up on top of this. Fuck you.

Starting point is 01:18:55 And it's possible. He does have a media team. So it is possible. Because he has a guy who manages to manage all this. It is unequivocally in his tone. In it. Okay. We've rumbled it.

Starting point is 01:19:09 Yeah. But then, I don't know. Like, it seems to me, especially like, there's that quote, no one is ever too busy to tell you how busy they are. It's like, no one is ever, so few people are too digitally minimal to not care about being on Twitter. Like Neville Ravacan, like bro, you are without a doubt one of the biggest dicks that I've ever seen in my life. So the lot of time on Twitter still, I don't, is it?

Starting point is 01:19:35 Twitter just doesn't interest me at all. Me neither. And what George McKillin will be? A lot of dicks, yeah. Yeah. George McKillin will be listening is is he's leveraging off this, right? Like he's leveraging off this hyper-afferism, like 360 character life fucking advice stuff

Starting point is 01:19:52 that's going on. And like for the people that like to consume that, then cool, but I've got a couple of problems with it. First one is, there's no context. And it's like fucking wide as an inspirational partner, change your life. It's like, well, because time under tension, like is it matters?

Starting point is 01:20:04 And then the other thing is, the dick measuring thing or the dick swinging thing, like, it just becomes everything so pithy. And it's like, you can just tweet stuff that doesn't have to be like change you better than you. And this is a change your world. And like, it's an innovative way to use a platform. I just far rather like listen to the people in a long form podcast or like buy their book or like you were saying the day that books are the value you get from a book for like five quid seven quid. It's absolutely incredible. It's a person's life work and they've spent years editing and writing it out and formulating their ideas.

Starting point is 01:20:45 And then they quit. And then we did a week. It's just been brushed out or like a, yeah, you know, it's just it's so. It gets read by 25,000 people. It's crazy. And the thing I suppose that you don't, that certainly before we started using these things for business, you don't see as a user is that the way the platforms work is it encourages a race to the bottom with clickbait. For people to get seen in the field. So Tristan Harris was saying

Starting point is 01:21:10 Tristan was saying how the emotion of outrage is algorithmically the most successful thing. So the only thing which comes second to it is like hyper agreement. Yeah. So you end up either with things which superbly support your view. Which is why I like that. So the anti-vaxxer groups become these crazy circle jokes of like, you know, someone, someone posted, I think I'm asking you out on the screenshot, someone said, oh, like, I've been diagnosed with sepsis and like, I'm critically ill.

Starting point is 01:21:44 What should I do? I don't want to take antibiotics. And someone was commenting me and I just take high dose vitamin C and you'll be it's like that is fatal advice that you do. Because you're in your friend. Yeah, but because you're in the zecure chamber of like oh yeah, scurantebiotics, I was just big pharma trying it. So you end up with these pockets of people that are just hyper-agreing with each other. And it becomes, there was something of a woman, did you send it to me?

Starting point is 01:22:11 With the kids. A woman's whose kid had a meningitis or something. Yeah, I didn't get them vaccinated. And he's got the disease. What do I do? Yeah, walk off. It's so, it's like, so don't build this argument and then backtrack the doctor up.

Starting point is 01:22:23 The doctor I was working with yesterday said that she was on a plane and someone had basically a sudden onset severe pain in the in the like lower chest upper stomach area, which could be a number of things that obviously quite quite dangerous and severe. She went over to attend to the patient and she felt this person just like standing behind her and she was like no no you need to get some chillies, you need to get some chillies for it and she was like I'm sorry what I'm a herbalist he needs chillies because she was like okay this guy's got a bleed in the stomach potentially and you want to give him chillies also we're on a plane like where do

Starting point is 01:23:04 you go to the kitchen ask for some chillies like go away like where do you get the kitchen? I asked for some chilies like go away. Like I appreciate you wanting to help. But so, Brian Cox said that in his presentation someone said like, calling me the question, but was something like do you think

Starting point is 01:23:18 is a downside to science or something? And you weren't. Yeah, I mean, if you're missing different things and for example, you think vaccines are bad or something like that, then yes, that is bad. But I different things and for example, you know, you think vaccines are bad up something like that Then yes, that is bad. I just thought like the way that he just just not even getting a time of day Like it's not even have you listened to mine? Be careful if you listen to one Joe Rogan. No, I want to man. He's he is I'd forgotten how much of a mother fuckery is and

Starting point is 01:23:39 And you don't because you presume that like fucking color Revelli or some of these more kind of back room physicists and like you discredit Neil de Grazis and just because of how like prolific he is you presume like you think beg girls isn't hard you know like no beg girls would fuck you up yeah like and he's so mainstream yeah and you forget like that's the equivalent of being the best in your field, the equivalent of being the cream of the crop. And yeah, maybe like, if you niche down within to one area of bears, like, survivalism,

Starting point is 01:24:14 he might not be as good or fucking, or the building, he might not be as good as this guy, or, you know, particle physics, or like, whatever, like, astrobiology. What is face might not be good, so good. But you good be like if you want to take a fucking broad spectrum view He's got like it's a cosmic sized Shlug isn't it yeah, yeah, the thing that was mental about it was it's Friday night

Starting point is 01:24:36 And there's a stadium on a stadium and a arena full of people listening to a physicist explain space time And like as I was leaving, so like, I'm sat there's a moment where you, I realized like, this is not going to be relaxing night night, two hours. And you go from this, like, right, but I pay attention here, like, fucking hell, like this is not all the kills to run. And it's lovely that exists on a large scale and there's not become a kind of, you should visit that. I look around and you think, all these people are here to listen to some loud, explain space time.

Starting point is 01:25:08 And I find that really interesting, but I can't believe that I'm there. There's enough of you to. And then as you're leaving, you hear people go, well, I don't know, so I know, no, no. But they're still like, wow, this is great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What the fuck is going on?

Starting point is 01:25:21 The Brian Cox thing makes a little bit more sense to me than the Peterson Sam Harris Erich Weinstein thing. So how many people were there? 10,000? 20,000? No, well I don't know. 5,000? I don't know.

Starting point is 01:25:35 I feel like you're the person that was there. I don't know how many stands were open. I don't know how far he'd taken the stairs. Yeah, if there's anyone I trust to look at a crowd of people, I can tell you. I can tell you, but I don't know how much. So anyway the... Yeah, if there's anyone I trust to look at a crowd of people, it'd be nice. I could tell you, I could tell you, but I don't know how much. So anyway, it was a little way off the end, and there was seating all the way up and in the center.

Starting point is 01:25:51 Right. So was he at the very, very end of the metro radio area? No. No. Right, halfway. A little bit past halfway. Right, okay, so that would be... Okay, so that would be probably the same as that for Cirque du Soleil, which would be like...

Starting point is 01:26:03 And would you have got pulled up onto the stage? I got made to go up on stage and dressed up as a woman, yeah. Um, yeah, I'm from a few thousand people. So I reckon that's maybe, let's say that there's 5,000 people at his show. Might be more, might actually because... All pay 50 quid. Yeah, so I mean, that, but that's crazy. But when me and George went to go see Jordan Peterson, like, I get Brian Cox just a little bit more.

Starting point is 01:26:23 What do you do on TV? He's been on mainstream, He's been a mainstream TV. There's a big audio visual element to it. Like it's a glorified role-luster. Yeah. Jordan Peterson was him. And his massive fucking spindly fingers, just talking about archetypes and cooling everyone in the crowd.

Starting point is 01:26:43 It's his fan hands. And how many people were there? 3000, between two and 3000. And all eagerly wanting to hear. And you heard Jordan Peterson break down his income. No. Where is it? He's on YouTube.

Starting point is 01:26:59 So there's a video where he gets interviewed by a French reporter. Oh, yeah. And the French reporter. And Dick actually. Yeah, we're trying to trigger a little bit. Yeah. So he, he, the French reporter asks and exposes finances. He's like, okay, I'm well, sure. Um, he's got pretty big business for what I assume is a, like, him and maybe one or two other people. Well, future, future author and sweet and, uh,

Starting point is 01:27:22 and the south. I think he's making like,'s basically making a million quid a year off Patreon. Yeah. Well, not any more, but at the time the video he was. Yeah. And then like he went through book sales and events and stuff like that, terrifying. It's big numbers like much bigger than I was. So the funny thing about that, Joe Roganoludes to it all the time is that he says, like, the left fucked with the wrong person. Like if you were going to pick someone to fuck, to not fuck with, it would be Jordan Peterson. Like, okay, we're going to just like poke this frog and see what happens. We pick the venomous one, doesn't it? And you're like, oh my god, this frog, this frog is certainly probably, what's he worth

Starting point is 01:28:03 now? Maybe like 10 20 male probably more seeing it wouldn't have happened unless the initially was what you're yeah and you're like oh my god and you're just watching him grow into this huge fucking towering like yeah monster it's grown fans and he can fly this Leviathan comes out over the top of you fire he's got these huge fingers and he's waving him around. And he's like, oh my god, now he's rich. Oh shit, now he's like Patreon. And he's like, when he starts up his own version of subscribe because his dick's too big.

Starting point is 01:28:37 Yeah, it's just like when he's when it's shoulder, him and Sam Harris are going to start up their immersion of subscribe star or Patreon. Like, when that happens, they're going to be taking a percentage of everyone that moves over there and everyone fucking loves them. This is something that Garrett White who I imagine will not have been on yet. He will have probably been. Or maybe, maybe. So something that he spoke about with regards to like trying to get a message to people.

Starting point is 01:29:00 It's like people trying to do charity events and things like that. But like what really makes a difference is the bloke with 10 million quid. And like you just can't argue with that because like you can do whatever you want. And like, to pack bags at Morrison's, but if there's a bloke with 10 million quid, he wants to get an assage out, he's going to win every single day. And so as Jordan Peterson progresses, it's his richer it's going to be harder and harder to shoot him up to fight against it. He's done certain pay traffic behind stuff. It's just the stuff he can leave it. Can you imagine if Jordan starts using click fun? Just for us to start. Just for us to start with the big red lever with the Russell Brunsner going like

Starting point is 01:29:39 to hell at all. Okay, he's also loves a fight doesn't he? So like when that interview with the French reporter, like the French reporter gives him a bit of shit and he just shuts him down. Do you think? Oh, yeah, don't pop him up. So, he said this really interesting thing, I think it was on Joe Rogan again as well,

Starting point is 01:29:57 where he was talking about how he's happy to have the fight, but his natural proclivity isn't to that. And he says it takes him a couple of days to recover. So he spoke specifically about the GQ interview with the woman, which was like, Kathy Newman got sent away, trained for a while, like came back with a 220 deadlift. And like, she had notes with her and they didn't give him a microphone. It's for GQ. Micro-aggression? She just didn't realize that it was like Yuri Belkin meets Tom Martin. Yeah. Yeah. It was it was UFC one all over again. Right. And so he had that and he's referring to that and he goes

Starting point is 01:30:42 it took me like two days to kind of recover from that because the, and you are right, like he's able to keep his cool to a degree that like I've never ever seen anyone, like even Sam Harris lost his shit. Like he doesn't just be very conscious of the fact that he lost his shit. Yeah, he'll watch himself. And we heard the story, I'm just segwaying massively here, we heard the story about when Sam Harris ended up getting, like two articles came out about him at the same time, it was at two hit pieces, he was on holiday in Hawaii. No, no, he was with his family.

Starting point is 01:31:15 Yeah, he was with his family and he just told Pidos he's on holiday. LAUGHTER Completely told P. So he'd had this exchange back. Watching himself told Pidos on holiday. He'd had this exchange back and forth with Ezra Klein from Vox and he'd had this thing and then... Remember him tearing apart Ezra Klein on their podcast later? With them. So they sat down and had this podcast, and he's like, Ezra, Ezra, Ezra, like, please,

Starting point is 01:31:43 in the interest of everybody's sanity that's listening and like the way he goes on and but he's basically his idea was I'm on holiday this is really annoyed me fuck what do I do I also like my wife's here like so I'm gonna get in the doghouse for keep on doing this which is nice to know that Sam Harris still like has to suffer with stuff like that. Be in the dog house. Yeah you know I mean, like, some foreign house. I'm, um, but I'm not meditating. Well, that can you make? Yes, he's so thoughtful of mindful of this. Yeah, to get yourself off the fucking sofa tonight.

Starting point is 01:32:14 Um, so yeah, and he's, he's saying that his, his solution was to just publish the email exchange. So to have this big email exchange, big long one, just like scroll, screenshot, scroll, screenshot, scroll, screenshot, like just well done. And just published out, but didn't really like double check how it looked and because there wasn't any context behind that, that made him look even worse.

Starting point is 01:32:35 And then he just like, tweet, fund down, face down, like on the table, came back to it a couple of hours later and like all hell had broken loose. And you're like, fuck. It's just that it's nice to know that people, like everyone has to deal with. It's so weird. So weird. You can set all hell going loose just by like, tights on the third.

Starting point is 01:32:54 And also all hell hasn't broken loose. It's just different things happening on the screen. Yeah, true. If you take a very sensory view of it, it's like, yeah, it's all just one sun. So was that your... Digital Minimilism. Digital Minimilism. Yeah, yeah. Mine is an app called, so you guys are going to hate this, but it's all just fun. Listen, son. Like, so was that your digital minimalism? Digital minimalism, yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:33:06 Mine is an app called, so you guys are gonna hate this, but it's called Spotify. So even VXT has shaken his head out. Do you need a cushion? I'm thinking I'm just gonna have to go. So guys, what Spotify does is if you have, this is even set off Johnny's tile, if you have Spotify free and you hate the really intrusive, quite loud adverts, like the volume on,

Starting point is 01:33:37 because you mean that earning potential. Chris has had to write it in the thing. So normally this music, and then it's like, Hey, welcome back. And then back to the music again, you're like, let's just blow my head off. What spot the free does is it just detects one and adverts coming and just mutes the spotify for 30 seconds. So it doesn't speed up the way that you play music. It just gives you 30 seconds. It doesn't allow you to play songs within playlist without

Starting point is 01:34:05 it being on random. No, you can. So on the desktop version. So this one free is a desktop app. You get full function Spotify apart from being able to play at the same time on multiple devices and you can't. You get kind of down. You. Okay. And self-versus. I think that we'll do. I'll do one more and then we'll do a quick fire round. Okay, there's no iPhone equivalent. No, so you're obviously just spotifying your iPhone. I don't really use it on the phone. Would you listen to the gym?

Starting point is 01:34:36 Podcasts or just about music? Do you know? Sometimes. Sometimes. Sometimes. I'm a little T for sure. As I have to start. Sometimes I'm a little team. Oh, sure. It's time. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:34:46 So, Philip Sunrise lamp. Right, yeah. Absolute fucking game changing. So, especially if you are from the UK and you don't get an awful lot of sunlight, you'll know that seasonal effective disorder, sad is a real thing, like I definitely feel better in the summer and worse in the winter. One of the reasons for that is your natural circadian rhythm gets thrown off due to melatonin production that is dictated by the amount of light exposure

Starting point is 01:35:21 that you get. A solution to that are these indoor sun lamps that you can get that are measured in lumens and they match the particular tone of sunlight outside and you expose yourself to it for a particular amount of time. Sunrise lamps aren't bright enough, even this one, which is the biggest dick one that you can get. It's not bright enough for that to make a real difference, but for me it's enough to kind of make me think that it's going to help. So the main thing is it's the same as a radio alarm clock that you would have normally, but it's got a bright as fuck light, which is a similar hue to what you'll get on daylight that comes on before the sound goes off. So it means that you are able to wake up due to light

Starting point is 01:36:06 as opposed to due to sound. It then also can fire out like nature sounds or whatever it is at the end of it. But for me, it's the same as people that don't work in Pomodoro's. Like if you're waking up to sound now, like what is this? Like the fucking 1800s.

Starting point is 01:36:20 Oh yeah, mate, why don't you just like go and get someone to ring a bell at the local church tower outside of your window? Yeah, like so You set it away for a particular time and it will slowly begin to increase the intensity of the light over a half an hour period before you wake up and What that'll also do is Play around with your cortisol level on a morning and also your melatonin release in an effort to ready your body to be awake as opposed to sometimes especially if you're not using like sleep cycle which you'll use

Starting point is 01:36:51 your sleep waves to then also try and time things in. If you're not using either of these, your potentially in the middle of deep sleep and just getting like wrenched out of it, which is not a nice feeling, there'll be some days when you will wake up and you'll be like oh my god, you feel drunk, yeah, you try and wake up. Um, whereas... Organizing sometimes, like, the pain that you get upon waiting, like, I mean, just heart attend that round as well. I don't think I ever have like a productive morning or day, if I've working out feeling like that. Shit. Yeah. Um, so Phillips, sunrise lamp, there's also, there's a number of other settings that you can use for it. It's got a sunset setting, which is quite nice. So again, when you go to bed,

Starting point is 01:37:29 you can press 10 minutes and it will go down from its current brightness to zero. It's got a couple of other things as well where it's got a very, very low light way of displaying the time at night. I don't know this sounds so finiquity, but you don't realize just how much light like a normal LCD clock will actually give off. If it's a fucking red one, like you know one of those,

Starting point is 01:37:56 they give a moment of battle I have one. And you're like, this is brighter than it is during the day. Like if it's all red, you feel like you're in a Tom Clancy movie. And then someone's gonna like rainbow six, you door it, you're like come in with a bit dull red. You feel like you're in a Tom Clancy movie. And then someone's going to like rainbow six you're drawing like, come in with a fucking lazy girl. So it's like, so yeah, that's really low. I've now taken this to another level of anal and have got a second sunrise amp of a different brand of the far side of the room. Nice.

Starting point is 01:38:27 Reason for that is that my new year's reservation is no phone in my bedroom. My, you're an idiot if you just have, it's like an asymmetric risk. If you only have one alarm clock, I needed a second alarm clock, but I couldn't use my phone. I also couldn't use one,

Starting point is 01:38:41 which literally bought another alarm clock. But the thing is as well, I couldn't buy another Philip Sunrise alarm because if the power goes off then I'm fucked still. So what I've got is and it's only about 30 quid, it's if you don't have 120 quid spent on a Philip Sunrise alarm, this will be moderately adequate alternative. It's just a cheaper version of it, but the crucial thing this has is you put three triple A batteries in and if the power gets killed, so it'll kick in on that. That's cool. So I'm like, I've got a backup power.

Starting point is 01:39:12 I've got a backup thing, which I mean, like the other thing as well is like, I wake up at the time when I tell myself to wake up. Like the only thing that I'll miss, like if the power went off in the house, all that would happen is my miss my morning routine. Like it's very rare that I have to get up for anything other than my desire to wake up. The best insurance against that is to just wake up at the same time every day. Because it's eventually like, now I wake up pretty much every day before any alarm goes off. And you get predictably tired at the same time. I dream for the day when that's going to be the case, but for me that's not happened.

Starting point is 01:39:43 So we're now doing quick fire. Quick fire rounds. So mine feeds off that, which is I'm on second stint of no caffeine, but now I think I'm just going to make it permanent. Really? Bloody hell, I'll explain. So the first time I did it was a 30 day challenge, like your friend said, I bet you can't go for 30 days of that coffee, so fuck you yes I can. So I went for 30 days. I don't see the day without coffee at all, so that included decaf coffee. I really like coffee so I found that very difficult, tried lots of different teas, nothing was that great. This time, so then slowly slipped back into, you start with one coffee, and you're back to four coffees,

Starting point is 01:40:26 you're back to where I started. So start this year, I was like, first of January, you and you and me, I'll just stop having coffee, you see what happens, stop having coffee. So I've now, I've had caffeine on three occasions, all of them have been pre-workout and all the sessions have hit a big TV. So I think like very large PBs.

Starting point is 01:40:45 Yeah, so for the first time ever, I think, apart from like maybe the first pre-workout I've ever had, I'm experiencing the performance and enhancing benefits of coffee. Okay. And on a daily basis, do you talk through the PBs? Because I think so. So the way it happened was I was going to train slightly later than normal. It's a big squat session. I'm feeling a bit tired. I'll just have a coffee side and espresso, a single espresso. Got into training. Squat 200 goes down, 200 fires back up again and I was like, what the fuck? Just happened there like that. Wasn't expecting it. Two and and one of the bar, same thing happened. Two thirty, same thing. Two forty was

Starting point is 01:41:28 like the same speed. Two twenty would normally be. I was like, okay. Two twenty back on the bar. As I was going to do a set of five, did four and I thought, I was going to hit a PB here. So two twenty for six was a PB, hit seven, probably had another two or three in the tank. And I was like, it looks ridiculous. I was like, it'll be a one off. A couple days ago by, same thing happens with bench. So I write caffeine again, same thing, deadlift, same thing.

Starting point is 01:41:55 So, okay, caffeine's a very powerful thing. So on a daily basis now, I'll just have decaf coffee. And I don't honestly don't notice any change. Other than that, I'm decaf coffee you drink. So quite particular with this. So it was burnt coffee if you live in, you'd probably get it anywhere I suppose. But their decaf coffee is genuinely nice. As is the stuff you can buy in a Starbucks.

Starting point is 01:42:19 So Starbucks, decaf coffee. So you're not making anything at home? Yeah. I grind the beans, make it with an iced coffee company. What, is it just normal Decaf coffee? Just the beans. So I've got a big, kilo bag of the beans. They only do one.

Starting point is 01:42:32 Just a cup of beans. Just a cup of beans. Just a cup of beans. They've got like 12 caffeinated variations and then D1. Right, okay. So you know, I was wondering who it is. I think that's the same with most first brands. A good, the bean.

Starting point is 01:42:44 A good, the bean. Decaf coffee,, the same time it also comes over, but that's another conversation. So yeah, but that was your influence. I'm amazed that you are still going to have it pre-training. I think I'll probably use it strategically for big sessions or like competitions or like how do you sleep? I'm blown away. So that was what I was leaning on from that.

Starting point is 01:43:04 Like for me, I realized that, I only realized after giving coffee up, that caffeine up, that consistent way times are really difficult with caffeine. Because you don't, so to be clear, like I was the person telling you stuff who's pathetic about that. Perfect, dab it off.

Starting point is 01:43:19 For not having caffeine, and always use to think that it wasn't making any difference, but you don't realize how much of a difference it's making until you're in the... So annoying, I really wish it didn't last that long. I wish there was another option for caffeine, like an antidote. To just have a little nod to it. Yeah, but I've found so my caffeine usage tends to be once a day, first thing in the morning mostly because I like it. And also I do feel like I need that kick. I also train in the morning as well. But I genuinely, like, on a nighttime now,

Starting point is 01:43:48 like my eyes are drooping. That's what you want. And I think, podcasted with Dr. Greg Potter, he, his advice and he fucking knows what he's talking about. If you have nine hours before, like that should be your bottom end of where you prepared to take it.

Starting point is 01:44:04 I mean, I'm sure that there will still be some sort of effects downstream. If you have one at 6 a.m., and you go about it 9 p.m. at night, but I'm gonna hope that you'll probably be able to mitigate more stuff. It's always just those dependent, I think, as well. So, I feel like, yeah, I mean, I definitely, and I think the standard office work

Starting point is 01:44:23 is having a lot of caffeine. Anyone who's having caffeine after 5 p.m, like Darren, we'll go out for dinner. Yeah, and then Darren will have to coffee. Be like, after a restaurant meal, it completely bobbles me. So Ben has a theory that, so he will do that and doesn't feel anything, doesn't affect his sleep. Isn't that also about coffee? And he thinks that his girlfriend, his, like me, loves coffee and couldn't get to sleep. So he thinks there's just, it's people who are really responsive,

Starting point is 01:44:50 people who aren't responsive. They're my responses, that are still having an impact on you. But the people who say subjectively, I don't feel like I, there's much difference. But you also don't feel the, I'm out the percentage of REM sleep that you get in person right now.

Starting point is 01:45:03 Yeah, yeah. So he might be able to get to sleep. And so yeah, he doesn't fit like, from his mind, there's no- Of course, you don't necessarily feel dietary fat or sugar or protein. So it's still there. Oh, yeah, exactly.

Starting point is 01:45:13 And it was only when I started drinking coffee that I started to fall asleep during, so like I would be interested. Last year, I had just a couple. And I started falling asleep during the day. And I never fall asleep during the day normally. And it was just because the knock on effect of the reduced sleep quality that night. It was a long time ago. Especially this time of year. So you're maybe

Starting point is 01:45:32 lengthy or video about vitamin D and caffeine when there's no sunlight and how that can become a negative spiral. I think just try it, I suppose. You drink a lot of coffee, the first week is hellish. Well, if you do Johnny's, cat decafing protocol, which is on our Instagram, have a look then. That is hard, just make it seamless. You can even notice it's happening. It is, or you can rip the bandaid off and go,

Starting point is 01:45:58 maybe you see the mode. So speaking of Simon Luss, I am, no, no, no. No, if I'm, my life hack is cut a tennis ball in half. I was just joking about no Fak, but if you have a door that often hits the wall, makes a hole in the plaster, cut a tennis ball in half, superglue it to the wall. Looks like a nice little abstract bit of art on your wall, so that's that's one good thing. And also the door, the baths off the tennis ball and

Starting point is 01:46:30 the door stop. You can install the door stop, but like the heavy, heavy brass things that you stick in the floor. No, I was thinking more like wedge, well, just any door stop that's built for that. You're not going to remove the paint on your wall. This is for my front door. So yeah, so. I just, I just think that there will be a lot of people who are very particular about how they've decorated the house. Mm-hmm.

Starting point is 01:46:56 It's always a conversation piece. Oh, I was, I didn't look much funny there. Oh, I get it. That's so clever. Yeah, okay. It's all right. Yeah. Okay. I'm giving the choice. It is given given a choice between

Starting point is 01:47:08 hole in the wall and half-tell us ball in the wall. That's what it was. So I covered up in existing holes in the wall as well. Oh right. I mean, no, right? Yeah. I just thought fine. For the scooped of beans with. Felt to scooped the beans with. Can we look that clip? Video Monday will make it work. Can we have it here, Dean? Fuck the school of beans with? Footings like, oh guys, my- Where are you going, my little girl?

Starting point is 01:47:31 Just leave all this stuff. Okay. All right. Okay. Concerned you, Bertram. Okay. Okay. The new Alan Patrick is coming out soon

Starting point is 01:47:44 and we're all very excited. Oh my god. Okay, so my final one is as a gentleman, treat yourself with a sit down wee. Oh yes. Okay. I just, I think it's an undue use. You're not worried about your winky touching the toilet itself. Inside of the bowl.

Starting point is 01:48:02 Especially on my toy, I know that my toy that's very clean. Very hot. It gets hot clothes my toy that's very clean. Very hot. It gets hot colliders and really funny stuff. The previous owners of this house, when they had the dance doors toilet fitted, they plumbed the system of the dance doors toilet into the hot water and not into the cold. And it gets pretty clean.

Starting point is 01:48:20 Steamy in the winter. Yeah, there is steam coming. I think it'd probably be quite nice actually. It's pretty nice pretty warm. It's a fact you're yeah. It's a fecky bill as opposed to you don't know, do you? Fuck no. You never never not had it so. Yeah okay I don't know. I don't flush that much. It's a small you know what I mean it's like a small amount of water. But yeah sit down wait like especially you know I guess as a girl like if you're having a stand-up we have a sit down poop. You you're having a stand up week, how was it, Dan Pooh?

Starting point is 01:48:46 You're not having a stand up poo, are you? I tried. I've seen a guy take a stand up poo. Can you put a stand up poo? Yeah, he's a... What, in full extension, he's mental. He's got two really large testicles because he always gets them out. Is it that guy that calls it the brain?

Starting point is 01:48:58 No, but... Right. I was at a... I had a party at my house and when I left my room, he slipped into my bed, naked. And I was like, oh mate, you get me kind of cold, but no, get out of my bed, stop being naked. It's just always like, doing some exhibitionist. Yeah, there was a house viewing and students coming into view as a house and he was satin is room masturbating. I think knowingly, I mean, this is quite, it makes me sound like a real offender. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 01:49:32 Anyway, publicly masturbating in the outside of poo. Yeah, yeah, the outside of poo. That was better than that. Yeah, so sit down. Sit down. We especially, especially as well, you know, like if you wake up, I don't know whether you guys get this going on from the sleep thing You know when you wake up at like 5 a.m. Relations 4 a.m. No

Starting point is 01:49:52 5 a.m. A for you. Do you know thinking it? Thinking about erections planning out 5 a.m. A for you and you don't want to Allow yourself to pass the upper threshold of wakefulness because if you do, if you start to like deploy too much cognitive power to move around, so you like cade yourselves and you're like like, like, slap on the toe. Yeah, yeah. This is like, this is like, 100% the top benefit of sit down, we ease. Yes, yeah. Absolutely. Because you can just sit and you're like, ah, at least it's going in. You can sit head and hands or rest on your knees. Yeah. Not everyone's got, not everyone's got them ability that you do with. The life problem is just sad image.

Starting point is 01:50:32 Sit head and hands and contemplate your own mortality while you're having a sit down. And take your Arab head and hands. Would they completely stop it? They can completely shut us. Hell as art, oh someone, someone probably don't actually we've got the to finish off we've got completely done against the beat. Stop it. We can completely shut up. Hellas Arthole. Yeah. Someone, actually, we've got the to finish off, we've got a one that was submitted in the comments called me

Starting point is 01:50:51 in Daniel's sloss amateurs for saying that we have to work ourselves up to shave our artholes and said, boys, you're the absolute amateurs, beat sensitive. Really? Like, just beat the full thing washes off. I thought it was gonna go down the route of like, just go straight in with what?

Starting point is 01:51:12 Well, you were saying, is he was implying, you said you have to work yourself up to it? Work yourself up to like the bravery to put a shaver down there. Yeah, I'm saying so I thought he was gonna say, oh, I just, I thought, pack around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so I suppose the thing with using VEET, like a hair removal queen versus waxing. No, no, it's everything, everything's got

Starting point is 01:51:32 East Virginia, doesn't it? I'm sure it does. It's just the, like, one is the temporary solution, whereas waxing is like permanently weakening the follicles until eventually you don't have to shave. What is going on What is that why is it so long? I think this is a life fail It is a life fail fucking shit You invite yourself it was a Christmas present a year and a bit ago Yeah, I knew it was a new it's a new it was Johnny you like life It's a sort of thing I do need but but since then, knowingly, I've established a very consistent

Starting point is 01:52:05 routine with where I put my wallet. So, here's a good point for a little bit of a life fail. I came in once, like I always have the same routine when I come in, into the kitchen, bag goes down here, open the door, bag goes down, etc, etc. Everything has it to place. It's just idiosyncratic now, don't think about it. Once, came into the living room, lost my keys for half a day. I've diverted, diverted one choice came into the living room to say hi to to Lewis and I was like what the fuck is happening? It's just easy just taking care of my automatic behavior and that's

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