Modern Wisdom - #075 - Life Hacks 108

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello podcast people. Welcome back to modern wisdom. Today it is the return of life hacks. I am Incredibly excited to drop this episode today not least because it features Johnny and you sir from propane fitness.com But also because it is brought to you by the six-minute diary very kindly the guys from your best self who make the six-minute diary Have given me to to give away for. All you need to do is leave a review on iTunes. I'm going to guess that might be where you're listening. If not, grab someone's MacBook, jump on and leave us a review. And I'll go through and choose 2 people to win one at random. So shout out to the 6 minute diary for that. On to today's episode, it is monstrous. We go through

Starting point is 00:00:40 how whitening your teeth can be an instant upgrade in attractiveness, how to automate, tracking your weight, YouTube hacks, how to find the best meal in a restaurant when you're abroad, how to ensure that you're not being snited with your bills by companies who do phone contracts and utility contracts, and all of that good stuff. As per usual, all of the products that we talk about will be in the show notes below, and if you follow those links on to Amazon, you will be supporting the podcast at no extra cost to yourself,

Starting point is 00:01:13 but for now, it is Lifehack's time. Bring it on, Johnny and Yonisir from ProPen Fitness.com and it's Lifehacks 108. Big one. Thank you very much to the Protein Works for sponsoring the last episode. If you want to grab any of the products that we mentioned in that episode, it is in the show notes below. And today, the lovely people from your best self

Starting point is 00:01:55 are giving away two six minute diaries. You'll have heard of speak about the six minute diary before. You'll have heard of speak about them before. If you want to get into journaling or you already do it and you want to level it up Or you've already got a six minute diary and you just want a new one. There's two of them available here one in blue and one in pink And we're gonna give those away. I didn't know they had came in colors. Well, the lucky boy and girl Who, why don't you go and go and do? I might switch it around

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Starting point is 00:02:46 And if you are listening on any other device, go on a MacBook, borrow someone else's MacBook, a login on iTunes. So I just sort it out. Sort your life out. Yeah. We'll be giving away something on the next one. Maybe something that's on Stitcher or whatever people on Android use.

Starting point is 00:03:02 So yeah, we also said that we were going to choose a winner from last time for 150 pounds of protein works and I think it needs to be Das Charles otherwise known as Darren Moly on YouTube who suggested the Aldi low fat ready meal range and most ready meals are really crap I tried these out and I have to say very impressed really fantastic. So glad you've got on the I think he sent he actually sent in some suggestions of which ones he liked the most. Yeah I'm seeing that it was three in the comment. Five being chilly sweet potato curry and Moroccan vegetable stew. He also suggested micro-dosing LSD, which... Terrible idea. What was it that you said? It's the equivalent of eating some nuts and bolts

Starting point is 00:03:54 in an effort to try and up your eye and content. Yeah, it's exactly that. It's such a sledgehammer of a thing to do to take a little bit off. I know it's really popular in fancy and Silicon Valley, the same way that like avocado is good for the gym and stuff, but, but, it is a very powerful, potentially destabilizing molecule. We don't, hasn't really been like rigorously tested with people, at least caffeine, you know what you're getting and ultimately the people say that they take their microdose and it has a similar effect to caffeine. So just take caffeine. Yeah. Stop it. Other notable ones, Sarah, Charlton, but they can't be

Starting point is 00:04:35 hurt. Can't be dealing with this. Other notable ones, Sarah, Charlton, Cretchmer, when taking pills, chin up for tablets and chin down for capsules, because tablets sink while capsules float. That's someone who knows their tablets. No, they're fucking tablets. Someone suggested. What? Why is it only different? Well, because you need to get it. So if you have something that floats and you tilt your head back, you know, it's going to be at the front of your mouth while you're trying to swallow water. Uh-huh. Whereas if you do it with something that sinks it'll be fine

Starting point is 00:05:05 And if you do the reverse it'll be fine. Although tilting my head down Good and trying to swallow is quite difficult I don't think the buoyancy of the capsule is stronger than your capacity I'm not having no increase Diet hack, low super riveters Get some powder free nitri trial gloves for the kitchen, for all meat to prep so no hand washings needed. We already talked about this.

Starting point is 00:05:31 We just need to use scissors, single hand. So we're going to handle the meat. I never touch meat. I just dip it into my pressure cooker. It's already chopped. You can buy it, you can now buy pre-chop meat. So the vouchers have their nitrile free gloves. Life hack.

Starting point is 00:05:46 Life hack dry socks quickly by putting a hairdryer in them, drying about 20 to 30 seconds. It looks hilarious as well. So I think, just have a little break of hair, you know how sometimes hair dries. Yeah, I think it does. Like it blows them by. Yeah, big bad a boom. Some of these life hacks are dangerous. Yeah, my advice would be if you want to find out more of these submitted life hacks

Starting point is 00:06:06 head to life hacks one of seven links will be in the show notes below. And I'll do you ready meals? Yes. Macredosing LSD. You need to go on YouTube to have a look at these. But that's enough about the past. It's time to talk. No one said anything you have to do. I specifically said, please someone send us one for you.

Starting point is 00:06:24 I'm pretty certain there was a few and most of them were buy AirPods. You know how close we were to buying you AirPods for your message. Yeah, I would have been very upset. Well, I would have sold them on Facebook Market. I think you'd be more than like a 20 pound loss. That would have upset me, Chris. Right.

Starting point is 00:06:39 I'm gonna start because you do really, yeah. I'm gonna start today and first one I'm gonna go for is Whiter New Teeth. So Whiter New Teeth has kind of become a caricature of itself of like someone who probably uses Brill Cream still and has that that hairstyle. Like yeah like a quiff at the front like the guys out the in between However, I am going to propose that whitening your teeth or making your teeth whiter is probably one of the easiest ways to make yourself just have a bit more confidence and look a bit more polished and attractive, both in meetings for business, personal, like to the other sex or to the same sex. It's just for the people

Starting point is 00:07:24 that I know that do it, I notice, because I do, I notice for the people that I know that do it, I notice, because I do, I notice for the people that have like, over white teeth or particularly white teeth, and they're just the way that their smile is put together to me looks much more well polished literally. If you are interested in how you can do that, I would advise, if want to spend money,

Starting point is 00:07:45 if you want to spend big money, then the cosmetic dental clinic in Newcastle has my buddy David working there and I'm sure that he'll sort you out. But a much easier way is crest 3D white strips, which you can just buy on the internet. I don't think they're available on Amazon in the UK, but crest 3D white strips,

Starting point is 00:08:03 you can get like a two pack for 15 quid or 20 quid, and you just leave them on for about three to six hours, and you'll have noticeably white the teeth. Don't fuck about with whitening toothpaste or anything which isn't bleached basically, as far as I can tell, from someone who knows what he's talking about and does the teeth of half of a new castle football team, David. Anything which isn't bleached is mostly bollocks. Laser whitening is bollocks. There was little USB sticks that you put in your mouth that you see Kaname Gregor promoting

Starting point is 00:08:32 is also bollocks. Just think I've seen you with a blue thing in your mouth. Like a blue. That was when a lady used to come round to the office and do it. And as soon as David was like, make what you do and you're just wasting your time. So this lady would come up and do all of the lads in the office for free. Like just if you person on social media. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:53 And I was like, well, brilliant. And David was like, do you actually think that you take look that much whiter compared with when you bleach them? I'm like, yeah, it might be a bit placebo going on there. He's like, no, but like, it's done. So I have tried this before. Okay. And I did it with my dentist.

Starting point is 00:09:10 And it was expensive. And it gave me oversensitive teeth. That happens. So the way to get around, the way to get around oversensitive teeth, best way to do it. And this is what David would say is by some sensor-dine rapid relief put by a gum shield, put a little bit sensor-dine rapid relief in the gum shield, pop them over your teeth for about 10 minutes, then take

Starting point is 00:09:31 out, dry your teeth so they need to be dry, put your strips on, take it off, put the gum shield back on again, because it's the dentine, which is what's actually sensitive, but that helps to reduce the sensitivity and just keep on smashing a sensitive. I think, and this is probably wrong, but this is where my basic understanding is that it, because your teeth are porous, sensitive toothpaste makes it less porous or blocks the get holes, and then acid doesn't seep into the, the bleach doesn't get into the dentine as easily. But that, I've got hypersensitive teeth as well.

Starting point is 00:10:08 Right. And you're all right with it. I just need to be careful with how long I use it for. Right. As long as I don't absolutely pound it. So I have really bad memories of the dentist told me to leave them on overnight. So put this stuff in a gum shield way overnight. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:21 And just the next morning was like, I couldn't drink water. It was awful. So I use an overnight gel for three hours. Oh, wow. So I'm using it for less than half a time. And even that gives me little twinges, but that with the sense of dynamite, I'm sweet to set time away. And you learn, once you've done it one side,

Starting point is 00:10:38 but yeah, after three treatments maybe, is so much wider. It's just, I think it's a good, so I agree. I think it's an easy start, I agree. I think it's an easy upgrade. Hundreds of you can make it work. What do you think? Yeah, if there's this sort of thing that you might have a concern. I've done the crest. Yeah, not crests, we're a cognizant. But yeah, quitting coffee as well, like just stopping the things that are staining your teeth in the first place. Does this one stand? Milk in coffee, that are staining your teeth in the first place. Does it want to know? Milk in coffee reduce the staining.

Starting point is 00:11:06 Because whenever I was putting my dentist to our list, they would say avoid black coffee. And when I say, does that mean having milk removes it and they go? Yeah. Okay, I imagine so. David, if you're listening, can you please come and get me to the place. Thank you, mate. Right. Johnny, I haven't hopped to it until this time.

Starting point is 00:11:23 I knew it was coming. There's a bit of warmth to potato. Always coming around in this. He's held for a while. Yep. Have we mentioned Wi-Fi skills before? Maybe in live hacks, one. I think it was one or one. But I think it's worth anything. It's worth it again. Okay. So they're now I'm not here. worth. That's worth bringing in again. Okay. So they're now knocking it, knocking about withings or why things, but why five scales are, so if you weigh yourself every day, just a pre-mark or pre-mark. Pre-mark?

Starting point is 00:11:52 Yeah, me too. I think people that say pre-mark are psychopaths. And people that leave suds on the dish after they... Psychopaths, yeah. Sorry. That was a good, I agree. But, with interesting points. So I think everybody should be wearing this off daily regardless of your goal. We were speaking about this.

Starting point is 00:12:11 Everyone's goal, there's just bodybuilding, isn't it? Everyone has a bodybuilding goal, there's just none. We were speaking about this recently that, it's one of the, it's like a health marker that, a GP might ask about, for example, have you lost any weight recently? It's like, here's my trend. If you're weighing yourself like, once every four days, like how a hell do you know?

Starting point is 00:12:29 So I've learned a random data point. Anyway, so the problem with weighing yourself normally is you stand on the scales, you step off the scales, you get in the shower, you have a poo and you're like, what are you sitting in? And you can't remember. Withings scales or Wi-Fi scales just take it into an app and graph it. They're under quid, but like... It's such a brilliant feeling to stand on the scales and know that it's just gone.

Starting point is 00:12:49 Yeah, into your... Into your... Into your my fitness partner. I've had mine for five years now, and they're still working. I thought it was broken. They were... They're all enough, right. I was still like...

Starting point is 00:13:00 They are still working. You know the precise weight of your cleaner as well. Yeah. So... So, okay okay so we have just refreshed the scales so they've been there for five years so the reason that it's on there is I've just reupped and bought the same scales again and interestingly five years they haven't haven't changed them. Isn't that just not here? Isn't that fascinating? Wow. Well they mean they've got it right. Yeah so they're exactly the same they measure like you've worked them as well, aren't you? Yeah. You don't feel remissed about that.

Starting point is 00:13:26 That they haven't changed. Yeah. No, it means I bought the right product. They measure like the CO2, my body fat percentage, they measure it. They tell me what the weather's going to be. They graph my weight over a course of a day. But anyway, so Beck has a profile, I have a profile, and there's a few unassigned measures that don't fit, like if it's like 90 kilos, like well, I'll start joining you, maybe you're not, yeah, one of them. There were loads of 80 kilo entries. Always a Tuesday at 1 p.m.

Starting point is 00:13:55 What the fuck is this? Yeah, looking at going like this. And you start to, like, the first thoughts are like panic of like who's getting into a bedroom board. Yeah, cleaning. Unbelievable. So I have a, not only do I have a few entry points. Middleweight cleaner. I actually have a graph of my clean.

Starting point is 00:14:13 She has no idea that I have, you know, and it's not, I feel voyeuristic, but I can't help with it being charged on my phone, you know. Andy, you might pick up on a red flag of the cleanest health before you do this, because of a trend line in her weight. And you might be like, if you notice that you cleanest health before you do this, because of a trend line in her weight. And you might be like, You've been going, if you noticed it, you see or two are clear. But you know, it's actually, so when we had a lecturer a while ago who said that he saw a woman in a bowling alley, he was like, I was bowling with my children.

Starting point is 00:14:40 And I saw a woman with prognatia, which we discussed in the last episode. That. And I saw a woman with prognathia, which we discussed in the last episode, that. And she had some thickened wrists and I thought she looks a bit acromagalic, actually. And I said, hello, I hope I'm sorry to disturb you, but I'm an endocrinologist. And you have a few of the features of something we call acromegaly, which is excess growth hormone production. And she was like, how, this is the first time I've heard of that. And I said, well, I think you should probably go

Starting point is 00:15:10 to see it off for a bit. And she did. And I really, really, really. Did you have acromegaly? Apparently so. And then also just laser. Sadie sat on the bus next to someone and smelled bacterial vaginosis on the woman next to her

Starting point is 00:15:23 and just said, I'm really sorry, but you, like, you have vaginosis on the woman next to her and just said I'm really sorry but you like you know about genosis I think I'd rather someone told me that my vagina smelt than like how did you know it was vaginal of the genital problem signature it's honestly it is such a distinctive smell it like it can you describe it's like someone's buried a fish It like it can you just grab it's like someone's buried a fish in a warm warm climate wrapped in some like cheap squeezy cheese you know the squeezy cheese that you get in like a Cheap toothpaste tube so it hits some of the high notes on smell then yeah It's not a low smell it's not musky no no it's it's a full spectrum smell Oh yeah it digs into your nose and it does not go away. I viewed a flat years ago. You told me about this

Starting point is 00:16:06 Where someone who'd been in it before I'd had this well she so that there was a there was a girl sat in bed with a boyfriend And I went into the room and it's just the air is thick with bacterial vaginous I feel sorry for the the guy like trapped, but he should he should tell her should be like, you know, for his... Maybe he's... For both of us, he's... Maybe he's become like... Maybe he has to do it. Yeah, I know what is it, just a bacterial infection. Yeah. But it's a Stockholm syndrome that people have. Well, he's got like the bacterial version of Scott Stockholm.

Starting point is 00:16:33 So he loves the bacteria. The next 36 hours you'd have like, you know, like little... Vantam whiffs and you're like, oh man, can you... Like, tell him you're a man. It's an hour of bleach and everything, you just can't go that out. What is it? It's just how the Wi-Fi scales, this wouldn't happen. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:16:46 What is Clitoral Megalinegrum? That's large. Black, Clitoris. What causes it? Bruising? Snatch, bruising. Snatch, it's a baby. We're gonna be snatch.

Starting point is 00:16:58 Snatch causes Clitoral Megalinegrum. And if surely that's only if, because it shouldn't, it shouldn't be hitting there, should it? Peabick ball, man. Yeah bone man. You gotta make contact. You're not going to be high in. So does that mean every Olympic weightlifter? Come on. Come on.

Starting point is 00:17:13 Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.

Starting point is 00:17:21 Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Keep it close in. That was too much. Glanzome, Glanzomegulinegrom. Is a black, valent, glanz. I wonder whether that has any Google results. Probably not. But that's not to look.

Starting point is 00:17:34 Search for glanzomegalinegrom. There's no way. I'm sorry. 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, we're not doing it. Glanz Omega, evening Graham. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Starting point is 00:17:52 My Siri just never plays ball with me to be honest. Johnny, I don't think we could have derailed your life hack any further. So, evening Graham. Even Graham? Right. Your up. Why engraved? Right. You're a... Wi-Fi scales.

Starting point is 00:18:07 Wi-Fi scales. Wi-Fi scales. Absolutely. So this was a problem, George had recently. He was like, I've been weighing myself, but I can't, you know, I wanna have a screen free morning and I don't wanna have to go and log it or whatever. And so I'm gonna keep pen and paper next to my scales

Starting point is 00:18:21 and I said, why this? Wi-Fi scales. So they're under quid, but the last you a long time. Well, worthwhile. So mine is U-PAC. Have I, is this familiar? It's just like Toby. Sort of.

Starting point is 00:18:36 So have you ever been on a YouTube video? So it is actually like, I always make such a mistake. It is actually like, it's the one where it gives you it from a different country when it says not available in your country. Yes, we've already done that. That's one. Okay.

Starting point is 00:18:48 If anyone doesn't know what that is, you're watching a YouTube video and it goes like, I can't see it. Just replace the word tube with pack, p-a-k, and it will unlock the video for you. I'm believe that someone's managed to mirror the entire YouTube site URL for URL. I'm so glad they have, because it's so, like how many videos do you try and watch that are unavailable in your country? It must happen to me twice a year. It's not very often.

Starting point is 00:19:11 It happens loads to me, it's so pernixious. It's the same thing you're watching. Okay, so I've got another YouTube related one, which is like Toby. So, well, so you have a, if you're like me, you have a lot of videos that you want to Like a lot of lectures or audiobooks or whatever that you want to add to your Q list your Q

Starting point is 00:19:32 Yeah, and the watch later function on YouTube is pretty rickety So instead just set up a playlist that says it's called lectures or listening Add things to it and then you can get YouTube resumer, which is a Chrome extension that every time you go on a long video, so like sometimes you might have an audio book so it's just a video of five hours long. You go on it and it just jumps to the spot that you were at previously.

Starting point is 00:19:55 Why that's not a native function of YouTube, I have no idea, but... Just with some video. Yeah, just with a lot of my videos. Or if you go to watch something that you've already been watching, it jumps to it. So maybe it is a native function Or if you go to watch something that you've already been watching, it comes to it. So maybe it is an native function that,

Starting point is 00:20:06 in that case, another plugin that you have is blocking that feature. Maybe. It's like, well, you have to take medicine to count the side effect of the medicine. The medicine you've been taking, yeah. So, okay, so I just found out that I've just scumped myself. I think that's, I think for some videos, definitely,

Starting point is 00:20:23 it doesn't do it. For some videos, it seems to. I can't really work on wait. So again, Rickety, you just want to make sure it's good. You know, the the the only person in the room that we need to refer to about this is the only one who can't speak on camera, which is VMD. And second to that, so explain via dance. In terms of dance video, dance, ding, BDD. Right, my one. So I've just been away on holiday quite a bit. So I've been going to new restaurants, different cafes, and things like that. When you go, especially up in some places that have got quite culturally not sensitive,

Starting point is 00:21:01 but food where you think about there's something mint on this menu, but I need to fucking ask. I need to work out very, very carefully what it is. Rome, Boston, where there's a lot of seafood, Santa Monica and Venice in LA. So my life hack is ask the waiter for the most popular dishes, so ask the waiter for suggestions about what to order. When they come over and they bring you, they ask you for your drinks, I've, you've looked perplexed at the menu for a little while. Would you, if you were off, if the waiter said, I can tell you the most popular dish or I can tell you the most, the best dish. Well, I'd ask what's the meaning, what's the meaning?

Starting point is 00:21:38 What's the meaning to him who is a, you know, he, he knows the rest of the dish. Well, I'd, then I've got two, I've got two choices and one of them may meet my tastes, one that may not. One that might have loads of quinoa in it and I'm going to fuck off. I see. Just because there's a lot of things that many people do, which are a bad decision.

Starting point is 00:21:57 Yeah, but not usually with food. That's the same reason why going to a restaurant which has lots of people in it is usually a good idea. Like when you're on holiday, actually, that can be another part of the life hack that when you're looking for somewhere to eat abroad, like, yeah, you can trip advisory, Google, review it, but especially if you're walking down a street, like Rome's perfect example of this is just restaurants and cafes all over the place. Just look for the one that's the busiest. Like, the one that's the busiest

Starting point is 00:22:21 must have something about it, unless it's the first time it's ever been busy and everyone else's but brought this he risked a kit to play. It'll be like the way that Reddit works where things just get this critical mass from an early stage and then everyone just starts them. But yeah, so ask the way for suggestions. I've done this with drinks and food in four cities over the last month and every time that I've asked them for suggestions, it's been fantastic. Yeah, really good. Got a weird steamed octopus pasta in Rome that I would have never ever ordered. Most popular dish in the place had a lobster roll.

Starting point is 00:23:07 So if you can imagine lobster meat that's been completely pulled free of all of the shell, put into a heavily, heavily butted, very soft bap. Like that doesn't sound like a gourmet dish, but was in terms of taste and texture. It's like a soft bun. But massive, yeah. Right. Like that.

Starting point is 00:23:30 I think I know. Really heavily buttered. That was unbelievable as well. Yeah, it's just, it's really because it's just outsourced that decision. outsourced to decision? Yeah. Or if you with, especially if you with people

Starting point is 00:23:41 that are god or old times, or what would you order? Or does everyone else order? What a good drink. And you're just asking the what, like if anyone knows, it's the waiter or the waitress. It probably guarantees that it's fresher as well. If you order something rogue on the menu, that might have been sitting around for a long time or something with a high turnover. Well, then there's no way that the waiter or waitress is going to suggest you something,

Starting point is 00:24:02 which is then going to result in you going, excuse me, this doesn't taste very fresh. They're going to have a degree of existential protectionism. And that's the being told to sell a lot of this special. Fuck, we can't get rid of this three weeks ago as well. I'm always, I always think that that's how specials and restaurants work. I think it is, yeah. It's like, what's going to expire next? Well, why else would they do? What it's quite true. Anyway, Johnny, keep it fresh, isn't it? So I have one that's about

Starting point is 00:24:33 Facebook ads, can I say that? Yeah, sure. So Facebook have just launched a, and this is interesting for everybody, I suppose, there's a new feature where you can press on any post you see on Facebook. You can press on the top right eye. It's something on the top right. Press on that. You press why am I seeing this post or why am I seeing this ad. If it's why am I seeing this ad, you can see. So if you're a business owner or you have a Facebook page, you can see who you're competitive as a target. And you can see who your competitors are targeting and you can see which targeting brackets you fall into. Or if it's a page, you can select all kinds of options with that page or with that person. So it does what you can just live, customize your Facebook,

Starting point is 00:25:15 on Facebook now. You do that, mother. So there you go. That is useful. You can just be out the mercy of it. Because part of the reason that we block our news feeds is because it's stuff on the you don't want. So if you see ads or posts, you think you're great. Well, that's essentially what we're going to have it dictated to you. You can go on a post from a business page that's say of an influencer that you want to hear more of and bump that person's runs. You can do it with organic ant ants now.

Starting point is 00:25:45 I'd like, it's one of my biggest gripes with Instagram, for example, that it only seems to show you posts from the same five people, even if you follow 800. So, whereas if you could choose the proportions that you see people in rather than just like this kind of circular thing, exactly like that. Like the 795 people are obviously just posting

Starting point is 00:26:05 shit content that doesn't, doesn't tip over that. What do you consume, what platforms of channels do you consume, like do you consume Facebook or Instagram? At the moment, just amazing. And here's my biggest, Normally, what would you? Like, will you find yourself spending a long time on Instagram or on YouTube? For me, Instagram is my biggest time sink. Right, but that's where I drive for my most traffic as well, so... To its business, but also... Well, that's the line gets very, very blurred. I think Instagram is easiest to just like...

Starting point is 00:26:39 to go now on. The guy that created... It's like Windows shopping. The guy that created Infinite Feed says it's the biggest regret of his life. Wow, God. Created Infinite Feed. Yeah, the Infinite Scroll Feed.

Starting point is 00:26:51 Like, says it's the biggest... It is dangerous, isn't it? The biggest regret, of course. It's like, because you'll be there forever. This is the end. Is it now under the feed? Well, you can actually get to a point on Instagram and it says,

Starting point is 00:27:03 you're fully caught up now. So on... What do you really get to that point? Well, on Modern Mr. Well, you can actually get to a point on Instagram, it says, you're fully caught up now. So on, I wonder who really gets to that point. Well, on modern wisdom life, it only follows one person and that's me. So I very quickly catch up with all of my own posts when I go on a modern wisdom life. For the people who are tagging modern wisdom life on Instagram, I really appreciate it. But just tag me instead, because I never go on. And I go on to see such and such mentioned you in their story, such and such and such mentioned you in their story. It's always three days ago, I can't see it.

Starting point is 00:27:31 So the very least tag me as well. Thank you. Seth, what are you going to do? Mine's also a Facebook related one, which is have your birthday notifications on for Facebook people. Where do you find them? You can either set it to link with your calendar or just have it on the right side of your thing.

Starting point is 00:27:52 Even if you're blocking your calendar. That's brutal if you've got like 5,000 friends. Yeah, it is. So this is the tip which is use people's birthdays as a chance to review whether you want them in your life or not. It's a fantastic tip. So when they come up, you're just like, ah, actually, fuck off.

Starting point is 00:28:07 Yeah. That's fantastic. Because I think at birthday is a polarizing thing, because it instantly is like, right, I need to make the decision. Do is this someone that I need to go and say happy birthday to? In which case they are good and important in your life? Do you not really care in which case?

Starting point is 00:28:23 Should you delete them? Or are they someone that actively, if you weren't, say happy birthday to them, they would think it was weird. And so a lot of people fall in there. There's some people in there who I need to have on my Facebook, but I also don't want to wish happy birthday to you. The sum that fall in that kind of thing. They need to have on your Facebook.

Starting point is 00:28:37 Yeah, just okay. Amanda. So I think the hack ahead of that is just don't be precious on your Facebook. I think people just need to stop being so precious about the social media. As in, like, just have as many friends as like, I just don't be precious about your face, but I think people just need to stop being so precious about their social media. I just have as many friends as someone aren't you. Don't people who think they're in Instagram or their social media friends or whatever is an extension of real life and it can be if you choose it to be, but it can also just not be. Well, we're talking about this

Starting point is 00:28:57 the other day with kids and Snapchat. You know where like it is, yeah, what is you were saying about the like the flames tree. Yeah. So I unfollowed everyone on Twitter. Everybody about a year ago and then have very, very slowly I'm on I follow 60 people now. And I have to say that my life, especially on Twitter, which is high volume stuff is bliss. Life's absolutely bliss. I should don't use to it, sir. But my point is that if you were to have that degree of right curatedness with all of your social needs. So the other day, Becca said,

Starting point is 00:29:34 oh, you know, such and such. I'm like, what? Friendly, no, I don't. She was like, oh, it's his person on Facebook who you meet your friend with. I'm like, don't know. But I said to her, I know who has more friends on Facebook. Chris.

Starting point is 00:29:48 And you have, I don't know what, a crazy number. Five accounts on each one of them's grown up, 5,000. So I have 1,500 friends, but I maybe speak to 20 of them. There was a period when it was a useful resource, but I think for me now it doesn't really work as well. I can't scale individual connections with people like that. But it is still a powerful resource. Like when we're doing recruitment and stuff for freshers, we're still telling the boys like nothing beats a big Facebook for the kind of work that we do.

Starting point is 00:30:18 Personal face-to-face networking for a geographically localized event. It went like big Facebook account. We message people directly. Exactly. So, I'm going to do one and this is one actually which is from... I'm not messed up. Oh, no, sorry. Sorry.

Starting point is 00:30:34 So, you worry. This is one which is actually from VMD. So, you sent me this the other week. VMD. Which is messenger.com. So, I didn't know that messenger.com is Facebook messenger without Facebook. So I don't need to be on Facebook getting distracted by getting tagged in notifications and invites to events and pages and just general stuff or scrolling music or playing

Starting point is 00:31:01 videos and stuff like that. But messenger.com allows me to, in the same way that WhatsApp web works for that. So I now have a tab of all of my stuff, which is I can just go on and check during a Pomodoro break or whatever it might be, WhatsApp web and Messenger.com, don't get distracted by notifications, still get all the functionality and a better view,

Starting point is 00:31:21 as opposed to just that. It's even bigger than when you view it on full Facebook. It's even better than that. So messenger.com. You can find it from inside Facebook, I think, if you just press Messages, it takes you to messenger.com, I think. I don't think it does. I think it still keeps the key to your messenger.

Starting point is 00:31:38 I think it's the frame of Facebook. Do you use WhatsApp web, Inchron, or do you have the Mac app? No, I use it in Chrome. Right. Do you prefer to do that? Yes. Because the apps a bit hit misamise until they're exactly why I don't use it. So it's firstly the apps buggy, and secondly, turning off notifications for it is more

Starting point is 00:31:57 difficult. Like, it's just, it's more entrenched in my system. Cool turkey. Kills it. Just because no. Yeah, so do you need, because it might not say like you need your phone, like the Scandal QACO,

Starting point is 00:32:10 does what type web do that as well? On the ones. Only one server. But right. There is a native version of messenger.com called Franz F.R.A. and Z or goofy. I wish it was like an open-source. When you say native, native Mac. I could say it's a key.

Starting point is 00:32:25 Curator. Is that? No, no, so is it. So is it friends that does all of the different? Yeah. Okay, so there is a messenger app. I think there's one called goofy and one called something else. Friends are something different, which just aggregates all of your messaging stuff.

Starting point is 00:32:42 Yeah. I mean, Facebook are going to do that themselves anyway. Soon, they're going to do that themselves anyway soon. They're going to integrate WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram. That would be fantastic. Nothing would make me happier. But then having to switch between them. I'll still be on separate. I bet you would still be on separate. But just on one mega app. Well, I don't think they'll make the match. I bet it's about for the developers there having an anaphylaxis because of the

Starting point is 00:33:05 I bet it's about for the developers there having an anaphylaxis because of the just the enormity of the... Yeah, there'll be a bit of difficulty in combining it, but then the total screen time will go down. Total screen time will definitely go down because app switching itself just... They need inventory. They need space. Yeah, for people to use... I mean, the main reason that Messenger.com and the flume, using flume for Instagram and removing all other tabs except for messages and like your own profile and post maybe.

Starting point is 00:33:33 And the reason WhatsApp web works is you want to be on receive as little as possible. You want to be on send and only send because you only want to send when you want to send but you're on receive at the behest of everyone else. Remember back in the day when we were like our life hack turn off all notifications, I cannot imagine life with notification. There are some life hacks that just are so requisite, aren't they? Well, they feel primitive to us now. When I look back at one and one and one and one and two and I'm like, slow cooker. Just to set it aside.

Starting point is 00:34:01 So it's just someone who has notifications on the phone. Savage. You just think you set it next to someone. Part of my notifications on the phone. Savage. You just think you are such a basic person. Just your life, you're just being dragged around by it. Like, dragged. It's terrible. And group chat. I want your attention, excuse me.

Starting point is 00:34:14 Excuse me. And then you watch them pick up their phone. You know, like, May what you do? What were you going to do that before that happened or not? No, no, no, because someone's message now. No, someone hasn't messaged you. Someone's messaged a bunch of other people in a fucking group.

Starting point is 00:34:27 It was just something because I remember you and I having this conversation and I said, I don't want to turn it off because I need to check it at some point. And you said, well, you have to have a cadence for checking, but that's either something you decide or someone else decides. It's so horrible. I just said, it's real, man. Right, Blobson. Blobson. he's a... God, we're going for it. It's me. I'm trying to retake, because I've been to YouTube related ones now. Oh, my God. And a Facebook one.

Starting point is 00:34:53 And a Facebook one. Sam Harris, meditation app. We talked about that. Yeah, sure. Have we talked about it? Briefly, but not in as full that as you, someone who's completely a fair bit of the course. Okay, so I typically, so I've just hit like 110 days, I think, I've meditating all right, and... Good streak. I've been... Thanks.

Starting point is 00:35:21 Oh, I paused a moment there to see if I get any congratulations. Sorry I was busy noticing. So I've been doing a lot I pause a moment there to see if I get any congratulations. Sorry I was busy noticing you. So I've been doing a lot of that unguided, but I think for a guided experience, the Sam Harris thing is the best that I've found. And there's a few reasons. One is it's progressive throughout the 50 days or whatever. So he introduces new concepts.

Starting point is 00:35:42 Aggressively less. Or progressively less in terms of the amount he speaks, but progressive also in terms of like, so he'll start off with folks on the breath and then delivery takes that attention and expands it to awareness. And then he starts talking about notice, who is noticing, or what is noticing,

Starting point is 00:36:00 turning the attention on the self, talks about like implanting, or like trying to alter the frame of mind that you're really in all these sorts of things and it's only arms now they're legs. It's not like headspace and it's only 10 minutes so I will typically do that to begin a session and then do it unguarded after that So it is you into the Mm-hmm into the zoom it is paid that's a clever way to do it to hybridize it without being reliant on well the first 10 minutes is always rocky

Starting point is 00:36:32 Well, I think the risk is the risk with mediter- or the risk with anything is practicing Doing a shit practice Because then you're just entrenching in the right direction. So if you sit and do 30 minutes of meditation, never do technique work tired. Well, so I suppose, like if meditation is the formal practice for an awareness or a mindfulness and you do it when you sit down and think and just get lost in thought and then the... It goes out to say, well, what have I done there? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:37:09 So I think, sewing off with 10 minutes of like, this is the correct. Or this is a sort of a way to focus your mind, then allowing it to go off. I think that for me at least has been more productive. So that app is fantastic, in my opinion. And he is, I think that for me at least has been more productive. So that app is fantastic in my opinion. And he is, I think someone said, he would you want to listen to him for meditation advice? He'd be up there. Yeah, he's, I think he's a definitely reputable meditation authority, isn't he? And he's not, he's not, he's not sensational about it. He's just like, well, I've looked at the research. So I've been searching, sorry, a little bit quite during that, I've looked at the research. So I've been searching, so it's going to be quite during that, I've been searching through my phone

Starting point is 00:37:46 and I've found the code modern wisdom all in capital letters will give anyone who's listening one month free trial of full access to waking up. Zinger. So I spoke to Carl from support, at the beginning of this year, and he said that we can send you a promo trial that will offer

Starting point is 00:38:05 your listeners a free one month trial, modern wisdom. That's awesome. There's also, so there's meditations, there's 50 days of meditation and then lessons, lessons as well, which are just sort of monologues on very task-effective life. And it becomes a daily session that is different every day. Brilliant. So I'm sorry, it's our custom. I'm in that interest. I like the idea of the waking up thing. I am beginning to be moved round to your way of thinking safe to do with guided versus unguided.

Starting point is 00:38:43 I think my initial problem with unguided sessions was it was embedding bad habits like what I'm doing the SIRCTS, this is this and the other, but since I got a meditation coach and have been following a more structured program, because I don't know how much what you like about guided meditation is the fact it's guided, the fact it's structured. So what I like about sound stuff is the fact it's guided, the fact it's structured. So what I like about sound stuff is the the imps someone so I think the parts of meditation that I start to find difficult are the searching for the self parts. So moving from breath into awareness and then from awareness into where is the like the seat of attention. I find that quite difficult to get my head around. Whereas the way sound does it is he starts off like Billy Basics and then gently introduces those concepts.

Starting point is 00:39:29 Are you started the seat of your pants and then you fix my, by the seat of your pants? To the seat of attention. I see. It's probably so it's because it's progressive. That's what I like about it. Whereas head space is just hanging. Yeah, to the left. So mine is, if you're? Yeah, to the left. So, mine is... If you are a horus, I'm sorry. Ham, Cyrus, if you are looking on YouTube at my head,

Starting point is 00:39:53 is this like Toby? No, it's similar to Toby. So if you're looking at my head, you might be thinking, oh, what a wonderful haircut. I wish I could get a haircut like that. Well, let me tell you, I had this haircut in my own kitchen and that was thanks to Chris recommending a fantastic haircut called Zara

Starting point is 00:40:14 who comes to your house and cuts your hair. Saves you having to wait in the barber shop but you're looking at me because we've done this before. Yeah. Okay, next one. Get your haircut at home was a life hack you adopted from me talking about it on a past life hack. On a life hack?

Starting point is 00:40:30 Fine. Well, that's the cycle of life hacks. I don't think. I've got a very good haircut. No, that's really hurtful. I get my haircut once I've reved six weeks. Okay. And the Chris is going across.

Starting point is 00:40:42 And the experience of going to lifehack is awesome. No, I just know what you're going to say you're wrong Well, you don't know that okay, so I like going to the hairdressers because it's I get to It's the same feeling for me as like being on a plane You know it's it's time out and I get my head massage and a massage chair I get a head massage and a massage chair. So you get a head massage chair? I get sparkling water and drinks. No, I like doing use of, I actually like paying more and being more inconvenienced as well. So yes, is it inconvenienced? That's the question.

Starting point is 00:41:15 So, did you have to drive to the yes and answers? Yes, how long was the journey? Time and money. Ten minutes. Both ways, 20 minutes. How long did it take to get in and do the small talk? Ten minutes. 30 minutes.

Starting point is 00:41:32 30 minutes. Do you want me to just give you the total time? I'll give you the total time. I don't care. I'm talking about total wasted time because we can't speed up the hair cut that much. Okay. But you've had to get up, leave, account for traffic, deal with traffic, get there,

Starting point is 00:41:47 small talk with a bunch of women that you have nothing in common with, drink, er, true. You're wrong. How much you pay? 30 quid. Fuck me. You get two haircuts. So two haircuts in half the time. So these are arguments. Over the times the value. They're only valid if one, you are managing your finances to the extent that you know exactly where every third quit is going. And two, not really, it just means that you have a preference for spending less money compared to the most. But you can't say that don't spend money on that. That's gamblers fallacy. No, it isn't. Is it? It's like if you need to know down to a degree of fidelity that is 30 quid.

Starting point is 00:42:25 But it's a 30 quid spent every six weeks. Okay. So how many people have that type of a hole on the finances that they say, oh well, my 30 quid, that you're not my own. But it's not as if you're getting anything for the extra 30 quid. Like, but I am, I'm getting an experience.

Starting point is 00:42:37 So, okay, well, if you enjoy the experience again, and again, and again. Well, so what I love about Zara is that she tolerates my weirdness and I just sit and again, and again. Well, so what I love about Zora is that she tolerates my weirdness and I just sit and work whilst I'm at it. So the other aspect to that, what I was saying was, if your time is that well managed at 90 minutes, I say every six weeks, cannot be possibly wasted. And then again, so I just don't,

Starting point is 00:43:04 I'm still wasting time on money. No, I'm not making up. Because it's a small amount of time on money. It's an allocation of those things. So I get an enjoyable experience. You enjoy the experience. You enjoy the driving. You enjoy the driving there and back.

Starting point is 00:43:18 It's fine. But I enjoy thinking about marginal games and refining things. Isn't there also a sense of smugness that you get just from having your hair cut without having to go anywhere? I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving.

Starting point is 00:43:29 I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving.

Starting point is 00:43:37 I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I'm joy-giving. I sometimes get my haircut in a place as well. Do you get a hair massage? No. Do you have a spark in water?

Starting point is 00:43:45 But I remember there was a place that did give you a head massage in Edinburgh and I used to work with a Scottish guy and I came back and I was like, oh, I just hair cut in that place. And he was like, oh, I don't know what that place is. Instant, see me, that's all I'm seeing. I'm like, yeah, I'm not. Just go because there's a 10 pounds haircut.

Starting point is 00:44:03 But I like it because I think it's a bit of being nice to yourself, like it's a I'm going to go in again. So for me, here's my argument for that. You're spending 15 quid extra every six weeks. Save that up, go for it. Go for massage. You are making protein pancakes here. Well, that is one of the best references that I've made. Yeah, you are you are making protein pancakes here Well

Starting point is 00:44:25 That is one of the best references that I've made that you're assuming that I want a I like a massage as much as I do a haircut But you you're saying I like a haircut because it's time to myself and so and it's a pampering But ultimately like you can't feel your hair being cut I agree and like you're just you start in a silly little coat. And you're paying the killer for me is the overhead that you're paying that you can't get around, the overhead in terms of 15 minutes or 10 minutes there, 10 minutes bullshit at the beginning, 10 minutes at the end. Like that's half an hour.

Starting point is 00:45:00 So every 12 weeks you have wasted the exact amount of time and the exact amount of money that I can get you an at-home massage for. This is such a good advert for Zara, I think. And Sabina? And Sabina's come round to the massage, or you? Well, you could get Zara to do the massage. Sabina's do the hair cut. See if they both make an absolute terrible job of it. Yes, they will.

Starting point is 00:45:21 And although Sabina wants to be a surgeon and true. So maybe she's got steady hands. This is the same issue that I had with Alfred, which is, so if let's say over 12 weeks, we all get the same amount done. But you two, for example, the solution for the suggestive saving the extra and putting it into an actual pampering. Surely that. But that's assuming that that's's, so both of what you are saying is, you are wasting time that should be saved, time and money that should be saved and put us on code.

Starting point is 00:45:49 Could be saved precisely. But my point is that I don't think anybody does that. I think so. Because we're so wasteful with our time and money anyway. I'm saying, I don't cost fallacy. I'm saying that I don't think anybody has a tight enough control over their time or money to say, I'm not going to win this argument.

Starting point is 00:46:05 Because you do are entrenched. Go and try. So yesterday I was so precious about time, so I had a lot to do. And 90 minutes out of my day would have been killer. So in a situation where you're revising for finals for Manson, that fair enough, but in general, I don't think there's anyone who hasn't. So in general, marginal games don't matter, but that's the exact reason why marginal games matter. I haven't even got to my life hat because I've just, this is a good home. So here's exactly where you money's going. Okay, so here's another one for that one there.

Starting point is 00:46:42 Darren, my business partner has adopted the Pomodoro technique and was singing the praises in a group chat with our other two directors, saying it changed his life, then he said, and being dramatic, but it's shaved 30 minutes off my Monday tasks over a 40-year career that's 43 full 24-hour days or 130 working days that I've saved.

Starting point is 00:47:05 If he's not using his time down with the fidelity of 30 minutes and he's being wasteful in the week, why should he be bothered about that? So Johnny did a podcast recently called The Death by Thousand Cuts, which is he's now being killed by. I honestly think we're arguing about different things. Okay. I think so because I know you are a very logical person and this seems really at odds with,

Starting point is 00:47:31 so I think we're probably not understanding your point of view. What we're going to do is we're going to go away and we're going to discuss it and then in life hacks 109. We'll all be converts to the top of the year. We'll be in the same scenario. We'll all be getting ahead of us. We'll be getting ahead of us. We'll be in a place. We'll be getting ahead of us. We'll all be converts to the same scenario. We'll all be getting a haircut in a place where YouTube's only a wrong haircut at home because you're wrong. Well, no, because we'll be getting a haircut in an expensive time. I'll be paying twice as much to wait for twice

Starting point is 00:47:55 as long. Do you think that everything in your life is done purely for the purposes of optimizing time money? No, some of it's for enjoyment as well because I don't I'm never going to enjoy a journey to this. That's used CrossFit as an example. Yeah. Is that the best use of time and money for achieving an album? And that was there was a three. I'm enjoying. Okay. Okay. I'm enjoying. Roughly here and it's all the best. Actually, I had an enjoyment, but Chris said that enjoying his love. Because the goal is absent, strength or whatever. Right. So is that the best use of those things?

Starting point is 00:48:28 The best I've found compared to other things that I've tried. So it takes less time and less money than other versions. Yeah, fitness. So I think you and I both know. What about not training though? Because I've cost no time and no money. Well, that won't issue the outcome. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:48:44 OK. So to pause that discussion, thanks to Chris being a kind of reference for me as well. Because obviously this is someone who is coming to your house, doesn't know you, you could be a predator. And so she called Chris because that was through the reference, you know, hi, I've got a new inquiry from someone called Yusuf, is he a weirdo? Chris's like, yes, but not too, but not that kind of weirdo. I don't want to, I don't want to spoil this story, Yusuf, but this literally was told on the last life hacks. The reason that you feel like it's such a funny story, it feels very deja vu funny story is because it was on the trailer for the last life. Was it? Right. Okay. Let's move on to your life hack. So my life hack this might be a repeat as well. Keep dental floss in the shower. Yes. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:49:35 Okay. Right. Hang on. I think that's how 100% of them have been repeats. You know why this is it? You haven't formatted your life hack. Yeah. You need your life hack for your life hacks. Okay. When you finish in the shower, this is a little repeat, isn't it? I don't know. I don't know. Just give yourself a head, a top to toe flick. Oh, okay, scraping. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:49:56 I do with scraping. Just with scraping. You got a lot of you. So Johnny's going to hate this, but I think it minimizes your towel. I've just instantiated this like since I think it minimizes your towel. It's a towel, he left. I did this in a sense. I've just instantiated this like since I was a kid. There we go. So yeah, it's just like a natural, it's like I read somewhere,

Starting point is 00:50:13 someone was like, oh, a life hack, spread your bum cheeks when he said to have a poo. You're like, well, who sits with the bum cheeks fresh as a get this before? We've started about this before. Yeah, he's been like, these are like natural. So you flicking, you flicking so that you spent less time with the towel. And so that your towel doesn't get as wet

Starting point is 00:50:28 Okay, because I don't think a towel really dries. I think a towel just stays takes wet. Yeah, I agree Right, I'm gonna have to sort out the ones you really are right. So I'm going to use one which is for any potential Landlords or landlady's out there or anyone else who wants to work out whether someone is taking care of a room or a property. Cameras, it's a bit of a blunt solution to this. Probably illegal as well. I think it is. So I've recently purchased a new property,

Starting point is 00:51:05 which has some tenants in it. As a gift to the tenants, I've bought them a plant. And come on. I've bought them a plant and the point of the plant is if I go into the house and the plant's been tended to, it's been watered, probably pretty good indicator that nothing else in the house needs looking at. And I've taken this idea from... Not how they watch the podcast. They don't watch it. Oh, actually shit no, they do and they all know who you are. Uh, it's fine.

Starting point is 00:51:39 I'll block their IP. I'll block their IP. Okay. So they're all medical students anyway. So I'm sure they'll be sweet. But the idea was taken from it's either Foo Fighters or Aerosmith and their sound manager put into their hospitality rider. So before a big artist plays a show, they'll have a big tech rider and it'll be this is the kind of amp system we need, this is how many guitar racks we need,

Starting point is 00:52:05 this is the height of the step at the front for the lead singer to step on and the lighting system and all this sort of stuff. And there'll be what's referred to as a hospitality rider, which is food, drink, we need these many kiwis and some juice and blah, blah, blah. And this all gets sent over to the promoter of the event organizer. And in deep in the depths of the hospitality rider, one of the sound tech heads had put in that they wanted a bowl of M&Ms with no blue ones in. Oh yeah. And that was being used as a canary in the coal mine for if if they've got no blue eminems in the bowl, they've definitely got the fucking lights and the sound and everything else. So he would

Starting point is 00:52:50 judge with less scrutiny, other things that are part of the rider, wherever, whereas if they have got the blue ones in, they think. The question is, in your situation, so if the canary dies, you don't go in the columnite. But if your plant dies, what do you do? You look around the remainder of the house with no scrutiny. Are they remembering to turn the extractor fan on when they go into the bathroom? Are they making sure that they're not leaving water in the bath? So, like, just other things, normal day- normal day to day housey things so ideally you get ten

Starting point is 00:53:26 that like hate nature and hate plants because then you know that if they're managing the plant then everything else is good. The risk is that you have tenets you love plants but couldn't give a shit about dampen the bathroom. Good point. Good point. What do you have? Dead hamster.

Starting point is 00:53:43 Just a hamster or like a fish. Fish neck. I feed the fish. The plant as a non-sentient being to me feels like a safe event. Johnny. If he says, get my hand, I'll cut it. He's It's been convinced. So I was going to say go what? Okay, but I don't have any use it enough. Let's, let's hold off on that one because I want to hear a proper experience and you haven't, I don't think you've used it for long enough. Okay. Okay.

Starting point is 00:54:17 Okay. This is a bit weak, but I'm going to go for it. Go to your headwriters. No. No. The new range of Fitbit. Excellent. What have you got on?

Starting point is 00:54:28 You're showcasing it now. So this is a Inspire HR, I believe it's called. So the Fitbit that I used to have in resources, the Fitbit, the older range of Fitbits, at least as far as I'm aware, the only one that was waterproof was the cheapest one, which had no screen, it was just, was the one I used to have, yeah, to be the remember, band. Band with a little bit in it, fit fit, it was fit, in it, and that was waterproof and you could swim in it and stuff like that, and all the other ones are more advanced ones, it tracked your heart rate and stuff like that,

Starting point is 00:55:02 weren't waterproof, which is a fuck on, because every time you have to have a shower you take it off and then you forget to put it back on again, etc. I was walking the dog and something happened that flipped the fit bit over and the bit came out and this was like I think maybe even a day later I just went like that to have the window lights. I was like that's weird, broke, squeeze it. How did you know that it was when you were walking the dog? Well, that's the only thing that I can track back the weather. So I think the lead flipped over, because you don't, I don't know, my life isn't violent at all.

Starting point is 00:55:40 There's not many things that I could have lost it. So as I remember, I thought, say, I'm going to have to buy a new one. Same price as the, so it's 80 quid, which is the same price as the old cheap one. You call them, say, I just want the bit. Just the bit. Didn't sell anymore. This is now the same. You got the bit on the fit.

Starting point is 00:55:57 So you can't go screenless anymore. Don't think so. I think they do a pebble type thing. Maybe they've got screenless. So talking through what it called again, what to do? Fitbit Inspire HR. So there is an Inspire which is slightly cheaper, but the Inspire HR does full shines a green light in your

Starting point is 00:56:13 wrist and the green light shines back. And it mostly heart rate. So I've got like, better sleep data, better calorie data, better content heart rate tracking. Similar to it with that. But it stays on my wrist. The only reason that you can't get you with bandstone is because you were wearing it too slack

Starting point is 00:56:28 and had the wrong bander. It really pains me that you weren't able to... It wasn't able to have enough time to win you over because of something that was so basic. And obviously, the fact that it is so fundamental is exactly the problem, but the fact that you weren't able to, like it didn't have time for when you were...

Starting point is 00:56:50 The part that I don't understand about them is why, so that they use the same technology as Fitbit, I think. Well, they use the visual, yeah, but it's different fidelity. But so it doesn't, there's not a need for the strap that we pass, there's no reason It couldn't be this strap for example, right? I don't know is it always there it's comfort right Because it so I tried different tightnesses

Starting point is 00:57:16 Your strap that strap in one strap that you should have had as the one that you can't get in the UK Or couldn't get what you can know it's like the fighting against me So I wanted it to work. Will Armed, who is the CEO, who didn't reply to me about my podcasting by either. So, I can just tell you what's crazy about weep actually. They were just on Jerogan. They've seen about funding they've had. A lot of funding.

Starting point is 00:57:40 They're just hitting the market right. So my contract with Woop is up and I'm not sure about whether or not I'm going to renew. Wow, so that's the only reason I'm not expected. The only reason I'm not sure about whether or not I'm going to renew. Because we're laughing, isn't it? Well, we're laughing. Yeah, we're laughing. Come on, what's yours? No, no, I'm sorry, I just want to hear more about that. I thought you were fully sold. I do really like them, but I liked it a lot more when I was getting it off the back of

Starting point is 00:58:16 referrals. I just don't know if it's worth 30,000 to me. Do you do anything with the data? Like if it said, if it came up when I was flashing red, like Chris Foxx, I'm bad. So it doesn't, it doesn't inform my training, which is one thing I think a lot of us are too pig headed to just, I've got a training plan, I'm sticking to my training. Yeah. If it's a rest day, and even on green, I'm going to rest. And if it's, um, yeah, what determines whether I train or not is, can I fit

Starting point is 00:58:41 it in the week? Like one thing, one thing that I will miss will be the sleep tracking because when I have phone out of room that means no sleep cycle which means that I need to have a wearable of some kind to track my sleep. I think the sleep tracking on them, for me when it's taking my rest all night, we're better than anything else I've tried here. And obviously the HRB, like pretty hard to get HRB data in past. But the question is like, as you say, if it says rest and you don't, then well, even like, is it accurate enough to predict like all of the stuff going on with you physically

Starting point is 00:59:18 to say, this is, I'm, my data is more important than your training plan and what you feel and all those things. And you should rest today. It's just a lot of faith in it. It's just to inform, isn't it? Are you gonna get anything in third? Again, I'm considering that, but I don't want anything, I don't like the idea of anything that's a smart watch.

Starting point is 00:59:35 Like, I don't want something that displays text, so when I watch it out of the question, I refuse to, like, it's the battery life on them as well. Davey, Charlie. I'm sure you have to charge daily. Yeah. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's like it's the battery life on them as well. Daily charge. Watch that you have to charge daily. Yeah, it's seen in the pictures. So one of the guys that I was away

Starting point is 00:59:50 and stagged to with recently was wearing a Garmin, very good Garmin. And he uses his, for everything, for swimming. And he said, I was like, I don't want anything that displays stuff and he's like, oh, you can just turn off the link up for like phone calls and text messages and stuff, which is quite good. And I could use that because I'm swimming twice a week. I could use that and it'll, it works out your stroke rate, your cadence, your length time, your speed, everything for swimming, which is pretty attractive. And then it links

Starting point is 01:00:20 up with a heart belt, which will track your heart rate. And I'm just gonna be more accurate. Pisses all over the day. Yeah, I've got my zone, MZ3, which does the job as well. But that's, again, that's another piece of tech. And there's something, this quantified self movement is kind of cool, but it just screams Virgin to me as well. Like, does,

Starting point is 01:00:43 Did you see the poster part of the other day about like the 22 year, was it the 22 year old Jim Goa Virgin? No. Have a look at it, it's very, very much on that. It's like coming in and doing 126.5 kilo deadlifts. Oh yeah, I think it's that sort of team today. Yeah, again, that's another like powerlifting, like thing.

Starting point is 01:01:04 Very much. Like I'm not gonna over train. And again, that's another powerlifting thing for me. I'm not going to over train. I'm going to have these huge rests. I'm not going to, even you as someone who I consider to be as open-minded as you can get for a powerlifter, since the beginning of the year refused to do cardio with me, because you were worried it was going to defeat your gains. And you're the most secular of the powerlifters. Of the powerlifters.

Starting point is 01:01:31 Yeah, it hasn't got a beard, hasn't shaved his head, doesn't wear like that in the fashion. Well, it's like how the music tastes that, I know you and I have, I think, I know you do to the, you dabble, and score. I try, but I just... Yeah, but like, neither of us are dressed at rock and slack, or...

Starting point is 01:01:47 I feel the same way about, I think, any community really, powder things really bad where people literally have all the gear and no idea, like they've been training for six months, but they've got the best shoes and the best VD. You just have to go waste for five years and train really hard. In a clenic considered.

Starting point is 01:02:04 And like, yeah, a teacher. Like without a belt and a peck deck. Three years of peck deck and then you're allowed. So this is Johnny's like theory that everyone should have a mandatory three years of peck deck and like leg press. Like leg press. Because even like before you started doing that split.

Starting point is 01:02:21 So I bet those people you see in CrossFit who you think like you just need to do peck and like press for a year then come back and you'll get a lot more out of CrossFit when you come back you don't have to pack that because it's just like you're right of passage. Done Bell Road. So lateral raises. Yep. You took the right get excited are face pulls. Get your barbell row up to 160. You see your mouth, you see your mouth is very silky today. Yeah, you're very soft. My view is normally pretty good these days. I think stopping squatting,

Starting point is 01:02:49 then, still being squeege. So, let me know again if this is a repeat, I need to sort my form, I think, up. This is a dental one, and this comes from a friend of mine called Harpinder, who is a dentist, and he said, if you're going to eat sweet foods, eat them all in one go.

Starting point is 01:03:06 So do not forgot to say, have like slow like don't graze on sweets. If you're going to eat sweet, go bake or go home and do it in one block because he said the the window of time that sugar causes an insult to the teeth is over 20 minutes. And so if you eat more sugar within that 20 minute period, there's no extra damage, but you will cause more damage by like, if you had like a skittle every 20 minutes, then you've completely... That's an interesting thing. I get it from a dental perspective, but from a satiating perspective, perspective, it's completely contrary. Yeah. Unlike a realism, like living your life. It is. Um, but on that note, and this is not good for you, but, um, a chocolate bar that I've rediscovered recently,

Starting point is 01:03:54 that is really the unsung hero of all chocolate bars, the picnic bar. Absolutely beautiful. Like, however, um, what's what's it could take on? So it's, I think it's, what's a container on it? It's, I think it's, is Nougat raisins and peanuts? This would kill you. Yeah, it's some kind of nut. In a kind of rocky texture, unfortunately,

Starting point is 01:04:16 reviews on Astor are very low because they've made them smaller and not, and kept the price the same, which is a bit naughty, but I guess if you're interested in lower calories, then it's kind of good, but you could just eat less of a bigger bar. So yeah, who eats part of one bar? Well, that's the problem, isn't it?

Starting point is 01:04:33 Like the portion control, so much of the obesity problem is bigger portions, and then people feeling, because we're so puritan, we're obliged to finish our plate. And that's not. There's nothing in American. I don't know why I was in America, you cheesecake factory, the fucking size. That's the question, isn't it? The starters were too big to finish. Yeah. The starters. The starters were too big to finish. They had a, they had a salad, a salad that was 2,100 cals.

Starting point is 01:05:04 A salad that was 2,100 cows. It's a single serving. Single serving, one person, main, salad. I mean, even if it's not a main, that is exceeding daily calories for most people. 2,100 cows. Unreal. But, on the flip side of that, it was delicious. Well, yeah, probably was. I didn't order it. And on the flip side of that, they have every single food, every single meal has the cows listed next to it, including drinks. And they have a menu bigger than some restaurants in

Starting point is 01:05:35 the UK's menus have light bites that are like under 600 cows. And there's a shitloads of stuff in there that was really nice. 600 calories are still a pretty big meal. It's a main meal. Yeah, I mean, that's for a light bite. Would you roll the heart? No, no, no, so they called it light bites, but it was just a main that happens to be over six calories. So it was a full meal, like it was a salmon on rice with this and this and this or whatever.

Starting point is 01:06:00 So I'd roll the heart of that. I'd roll the heart of all the calories laid out, even if every meal is 2,000 plus calories, because then you can just eat half of it. But I suppose that predicate that you are able to take a portion and not eat all of it. Well, I mean, I think that's quite difficult. But yeah, the problem that I see with Americans

Starting point is 01:06:19 or America's food crisis in general is that people are making the wrong choices. They are better informed in America by a real margin than we are over here for what is going in them out. And they're changing stuff now so they can't have in happy meals for kids, they have to give them fruit and a juice. They can't give them fries and a soft drink unless, unless specifically requested. Did you get a soft drink in any of these like fast food places? So I was, I, when I go to America, I make a point of trying all of the different and

Starting point is 01:06:56 sweet zero calorie teas. Okay. They're very good. Arizona ones. Just everything. There's shit loads of different teas. I really like them They are good. Yeah, I see with sweetener in right gets get a couple of pockets of splendor makes that and

Starting point is 01:07:12 Because I was just saying because of like the sizes of the You know like the paper well the gallons like half gallons of fucking it's mental. Yeah, like they're small is easily our Like anyone who's seen supersize me like the like the, yeah, the super size one is genuinely like, you know, bucket. Um, right. What do we got? That, that, that, uh, okay. So anyone who goes to the gym, this is the most optimal way to mix your post workout shake. So most people, and I see this all the time in the gym, people going out, and they may

Starting point is 01:07:49 either have what's it called where it's got the great in what's that particular style of shaker called the grata. Anyway, so there's two different, two main types. One is where you've got a little whisk ball, and the other one is where you have a great that goes across the top of the shaker. For either of those shakers, this strategy is the same, although for the whisk, it's slightly more effective. You don't want to be doing a linearly reciprocal motion. This has to be a hyperbolic parabola. Well, not far off. I just, I think I, you want to twist, you want to go in rotary, you want to be going side to side, and the way that I know that's true is the original use of the whisk in the protein shaker,

Starting point is 01:08:33 that whisk was actually made for whisking eggs, so that whole product wasn't built for protein. Yes, the little ball whisky ball into a meringue was, it was, it, it was, no, so you'd have a level, a much, a much smaller bottle that had the whisking and on the original trademark for that product, the demonstration is like this. So side to side is much more effective and it's just, it related question, when you, so imagine, imagine the picture you're seeing, you're about a shaker, Brody and shaker, what'd you do with your index finger? On top. Always on top. Oh, I've made that.

Starting point is 01:09:10 I fucking tell you. So there was a scene in uni, me, flat mate, audio broadcast, we're an audio broadcast, three people. There's three people that have learned this lesson, the hard way, and that's just instinctive now. Well, give a mixed approach in shape. So you put two scoops in, fill those quarters.

Starting point is 01:09:28 We screwed the lid on. And then just went like this. And as you did that, me and the flat maker, I'm like, whoa! And he shakes it, and obviously nothing happens. But it's crazy, they're like the visceral reaction. Oh, I'm going to, your finger on my leg. You've necessarily got someone who has strong arm flexors

Starting point is 01:09:49 and is like doing that violently, and it's like... But in like the more modern ones, with the whisk ball, the lid does shut down pretty firmly. Yeah, but I give it a proper bite. So, I impress it, and it almost clicks in. So, have you transitioned to Steel Shakers yet? No, I've got. So I keep hearing about this though.

Starting point is 01:10:08 Thank you to the protein works for giving Johnny his new Steel Shaker, which I will give him once we finish this podcast. Fantastic. But it's anyone who's out there, is listening, and the whole thing. I don't know if it's the gold one or the silver one. Orange, matte orange.

Starting point is 01:10:21 Oh, that's fantastic. Metal one. Metal matte orange. That's a's fantastic. That's nice. Metal one. Metal matte orange. That's very nice. So they smell a lot less, much significantly easier to clean. And it's just the fact that if you drop it, it's like, you know when you drop one, a plastic one,

Starting point is 01:10:38 you always like, like as it's about to hit the floor, this is just bulletproof. And over time, it gets dense, which is actually pretty cool. Because it rustic feels pretty hardcore back. I've been, I mean, they weren't applying much now because of summer, but I've been putting hot water in mine, because in the plastic one, hot water and plastic, bad idea. But just fill it up with hot water or tea, take it to the gym,

Starting point is 01:11:04 warm your hands up on the way in, especially if you're in a transition to metal. Yeah, it looks as cycle to the gym as well. So obviously, like if you're at your, it's cold outside, you just can't move your hands properly, tennis elbow, and plastic, plastic shakeers. You can pop liquid in the gym, it feels wrong.

Starting point is 01:11:18 But it's a really cold day, it's so lovely. I think having a cold drink when it's like, like brass, testicles cold is. I've got two two elements that are a little ancillary bit to doing the shaker. Definitely anyone who wants to buy one because they are fantastic and they continue to support the podcast, there will be a link to the steel shaker from the protein works in the show not to pull out and also that will include a discount code if I can find one. The first thing is when I spoke about the trademark pattern for it,

Starting point is 01:11:49 have you ever seen the original pattern for the toilet roll holder? No. This finishes the debate about whether or not the toilet roll should be set to go over the top or under the bottom. This shouldn't even be a debate. Yeah, I know. What do you think? In front, over the top. So it't even be a debate. Yeah, I know. What do you think in front over the top? So, it's closest to you. Yeah, exactly. And that's how the original pattern is.

Starting point is 01:12:11 That's a psychopath test, isn't that? Yeah, it's how the original pattern is filed. Right. So, it's closest to you. Yeah. Right. I understand it. But how do you even do it over that spot? Behind the back. How do you adjust it? It's difficult to, like you've got to. What do you mean? So it needs more limbs, doesn't it, to like anchor it in place? No, do you have to hold it? Yeah, it's a pull and a yank. Yeah, or to the side.

Starting point is 01:12:34 I still do. You still be able to do that if it wasn't at the side. You've got a fish behind it and like, it's just awkward. Presuming there's not a little bit hanging down. I always now play the game of like, can I? I don't need to know what it is. I don't want a second hand. Yeah, yeah, just to the side. Yeah, but it's far too is a game. Yeah, big downside though. Except, oh, I mean, I was going to say, have you ever got it wrong? Have you ever get it really, really wrong?

Starting point is 01:12:59 It's out of control is, is always surprises me. How? I'm sure that quickly things become easier. If you try and roll it back up, you'd never get it the same. Oh, you did. It's miles away. It's this soft mess. Yeah. Does Dexter not do that on toilet roll?

Starting point is 01:13:15 And I think animals seem to love unraveling toilet rolls. Yeah. How do we go onto that? Chris's tip. Chris's pant and pant. Fire on. What show you is patent, patent, phoeroid. What have you got? I think I'm almost out. I mean, we can't be running an empty for life hacks, man.

Starting point is 01:13:32 Well, I always expect that to just be... I've got a little bit of adhesive if anyone wants to. So I do have one that... It's not really a life hack. The tip is just Sam Evans. Seem... To mean, Seem. Seem... Seem. You mean, sim.

Starting point is 01:13:45 Sim, sim. Chris doesn't like Sam ovens because he's not someone that doesn't look like a... Why don't you like Sam ovens Chris? Massive Virgin. He's got a wife. Massive Virgin. Okay. Sam ovens because a massive virgin.

Starting point is 01:14:00 Big Chris. But an interesting guy on YouTube. I think he's crazy. Give me a watch. What one video is from Samovans? Do you think that everyone should watch? You're gonna get one crack at this and I'm not gonna let you do it again.

Starting point is 01:14:12 Good, good. Oh, Christ. Things I've shared later in my 20s. I mean, it depends what the person's interested in. I mean, that's what you've got one. You've got one. Just go on his YouTube. No, you have one, what exactly? The most popular video on his YouTube

Starting point is 01:14:27 is around that time, just watch that. So the life hack audience would like, say, things I wish I'd known, or like the... The 20s ones all about business. Okay, no. The online business ones are really good. His chaos series is really good. His productivity sucks really good.

Starting point is 01:14:44 Mindful of weed is really good. The productivity stuff's really good. Mindful of weed. The productivity one was good. What's the one on productivity? Some of them's on YouTube productivity. Cool, right, it's gone. So, again, Tommy, this is a repeat. If someone, this is a submission from Tess, if you're watching Tess, she's cutting out.

Starting point is 01:15:02 Very good. No, so she is a nurse in the Freeman hospital and her tip was if you see a man doing a poo in a plastic bag in a cubicle, get aggressive immediately, that is the way to stop it. So she opened the cubicle curtain, saw her man doing a poo in a plastic bag. So you are not, get out of there, you're doing it in the toilet and she just immediately went on the attack Curtin, so I'm doing a Poo-N-A-Pastic backstroke.

Starting point is 01:15:25 You are not, get out of there, you're doing it in the toilet and she just immediately went on the attack and I think that is an incredible response to her. Had she have tried to broach the subject with more diplomacy? Oh, it really continued going? Yeah, it would have been a mess but he was so shocked by her just being immediately on the offensive. Why? Okay, so this is a man in a hospital.

Starting point is 01:15:45 Yeah, but he, but he was a period of hospital. He wasn't feeling well mentally and well. No, not mentally and well, and not ill enough to have to, to not be able to make it to the, so it was his reason. He was in a cubicle. In, you know, in like a, in a bay. I thought you meant in a toilet.

Starting point is 01:16:00 In a toilet cubicle? No, just in a bed, Bay. So if you're in a hospital, yeah. So if you're in a hospital, yeah. And you see someone in a hospital bed, Bay. Well, there's a wider lesson for anyway, to be gained from this, which I think is like she had the wherewithal to just immediately go for it. So another example, your friend, who is the captain of the Newcastle Falcons, saw some bother going on, immediately ran over, picked up, and so it just got it, got it, got involved. And just put them in a wee, in a weely bin? In a weely bin.

Starting point is 01:16:35 Yeah, so, so just fully dispensing with people. I think it's just, so when you see a problem, don't try and just... But you have to try and deal with it. You may be sticking your nose in and committing it, overly committing to something that you don't need to then. There's a lot of delicacy that's... I think this is a good life hack for someone who's probably over the age of like 25 or 30. I think someone who's 18. There'll be two trigger happy.

Starting point is 01:17:02 Yeah, they're going to pull the trigger too soon. So my sister says, don't half fight anyone. I think someone who's 18. There'll be two trigger happy. Yeah, they're gonna pull the trigger too soon. So my sister says, don't half fight anyone. She's a bit of a fighter, but I think. Bless you. But that makes sense though, where it's like, if you went up to someone in the street and you just kind of like bonked them on the nose,

Starting point is 01:17:19 but not like properly, you're gonna end up in a much worse situation than if you just absolutely like nail them. I think it's just about, you shouldn't go out and assault someone. I think legally if you're in a better position, if you just go in a little bit. Really? Is it still a assault? It's still a escape, it might go from a assault to a GBH where you go from being like

Starting point is 01:17:38 a misdemeanor to you at a jail. It's okay. I know what you're saying. And it doesn't have to be about fights, I suppose, it's just about doing any commit to do it properly. I feel so bad for you running out of life hacks, because I'm just looking at a list that's longer than the list that I've given today. You need a really think.

Starting point is 01:17:58 Both of us reflect. Both of us are adamant about the fact that your barrier for what you consider to be a life hack is too high. I think you have many blind spots that you're great at. So between life hacks episodes not much changes in what I do. But within the productivity realm, I think you've got that down because you're operating under no constraints which people think is great but actually it's the hard, it's productivity on hard. Hard work is a choice in that.

Starting point is 01:18:26 Yeah, because you wake up in this light. I could just stay in bed and no one would notice. So, right, so I am going to do a final one and it's quite a nice one actually that we interested to hear both of your thoughts on. Drive without any music or sound play. drive without any music or sound playing. So a lot of certainly in this room, all of us will be optimization evangelists trying to oh well I've got this drive I'm not doing anything else. Auditorially I can use this time to learn or catch up on something or listen to some music that gets me in a mood which is optimal

Starting point is 01:19:03 for what I'm about to do maybe if you're're going, yeah, I do, but recently I have read Digital Minimalism by Carl Newport, and in Digital Minimalism he gives a fantastic definition of solitude. Do you remember that? Very glee. So solitude is a time when your mind is free from the input of other minds and that's different to being on your own and also different to being lonely. Loneliness is something which is unhealthy and time on your own where you still have the input of other minds is not solitude. Does he use walking as an example?

Starting point is 01:19:40 Do you go for long walks? Yes. One of the things that he does. But, yeah, so I've just been doing a drive, again, I've instantiated it into my day. So mine is now a part of my morning routine. So my morning drive to the gym is done in silence. And that will be after I've journaled, meditated, read a book, and potentially done some deep work. So if there was ever a time to sit in silence

Starting point is 01:20:05 and reflect about what's just gone on and how I'm going to spend my day ahead and stuff like that, it's then. And I have to say driving without any music on and without any sound on is actually really nice and engaging, taking in a little bit more of the scenery, allowing myself to book end whatever learning I've just gone through. It's, I'll be interested to see if you guys implement it, how it works for you, I know that. That's how occasionally, because, well, like driving is even on its own, quite a complex task, but after, like, a year, a year after passing your test, you kind of forget that it was ever hard. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:20:42 But there's so much going on that if you make to make a 17-year-old just learning to drive, just playing some loud metal music at the same time, or the other one. I think I do it automatically after training. Because after training, I just want to have a chill out. That's when people leave me alone. You just be listening to heavy stuff. That's what powerlifting you'll do. I guess with like frying a C&S so bad, especially if you're just like lifting heavy. Yeah. And if I'd like loud music, heavy stimulus, I don't want like a podcast or a book or music just quiet.

Starting point is 01:21:15 Yeah. But it's not, I'm probably not getting the same benefit as when you're in a fresh estate of mind. Yeah. I'd be interested if you would, if you adopted, I'd be really interested to see how you feel. Or maybe when you do your morning walk to. So I've been doing a few walks by accident. Silence. Yeah. Like my my phone will be low on battery or shit. How's the new airports? Fine. I got you. You heard it first, you guys. I think that the fact

Starting point is 01:21:43 that you haven't come in singing and dancing about airpods means that, well, so had I not lost my iPods, I wouldn't have bought iPods, put it that way. Why didn't you buy iPods? Well, because you had inquisitiveness. Looking back, do you wish that you'd saved a 30 or 40 quid? So I think they'd be better if I had... I don't think Johnny could live with itself with iPods one, one iPods two. Yeah, you would have done it as you already had them and now with the benefit of hindsight.

Starting point is 01:22:09 So, okay, so the hay Siri functionality is cool. So if he, she just loves it, it's so responsive. So if you use that, hay Siri. There you go. I think that's just the slowness of your book. Yeah, well it might be that you've got quite an old phone. The Quran's too. It's a Quran. Quran. And don't worry, it'll be me.

Starting point is 01:22:34 It's a Macroo. So that functionality is really cool. I asked someone else about the double tap left, double tap right. He told me that they, their feature, their iPod ones, don't have skip songs on, they're not using the function, the functionality correctly. It's in, so if settings on, this is Ben.

Starting point is 01:22:56 Ben, Ben is going wrong. Ben isn't using it right. Yeah. I'll put that to Ben. Sorry Ben. Your app is not temperamental and neither are iPods. They're a piece of technology, just the same as the rest of ours. He really squeezes the lemon with the app infrastructure and he uses it to its end.

Starting point is 01:23:13 I'm afraid. Can I see yours? We have found where the rubber meets the road, my friend. So anyway, so that feature for me was cool because for me that was a... Chris, let me just get my phone out. Hello. Do you know what happening tomorrow I'm actually getting a new phone. I can't do it because I'm not connected so. So what I was going to say was if I had an iPhone X or whatever with

Starting point is 01:23:39 wireless charging and I had a wireless charging mat you'd get a lot of benefit of that I think being able to see charge your head for me. It's just nice. It's just, for me, induction charging is such a gimmick. The only thing that I can see that works for induction charging is what's come out on those new Samsung's where you can charge it. We can share charge between phones. So if I've got 100% and you've got like 10%, you can take some of my charge. And that is for the- So if I'm being able to charge your headphones

Starting point is 01:24:10 on the phone. Okay, yeah, so charging, charging other devices from them, on a device which currently doesn't charge you the devices. But all that you need is a lightning to lightning cable and for Apple to have that in an iPhone. Yeah, why don't they do that? That doesn't exist, does it?

Starting point is 01:24:26 No, right. No. I'd be able to get a bean one. I don't think you can. You can't send charge from the phone. You can't send charge. I think it would just be like, well, it will. It would be sucking power out of both of them.

Starting point is 01:24:39 She's a bad idea. It's an up and zero on both. So that function heart is nice, but they are the same. They're the same as good. I am the next time that we do a life hacks, I will have a XS max, the pro pro one, the largest, the largest, the biggest big. Yeah, size of this sofa.

Starting point is 01:24:59 Oh my god, it's larger. It would be like, so I'll see, I will be able to. It would be interesting, so back has gotten X, I think, Nolax. Yeah, so but like, not having that button takes a while, like just when you're using it, and you have to use the side button a lot more and then you knock it with your face and all that stuff.

Starting point is 01:25:17 I imagine once he used to it, I'm gonna miss, I'm gonna miss having the home button, but it's getting finished. Then there's four, one, was it? It getting for itself. Then it is for one, it was really cheap. You got it for £1 effectively because of the, or for a £1 cheaper than... It was a black Friday like a Vodafone deal. You basically got the overlap of about 12 different discounts. Yeah, that's all the one.

Starting point is 01:25:38 Again, the problem with that is that Webinar's SIM-free, I mean, Darryl both be going into bio-S SIM-free without contract, and the contract start with separately. So, to be just keeping the same SIM, keeping the same, keeping the same everything by our SIM-free, move everything across. Like, that, again, for anyone who's listening, that's a fucking fantastic live hack by your phone. If you've got the cash by your phone, outright,

Starting point is 01:26:01 because the deal that you can get on your contract, you're paying over the odds to finance the phone from someone who's not built to finance phones. Well, people don't realise when they take out consumer credit, which is one of these, when you either opt to pay your insurance monthly or you get a phone contract that's monthly and you get the phone for free, is that you're taking out an extremely high interest loan and a sub quality contract deal. An earth price contract deal for what you get. But because people don't really annualise it, people don't multiply out the time.

Starting point is 01:26:35 You're absolutely rinsed around people used to paying like the equivalent or whatever for the phone service next to the next phone. Some phone companies, mine nearly to this to me, once you reach the end of your... They just go like, they keep charging you at the rate that you've been paying. So once you've paid the phone off, technically that's the debt pay.

Starting point is 01:26:56 Not the fuckers. They continue just billing you 40 quid. So what you have to bring them and say, don't grade me to a simon lease contract. You need to use Bill Monitor, which I can't remember, it might have been Blifax 101. No, not spoken with you.

Starting point is 01:27:09 Ah, okay. The mother fucker. Oh, is this like Toby? This is developed by Oxford mathematicians. Oh, God. It's like it's an algorithmic market search. You put in the constraints or you give them the login for your previous

Starting point is 01:27:26 contract data, your usage. Is this only for phones? For phones, yeah. So minutes versus minutes allowance, but this minutes are used, data, et cetera. And it finds what is the best contract or combination of offers across any network. And you set, do you want SIM-3, do you want contract, do you want, how much data do you want or whatever, but ultimately you can just put it all in and it'll just generate it for you based on your usage.

Starting point is 01:27:52 Apple's new trade-in feature is awesome, so this is good, I'll be trading this in tomorrow. I'll give you like 10 quid for it though. 275 quid, which is 20 quid more than musicmyrippi.com will give me. The musicmyrippi would be a rip as well though, isn't it? Like somewhere I got rid of my last one. Music myrippi is not bad. What would it sell on Amazon? For. Well, I refurbed one.

Starting point is 01:28:14 Yeah. Oh, fuck no, it was probably a lot. Probably 500 quid. But I can't do it that way. And I can't be bothered with eBay. I can't be bothered with Facebook marketplace. It's quite good if you just want no admin. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:28:24 And it's in the realm, like you're only going to get, so 275 for that. But 300 difference though. Well, okay, no, no, so 200 quid. 225 quid. I don't think the difference is that big, you know, I don't think it's... Maybe 400 quid, actually, maybe even less.

Starting point is 01:28:38 Because if people don't want, like typically, that's a 7 plus, that's like three years old now. You probably get an X or an eight but I think if you go much old because that you run into software problems because to get grand out of the price them out of the mine mine's starting to get problems but this has been the longest lasting one like three years just under three years with three years in September with the same phone so this it's exactly the same everybody you getting battery issues. So I've replaced the battery in mind on the last day, the last day that Apple care existed.

Starting point is 01:29:09 Ah right, yeah. Consumer law. Consumer, you love consumer law. That's what happens when you've got friends that work in Apple. They replace things under consumer law. They do it because I was looking, because you know the most expensive MacBook. Yes. So I was seeing what is the most expensive MacBook. Yes. Like six. So I was seeing what is the most expensive MacBook to expect the fucking thing.

Starting point is 01:29:29 And it is like six and a half round. Um, but they do a. I'm just really laughing. But they do it. They do a MacBook trade in which I swear they didn't used to do. So when you, when you're out to check out on this says, would you like to trade in a MacBook and you put in your serial number? Yeah and they give you yeah I think it's mind was like five and a quarter something? I've just missed that then they didn't do. What do you mean?

Starting point is 01:29:56 Like I've just got rid of it. I've told you you sold it. You look at more money than eBay Nightmare though. Oh did you? Oh Oh, I remember this. Yeah. Can we talk about it? Yeah. Are you outside of the live-less window for it? Probably. Oh, there's no such thing. I mean, it, here you are. Like, it was the guy's fault, but I sold a MacBook

Starting point is 01:30:15 and drenched in porn. How much is it? It's dripping. Ah! I'm ripping my porn. So, it said, like, these are the specs, here it is working and it was fine. I had the motherboard replaced and it tested it,

Starting point is 01:30:31 worked absolutely fine. Did all the like, the proper Apple diagnostic tests through the thing, including the results on that. Guy bought it, he was a tech guy and I think he'd been tampering with it. 48 days after buying it, he sent me a photo of it working saying like, oh, the battery's not very good. It's like, well, yeah, it's a six year old laptop and it's set. I said on the thing, like I included the battery health and the number of cycles and stuff.

Starting point is 01:30:57 And the following day, he was like, oh, no, it doesn't turn on at all. He's like, oh, that's interesting. The day after he sent me a picture of it working, You're like, oh, that's interesting. The day after you send me a picture of it working, 49 days after you bought it, it's suddenly not working at all. And he was like, I want to refund. It's like, well, I don't really know like what you expected, like, I'm sorry, it's failed,

Starting point is 01:31:16 but it was working when I sold it to you, devices, and you escalated to eBay and then eBay will like, no escalated to eBay and then eBay will like no escalated to PayPal. If you had your account shut down on PayPal. No, PayPal ruled in my favor. Oh that's good. Because they were like, you guys are a pleb. You bought something that yeah. So I think what he done is he tried to like play with the thing himself, broke it and then was like, oh no one really fun. So I sold my, before my current laptop,

Starting point is 01:31:47 I sold the MacBook on eBay to a guy, sounds very similar to that. And I had an argument with him in a car park. He called me a scoundrel. A scoundrel? Yeah. So do you actually look scoundrel? All right, so this guy, I'm in shell garage car park

Starting point is 01:32:02 at Newcastle Airport, dealing with this guy. So are you in person? I met him in person, yeah, as opposed to mailing it. Yeah, well, he was relatively local. So he'd driven to the, and he was like, shell garage at Newcastle Airport. There is a certain type of personality of people that buy a second-hand Mac. Yeah. And I've realized eBay is much more of a headache than it gets. And they charge like a 15, 30% fee. Facebook marketplace, I can find out where you work. Oh, yeah, true.

Starting point is 01:32:32 And what did he say? He was just like, he was picking the whole thing apart. And I just, I sat there thinking, like, this is getting to the point now when this wasn't worth it. Like, when you net eBay fees and the time the questions he had about it before we got to this point and the questions now and you just think like I think I saw it was in my book, the 11-inch thing. So what do you expect, like you're getting it? So I just think people who buy stuff like that that's quite old and very like off pace of what's available. Yeah, just a certain type of person.

Starting point is 01:33:06 They're already trying to drill down to the finest possible. Yeah, yeah. But they want, it's the same as the people who sign up for your £6.1, of course, and also complain about the fact that it's not fully percostomised and doesn't involve like a personal call once a week. Hey, this doesn't have 3,000 pounds worth of coaching in the six pound project. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:33:27 But Apple just avoid all of this, don't they? Well, just pricing themselves. Well, they just, like, things are expensive and you can afford it, you can't. And enough people can afford it. They don't need to deal with the general public, like sometimes when I get exposed to the general public, like places like planes and airport, like waiting, waiting

Starting point is 01:33:48 bit. Plains is the big one because you're forced in a container. I was on a train. I was messaging you guys last time that I was on a train and the train picked up some young party goers in York and dropped them off in Darlington and I heard for the entirety of the journey from York in Darlington. And I heard for the entirety of Journey from York to Darlington, I heard them argue about whose house they were going to have the pre-party at. Like the whole way, I'm just like, look guys,

Starting point is 01:34:14 I don't want to go all podcast on here, but life actually is too short. And if yours isn't too short, then mind fucking isn't. And by the way, this is B coach, which is a quiet coach, sucking everyone leave. It's just, just yeah people choosing to go on the quiet coach to just have just articulate about this and there was one girl of this whole like situation was going on. That's a sensory assault as well and they have had like hair spray and you like oh yeah it was multimedia not only like it's not right yeah and now this one girl kept on saying so they were

Starting point is 01:34:44 talking about are they going to have it a dance house or are they gonna have it at Chris's house Dan wanted it at his house and Chris wanted it at his house No, Chris made we're gonna have it at my house and then he'd say no, Dan made we're gonna have it at mine But every time that Chris said we're gonna have it at my house his girlfriend piked up and said our house Chris Every single time we're gonna to have it at my house, ah, how's we're going to have it at my house, like the whole time, and I was like, surely she's going to give up here every time that he said it, she corrected him. I'm like, fair play to that girl, like draw lines in the sand, we said it in relationships one-on-one. But I kind of get the impression

Starting point is 01:35:24 that you and Chris aren't going to last that long. Maybe Chris was clinically deaf and that's why he was suggesting to tell us about it. That's why I was shouting, listen, my house and that's why they went in a quiet coach because they thought that he'd be. Because they thought it was signed. And it was, I've witnessed you surf. So we were on the way back from London, the kind of where we, and it was noisy, and some people got on the train really drunk, and these two guys started.

Starting point is 01:35:50 Sweet Caroline. Sweet Caroline. I could just watch the tide just go up there, I can't say it. It was motine leaflets all over again. I just let it go, I just let it go. He was like, yeah, you're right, continue talking, and then I would say something, and have to say over again. I just let it go, I just let it go. And he's like, yeah, you're right. Continue talking. And then I would say something and have to say it again.

Starting point is 01:36:08 And when I said it again, I just saw him go, actually, you put on it. Can you straight down the pipe of that camera and into the microphone so the listeners at home here? Can you explain the thing that you see if does the footage about to deliver some news that you know someone doesn't say. There's a there's almost like a multiple gasps of breath to it. So I want I want to think it's faster than that. I think it's a the frequencies a bit more like No, it's not it's definitely a

Starting point is 01:36:45 What do you think it's not, it's definitely a... What do you think it's due to? I think it's a vestige from when I used to have a stutter when I was little. Oh, so that would be a war bath. Yeah, so sometimes certain syllables wouldn't come out. So you have to almost trick your brain into either pretending you're gonna sing the syllable, or like, take an here. What it looks like is you're just looking for a space in the conversation to say something. It doesn't look like a tick or anything. That's good.

Starting point is 01:37:13 I'm glad it doesn't, but it's not like that. But when you see that happen, it's like, get down. Take a look. And you say, I think the one who's doing it like, I don't mean this in an nasty way, David. You said something like, can you just keep it down a bit please, mate. Like, what would you like me to do?

Starting point is 01:37:39 So much. So much. You know, very much, Corrigan. And this, the carriage literally just went went no noise. And there was a date and and then the couple of people go like, yeah, who's keeping a donut like the the woman that was with the couple went like, see, I told you. And then literally this the carriage was unsightened. You're a man of the pizza. You're a man of the pizzaman? Well, they were being so... Temperature, and noise. Other things that are coming up, I...

Starting point is 01:38:07 Well, I've got PTSD from flying to New York years ago, because someone in front of me was doing the most... They must have had a toxic mega colon. I was like, it was like... Is that the medical term? Oh, it was like... Is that like a big piece of punctuation?

Starting point is 01:38:23 KFC puff puffs. Oh, it was like a big piece of punctuation. KFC puff puffs. Oh, good. For a five hour flight. Can you think of a particular medical issue that they might have had? Can you name us a medical issue? I think it's just probably like irritable bowel. I don't know what it is.

Starting point is 01:38:34 Is there not a funny, a wording one? Some really... Might be glad I'm related. Clitoral megalinegrum. Have you considered it might have been Clitoral Megalinegroom? It may well have been, but that tends not to be characterized by a fried chicken pepper. It was so awful. I'd just try a retchum for the whole day. What is it like, five hours or something?

Starting point is 01:38:59 They're doing it, so I'm like, I mean fair enough, they can't fart anywhere else, but That's a really good point. Like, can you not fight inside? Well, it's actually on a plane, almost more selfish to get up every time and go to the toilet to fight. Is it? Well, think how often you'd have to ask the person actually to move and choose an aisle seat.

Starting point is 01:39:18 Ah man, if you get a part, she's an aisle seat. I've got so many traveling ones that I've got over the last week. I am, I would. May have to theme the life hacks, that I reckon that'll get Johnny's juices. Yeah, that's what I need. I need something.

Starting point is 01:39:28 Not theme in the life hacks, man. You're just going to start taking them down. People like the pick and mix nature, right? I'll try my best. So, I'll finish on this. Yesterday, I was on a plane back from New York, and there was a guy sat behind me, and I didn't turn around and look properly.

Starting point is 01:39:44 So I put my seat in, leaned it back, and then immediately felt like some movement in my lower back, and I was like, it's a bit weird. He wasn't have sorted his stuff out. And then I heard him say something pretty quickly after I'd done it. I turned around and it was maybe a late 40s American man who said something to the effect of why have you moved your seat back? And and I said that's what the buttons for. That's a curious response. And he said what no one else on the plane's moved their seat back. You can move your seat back just as much and then we're all...

Starting point is 01:40:16 So I then said to him I was like look I'm not moving their seat back I'm moving my seat back then just went back to reading me book. Reading me book. Ten minutes of constant movement in my lower back, and I thought this guy must have brought his knees up to his chest to annoy me or something. I'm like, how infantile is this guy? And I'm reading, still reading me book, enjoying it.

Starting point is 01:40:41 Always get some more nice. But yeah, that's what I was thinking. It's surely not. So anyway, I turned around and I said, after 10 minutes, I'm like, we have a little bit agitated, and he's getting lost. Is there an issue? Well, likely, is there a problem? It's this, it's that.

Starting point is 01:40:58 What's so awful. It was sat next to his daughter and wife as well. So, and I'm like, look, is there an issue? And he said, look, there's not a lot of room here. I was the long man. So I had already made the decision. I'd already made the decision to myself that I was just going to move my seat up.

Starting point is 01:41:17 I was like, I would much sooner have my journey in peace than have to interact with this man. And I think that that generally in itself is a good, caeristic to use for these sorts of situations. Like, yes, you're succeeding ground, and maybe you shouldn't, but immediately, it's not about winning the lose, it's not about he's got the victory,

Starting point is 01:41:37 and you've got the loss. It's about the fact that you were at peace with your situation, and that to me was much more satisfying. If you have to sit more upright, it's a bit more upright, but I don't have his knees in my back anymore. And it turned out,

Starting point is 01:41:48 I'm not gonna say when you moved it back, that he had his head down for something and then he'd have pinned in the position. No, that would have been, so he didn't get worse than that. No, so he said, I'm six foot four. And he, like sure enough,

Starting point is 01:42:02 he couldn't move his knees out of the way. And I hadn't even moved my seat all the way back. Six foot four. Then the lady came round and uh, got some drinks. And he passed me a coffee and said, thank you very much for that. And then when he went to sleep, said, I'm going to sleep with my legs out to the side of in the aisle, because we were both in the aisle, like feel free to move your seat back now. And then asking me a bunch of questions about how you Zuber in London for him and his family when we got off the plane at the end. And I thought, did he buy you a coffee or did he just get one? It was a free coffee but she'd run out of coffee at him.

Starting point is 01:42:32 That's the judge. So she was going to turn around and go back and she was like, I don't know, do you want to go? He wasn't just trying to shack your seat with coffee. Yeah, maybe just threw it in my bag. But yeah, I think from that I was like, yeah, like to see the little bit of ground and just enjoy that. And then on top of that as well, the actual final outcome of it was me feeling like that guy had a nice

Starting point is 01:42:49 journey. I didn't do this and we improved a bit international relations. It's if you're going to sell that seven quid and now. So that's about something. It's turned 26 now. Yeah. That was a hot, warm, mixed story too. It was a nice way to finish. And so before we go, do not forget, please head to iTunes and give us five star rating. Don't forget to leave a review. And you could be the lucky recipient of one of these two six minute diaries. Thank you very much. To your best self, if you'd like to get a hold of one, there will also be a link to that

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Modern Wisdom - #075 - Life Hacks 108

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