Modern Wisdom - #129 - Christmas Special - Hacks, Fails & Lessons From 2019

Episode Date: December 23, 2019

Jonny & Yusef from Propane Fitness join me for a special Christmas edition end of year recap. In 2019 what did we love, what did we hate, what did we discover, what did we leave behind and when did we fall completely flat on our faces? Extra long, extra girthy and extra festive, thank you for all your support this year - merry Christmas everybody! Extra Stuff: Check out Propane Fitness - https://propanefitness.com/ Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Merry Christmas, humans. Welcome back to a very festive modern wisdom. Joining you, NewSiff from Propane Fitness, are joining me today as we talk through our favorite hacks, fails and lessons from 2019. I'm certain that there will be a lot for you to take away and perhaps we'll recap some things that you've missed throughout the year. I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank you and everybody who has tuned in over the last 12 months. The growth that modern wisdom has seen is absolutely incredible. I know that two episodes a week is a lot to try and keep up with, but there is no paid promotion, there are no sponsored boosts on the episodes, there's no big network supporting it and pushing

it out to the masses. The only reason that this channel grows is because people like you are suggesting it to their friends and putting it in group chats or firing it out online, whatever it is. So if you've done that over the last 12 months then I wanted to wish you an extra special Merry Christmas because you are the reason that this channel continues to grow and it is something that's so meaningful to me. So thank you very much. I honestly couldn't think of a better Christmas present than you sending it to someone who you think might enjoy it. So without further ado, let's recap the Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back, a very merry Christmas to you. I'm joined by Johnny and Yusuf from propanefitness.com.

Welcome back to us. Welcome back indeed. You must actually take two because we were being naughty. There's nothing naughty. There were being Christmas elves. As you can see, Johnny's wearing a familiar jumper except for the fact it's broken. You've got an indicator. I don't think it's broken fully. Better. Some would say better. Better. Anyway, surprising. If you are only listening, I suggest that you head to YouTube to check out our Christmas jumpers in all of their splandles.

Yours is lovely. Really nice isn't it? You said it's far too small for them, you can't really see that because you said that. That's your girlfriend's jumper isn't it? And so take it slow in the snow and it's a sloth with earmuffs on there. Like a cautionary notice isn't it? Yeah it is. You can stand by the side of the road just way running. That's still very sensible.

Yeah. So today we're going to go through some of our favorite hacks, lessons, fails from 2019. Do a year in review. What it is that we've been getting up to. Johnny, hot lump of coal for Christmas. Lump of coal.

There you go. What would you like to know? What have you, okay, here's one. What have you dropped within the last year in terms of sort of routine or products consistency? That's a great question. That is a surprise team. Ronwad, many gives you 20. And how do you feel having, so no different, I would say.

Why have you dropped wrong words for this? So Chris went to see Mr McGill, came back and was like, don't do wrong more, Johnny. Otherwise you'll snap yourself. So I think I probably didn't, because I was doing it and it was taking a long time and I was still getting injured. And I was still feeling tight and I was still feeling, you know, pain discomfort,

like as you would normally expect from training. So try dropping it. Also, no, there's no change really. So I do miss it, but not for the right reasons. Well, yeah, no, I agree. I agree completely to my, my reasons, rumble that I still think is a fantastically useful tool. And it's a beautiful way to start your morning.

There's just certain physiologies, mine being one of them, that the changes that the stretches elicit, it doesn't agree with. So rum was gone. You said, what have you added or taken away this year that's been surprising? Because you do like water down rumble, don't you? All the gymnastics stuff. Yeah, like all the time. Was it that's been surprising because you do like water down one

Don't you like all gymnastics stuff? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not Disposive gymnastics the sport of rum odd. It's competitive rum odd isn't it? Because they don't have seat is tradably have like other things Other like proper names for the things positions So I dropped let's go We came a doctor, became a doctor. And as far as habits, I think there's quite a big shift with having to go from pressurising yourself for a certain point on assessment to just doing the job.

That's been quite a big shift and I think quite a lot of challenges with time management and just juggling a lot more in terms of energy time sleep That kind of thing. You've entered you after you're like finally in the real world after 10 years of being west you went in for a bit and it was like wrong bit wrong bit and then yeah, not getting in. Yeah, fuck trading. Where's all the just loads of

blood and pee, wasn't there? Quite a lot. How much body fluid do you see? Luckily, so we were saying this before that you were kind of insulated from it a little bit, whereas nurses got blessed on the front line. They just get... Taking fire. Like they get punched. The point whereas nurses got blessed on the front line. They just get... Taking fire. Like they get punched. The point of nurses got punched last week by someone and it's always like the first port of call for like, Nurse, I've shook myself.

And sometimes it's absolutely excusable. You know, someone who can't help it, but sometimes you just get people who lazy or a bit just vindictive and like, there's a, there can be a sense of, I've, I've paid for this. So I'm gonna, who has? You sure you don't, you know that shit yourself.

You pay taxes, you're like, well, I'm not supposed to know. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, what's it this? Well, I mean, it's not common, but you can really, what's it, what's it, I can't remember who the comedian is, who says, it's not common, but you can. I can't remember who the comedian is who says it's like it's like making a dirty protest against the standards in a hotel by shitting the bed, then realizing that you've got to wake up in a shitted bed. Yeah, except for the fact that someone comes and done shit to the bed for you in hospital, don't they? You have to shit in the bed

like as you leave the bed, they take the pool away, the pool, the pool it comes, and then it goes. Yeah. So you've changed a lot to do with that, and I guess that you sleep is going to be a bit of a challenge and stuff now as well. I think I've learned a lot about myself with doing night shifts. What have you learned? Switching between it, so just how much it affects how stupid you are. So, in there we go the big lesson has been it has anyone seen the Shane Parish stupidity podcast. Yes, we talked about the seven factors of stupidity which are being in a group outside of your normal group being outside of your domain of competence

being in the presence of an expert or being an expert yourself, being in a crowd having sensory overload or being tired. I think those are the seven. And are you saying that you have to send your boss? It must be at least six or seven. The first couple of months, you are just, you're like, I'm so aware that I'm operating on 10% brain because everything is designed to make you stupid. Like, and he defines stupid not as a lack of intelligence, but missing what is conspicuously obvious

because of these factors. And so slowly as you begin to mitigate those, you use more of your brain, you can think more clearly. But yeah, very, very interesting experience. Because in corporate world, like the way that people rationalize something, like, don't worry, it's not that bad, it's not life and death. You know, that's the thing that everyone says. And so you're always like, yeah, you're right.

Well, you trade in life and that's just a spreadsheet. Whereas you are in the only scenario really where it is like, only ever is life and death. That's just a spreadsheet. It's just a spreadsheet. Whereas you are in the only scenario really where it is like... It is like... Only ever is life and death. And poo. Sometimes it's just poo. poo is just on the spectrum, isn't it, of life and death. Like poo will happen at specific points on the spectrum of life and death.

I understand. Cool. What about you Chris? Hold on, you didn't ask the answer to the question. That is? What if you drop, stopped being a student? All right, okay. Dropped his medical degree.

Is there any habits or routines that you sort of volumptive, like that wouldn't have happened anywhere that you stopped doing? So things like Anki using, right? And all of the surrounding habits that you have around that, and I think it opens up a huge amount of RAM in one sense because you're not trying to just stuff your brain with much like...

For people who don't know what rank he is, it's a space repetition flashcard software that helps medical students remember what they need to learn. Yeah, sure. Very good bit of software actually, like it's, you create your a deck of flashcards except if you're making 10,000 like me,

then how many did you finish up? 10,000. So really, if you are a medical student or an any student and you have an Anki flashcard deck with more than 10,000 flashcards in it and you send me a screenshot at Chris Rolex on Instagram, I will send you a case of knockoff free. Wow. How are we gonna protect against people forging that? It's a long process to... Oh, sorry. I just have to knock it.

Are you still journaling? No, but you will be pleased to know that I unwrapped my six minute diary. I've started reading through the preamble, which is long. Yeah, it is. There's a big buy-in. I thought it would be like a couple of pages,

no, it's just fucking legit. So I've not started the actual journal process, but... Will you in turn, maybe, do it for the new year? Yeah. Wow, I, do you know what it is? I was going to ask for it back. Really? I was going to say, I was just going to say, I'll just give it to someone who's going to use it. He's going to actually appreciate it.

So, hold on, why have you stopped journaling? Is it because you used, you don't want to? No, I, as in like, I've never really journaled as a consistent thing. I just do it as and when things come up and I just type them up. Right. But I'm convinced now to try six-minute diary.

I think pen to paper, having a physical, like everything away and just sit. I think there's something to be said for just doing a, like, I mean, you're a huge, like, you're the one that got me onto it, which is like doing a long form brain dub that's just total lands off, rather than just like a partial one, because that's like having a partial poo, isn't it? Like, you might just relieve the pressure a little bit, but then... Well, the good stuff's still there. Oh, yeah. Still inside.

Man, I'm really, really happy to hear that you're going to use it. I'm genuinely excited for the fact that you might not think it's shit. Yeah, I think I'm not going to lie. Like when I first saw it, I was like, oh, it's just this trendy little thing. It's, man, so Dominic spends the guy that the gentleman do that's written it You can see by the number of like references that's in it and how Thura the start is anyone who does not we're talking about six-minute diary daily journaling three minutes and one in three minutes and even in three questions He got asked I've just filled in my fifth So that's like maybe a thousand pages of writing maybe a thousand days of journaling and

1000 pages of writing, maybe 1000 days of journaling. And... Is that how long have you had it for? I keep on getting more. I keep on getting more, I keep on getting more. Two years. Two years of like consistent, sorry, two and a half years of consistent ease. You're so consistent with that stuff.

It's just my morning routine, man. Just like my morning routine is... Was it not six hours at one point? Your morning routine. It was a point last year where you said, like your total morning routine was six hours. If I wasn't for it full, like, dick and balls and included, I was including my training time in that. So like training plus training time was like three and a half.

Because if it's six hours, that's just, it's just day and night. But that's, so this is what I've been, something I've been thinking about recently. I love the fact that a morning routine is this, have medically sealed, peachy dish for self-development, unencumbered and unmalested by everyone else, everything else.

It's the most crisp sentence I've ever heard. Why? Just to say, what was it, a domestically sealed peachy dish of unencumbered? Are you saying that I'm just being like the balls for the reason? Because it's Christmas, and I can use whatever fucking words I want, all right? Chris, this tastes caffeinated. I know it is. I know it's not. I believe you.

New sponsor, we got a new sponsor, everybody. Knock-o, shout out to Knock-o. Thank you. Johnny's terrified of the fact that the one that has in big capital letters caffeine-free sugar-free carbonate. What's a bit alarming is if you just glance at it, you see 5,000 milligrams. sugar-free carbonate. What's a bit alarming is if you just glance at it, you see 5,000 milligrams. So I tasted it and I was like, because it's just a BCAA. Yeah.

And I looked at it and I saw a photo. Oh, it's okay. But it's okay. You're totally correct. This is made in a factory which contains. Which may contain. Yeah. I mean, you were terrified it would have nuts in it.

No, those are okay. No carbs company, doesn't it? On the morning time, you were terrified it would have nuts in. No, those are okay. No carbs company, doesn't it? On the morning time, you get your morning routine, it's no one's getting any way to do, stop any from doing your shit. What I've realized is, if you become very, very anal about how you do your morning routine, you can work out exactly how long everything's going to take. Especially when you're doing things that are quite discrete, so the state apt takes eight minutes,

the meditation of a 20 minute session takes 20 minutes, reading takes 20 minutes of the countdown timer. How long does six minute diary actually take? So I tend to take a little bit longer because it's the first thing I do, so I'll be drinking water, probably settling into wherever I'm sat. I would say five minutes. I'm lost. Okay, so it's not just like a... That's in the morning, then. And then there's the evening bit.

The evening one tends to be quick. It's supposed to be three minutes in the morning, three minutes in the evening. Yeah. But I'm a bit worried that you'll... Just because I've seen you stuff try lots of different things, and typically you aren't brought in by... Like Chris and I would read something or like, here's something, or try something new and be really kind of sold on it, because it's a bit fun and nice. I worry that you'll read the preamble and just be like,

and then you'll try it for a while, and you'll be like, I joined a cult for, so I know you'll be a potential game. But yeah, so I suppose like, I was bought into it, or is it FOMO wanting to? Even the fact that you were sufficiently concerned about potential gains to open it and read and 60 whatever it is 60, 70 pages that's the buy in at the stock I think. But anyway so you know exactly how long everything's going to take on your morning right and this is

as you're moving into the new year if I could give you one piece of advice, one piece of advice would be girls sober, second piece of advice would be sleep with your phone outside of your room, but third piece of advice would be get a morning routine. And as you see, this is how long everything is going to take blah, blah, blah. What you realize is if I was able to run my day forward like that, if I was able to do 12 hours of this, the same fidelity morning routine. Imagine how much you get done every single essentially every minute to every. You can live your life as if it was a morning routine. Yeah, just that it's by that.

What I mean is like every minute is accounted for and is and during that minute you're doing precisely what you're supposed to be doing. So that's what I that's something I try and do in my morning routine. So that's a calney port thing. I've like, try and plan out as much of your days, you possibly count on a bit of paper or like in your gym, or whatever. In 15 minute blocks. I do it in 30 minute blocks. So like, you know, how long does it take to get there? How long am I going to be doing on this task? And there's something that Carl says, which is like, he's convinced that a nine till five window perfectly planned, or like planned out in a minute, that person gets way

more done than the 60 hour work week person who's just like, you know, you can much more easily control the intensity of your work than you can control the passage of time. Yeah. I mean, you know, we get to do the second one. So, so yeah, I guess for me, doubling down a morning routine, probably one of them has been focus on rest, the meditation technique from Shenzhen Young's Five Oils, which is both of our meditation coaches bronze doing. To the people that don't know what I'm talking about, it's just a particular type of meditation focus. You're focusing on the absence of a visual auditory or somatic experience in your head, which sounds a bit woo. But bottom line is, I've now managed to ingrade that and I did it for so long

that it feels like getting a squeegee and wiping a window clean. And if there's something that arises, it must be similar to your releasing technique or it must have a similar sort of effect. I can drill it so much now that I can do sea rest, sea rest, feel rest. And after that, genuinely feels like my mind's cleaner, after that little thing. I did it for six months. Yeah, like you're getting one of those like brush your brain. Brush your brain.

Okay, so that's what that's one of them. What else? What have you done this year that you failed at, Johnny, other than you just hurt your wrist at CrossFit? Yeah, so I've written down on my on a notes document, what went well and what didn't go well. The main thing that didn't go well was I started the year

snapping my hamstring underneath 255 kilos. Does it not IT band? It well, everything it was like, it was something here. I call it, I refer it as my hamstring. I don't think some people thought it was my sartorial. Sartorial. Sartorial. It's like, mustartorial.

It sounds like a Roman guard. And then there was the phallanks. So they call it sartorial, because you know, you say, this is a sartorial piece of work. It's a tailor. Because it's the tailor's muscle, because it attaches. No. Inside, see. Yeah, so it's. No, it does. Inside C.

Yeah, so it's basically the inside. Just that way. It's what allows you to bring your heel up and in like that. Right. Which makes that easier. Which is a position that you're in. Started the earth by nagging yourself. Snuff.

Yeah. Stopped how I live. The worst thing that happened on that evening was, so that's just happened. I mean, the garage, right? So get the bottom and there's like a, and I hear it. Over my knees on the video. Yeah.

So dump that forward. And then like limp back into the house. Don't even unload the 255. Still there. No, I'm joking. Took Dexter. So like Dexter was just a puppy at the time. Took him for a walk and he slipped

out of his harness. So we're like, on a roundabout, okay, big roundabout, and Becca's picking up his poo and he just bolted in the other direction, like slips out his harness. I'm like, fuck. So I then had to run, like, because he's running towards the, they were sitting for this roundabout and just, just being adrenaline dumb, no pain for a couple of seconds, just went full gas pedal after decks to court him, picked the weapon, I was like, oh my god, and then just this area was just like red hot. Wow. So try to recover through that, try to compete, didn't compete

was like, I've had it with powerlifting, did six months across fit, and then hit my wrist. And you're now considering going back to how well I'm doing what I can. So like, what I can do is basically the power lift, it's like I can't even do a chin up, I can't do another hair press, benches iffy. But that was just from catching a power clean on this side and missing it on my right and then the bar just juggling down. Unfortunate. But so injuries I think. But like I just I mean that's always so I want well this year. What did you put down as going well? So the flip side of that was I experimented a lot in fitness. The most I have done probably since I was like 16. Most since've known you yeah so like did some 5K runs time damn did

obviously six months across for it um did I feel like I it's probably the most amount of time I've taken away from barbells yeah yeah plus traditional barbells works it's been really good been fun um what about looking forward what did it so you've got those two things which are like kind of two sides the same sword? What does that mean for 2020? I don't know. I think, and this probably doesn't apply to everybody, but I think the thing that keeps pulling me back to powerlifting is I feel like I'm, I feel like I have unfinished business

in powerlifting. Like I really want a 700 pound deadlift. That was my goal for so long. I feel like I have unfinished business in part of the thing. Like I really want a 700 pound deadlift. That was my goal for so long. And what's that? 320, 317.5. Fuck you so close. So I know what exactly. So like,

part of the thing is so annoying because of that. It is. If all of the, do you want it in competition? I'm just in training. So there's two things. So one, I still hold the night three kilos, Edler Freckle, and there's a guy who's just pulled 300 in training who's right on the heels of it. So I quite like to bump a little bit. I have to get back down to the 93.

I would. I would. So these are the decisions I'm thinking. I'm so keen if you get 93. Man, you would be. Yeah. So I am just thinking about just getting really lean jack and just come whatever, whatever may. But it's interesting, cause I don't have the same desire for that anymore. I don't know why. Ascentically.

Yeah, I just, fitness men and pulls man. Well, yeah, I think like we've all been through the fitness, probably the past. You maybe, that's three years past. It's a start to risk it. When I start having cross, cross the past. You maybe, you're the biggest podcast. The first bit of CrossFit. CrossFit. Yeah. There's no better feeling, even across everything in CrossFit. So like

doing the open was class, like doing those workouts with class. But pulling a dead left record in competition is the single most like buzz. Yeah, like it could have cried, easily could have cried every time I've done it. That's awesome So I always want that again. I was watching a vlog. There's a blonde Freak from the north of England called Dylan Nelson Dylan if you're watching you know, I love you But watching strong but the fun yeah watching him get ready for a lift is the most electric thing I think I've ever seen in competition. Yeah, and he was talking on a vlog Where he was saying about how he gets to the point where he

feels like every hair, like on his body, he's just standing up and you can see he's one of those guys who he's not chill at all. He's like a bull. He's like someone's just taken, you know, like when they're in the, when they're doing corralling or whatever it is in like Texas and it's just in the thing and then they lift the gate and it's just in the thing, and then they lift the gate, and it just goes, pfft. Yeah.

This is, we competed with him, isn't it? Like, if you, he competed when I watched, when we went to go watch you in Ashenton, when you made a mess, there's no smelly salt. Oh yeah. Yeah, go on. There's another, so there's two other guys that I have,

so Owen Hubbard watching him about a bench, like record level stuff. He just gets his like I watch them take air pods out just throw them because he's in so much of a good way. I've watched him throw his iPhone just off the floor because he's in such a such a like a state. So really it's a drive-hard drive-hard drive-hard? Did he just break another yeah record? The thing that blows my mind about that is to have a 200 kilo of bench press and then still year after year get a better bench press. I feel like for the Americans that listen, there'll be more than 50% of people listening that are American.

Okay. It's to 440. of people listening that are American. And it's to 440. Yes, 440, exactly. But it's more like 280 or something. Oh yeah, it's 280. And I know what was the best thing about a world you just tagged, tagged Bret Gibbs in the post. I don't know whether you've seen that. So, is that? Him at Bret Gibbs is a very small New Zealand guy who is just as strong as Owen

and they like back and go back and forth with him. Is it amicable or really? Yeah, it's amicable. Okay, yeah. But like most people would be like, I'm so humbled and grateful and you just went like, where are you at? Yeah, bro.

You alright, mate? Another shout out, Reggie Fasher who is a CrossFit athlete from a Sunderland who competed at Filthy150 in Ireland the other week and came one place with Dan Bailey. And before he started, it was really like, it went round famous, it went round like the CrossFit community in the UK of Reggie Bain interviewed and him saying, like so who do you want to beat at this weekend? And all well, that Dan Bailey looks a bit past it doesn't he?

He's like a bag of fucking spanners now and then sure enough he plays the one plays the boob him but someone managed to get this little video clip of both of them so Redgie said this thing he's like called him out only like two people, like he hasn't done it to him and everyone's like oh let's see how you get on him against him and then they're walking off the floor they're in the same heat together walking off the floor and then someone managed to catch this video of the fist bumping and ready going like that and the number of oh, friend. The number of memes that were made of that was it was worth it.

Totally worth it. So scolbs, what's gone, what's a win apart from passing, when passing medicine is a huge, yeah, that has to be the win. Otherwise, it's been probably the hardest year of my life. Just because of this, such a bottleneck of total enormity of it all. Yeah, like from day one, I remember December 2018, I was like, are things are starting to to get a little bit out of control.

And I fell into 2019 and I still feel like, come, I'm like, scrambling to the start of the year. Because I listened to it and I did my homework. So what we discussed a lot was how we started the year. How did everyone start this year? I don't, in fact, I do remember what I did. You'll like it.

What did you do? Well, no one here, you remember what I did. You, you like it. What did you do? Well, no one here used to suppose. I did the, the propane goals process. Oh, no. On a mind no sheets. And how have actually achieved a lot of that? So like, it's good to know that, that, that has moved forward. But the whole time, it's felt just like, you know,

when you control falling. Yeah, not even controlled. You, you know, you, you just trip in the street and then you pretend to go for a little jog, but then that jog turns into a sprint and then you arms and you flame it. You do what that guy does on the video of the... Are you a cat? It's very like trying to kick and then stack his head on the kid. And he rilt spikes over his head like it's horrible. So what went bad this year then? Did you, did you have any fails? I think the whole, the whole lesson was just

not creating a bit of space between tasks and rather than just like diving into everything and just kind of frantically being behind the plates spinning. It's so, it's so two things. First one is I think massive respect for you for this year, spinning. It's so it's so two things. First one is, I think, massive respect for you for this year, man, it's been like watching it happens, been painful, like seeing someone, I don't, I can't convey to the listeners just how much stuff you try and do, but trying to do a job which is essentially

more than a full-time business, like a business that would bury most people whilst trying to do a degree which buries most students while trying to have like girlfriend bought two hours bought like one house managed another house sorted your mum's like you know what I mean. Well yeah bought three houses in kind of yeah and like all that so I think that's a good point and like we always hold ourselves to a higher standard, but I look at doctors now that have no other commitments and I think, oh, it looks so easy. It's what I say to the guys that work for us at Voodoo.

I'm like, in some of the boys, I'll start to say, hey man, my motivation for work might be waning a little. I mean, second year, third year, uni, starting to get really serious. I'm like, all right, man, but I'm telling you now, I'm fucking, I'm telling you what? You want to fuck a real shit? You've got to fuck a real shit. You've got to fuck a real shit. I'm telling you, if you just do university, university,

after having tasted what it's like to run a business whilst doing university, you are going to be bored out of your mind because you're going to free up all of this space, which sucks in nothing as opposed to freeing up all of this space to suck in something. Well, this is like what we were saying last time, that if we would, if all of us were to do university again, like we'd just absolutely smash it, and not because we're any more spa or competent or anything, but it's just like you would just know how to use it.

Absolutely, it's time for my leisure. I did end up like post-fin finals with a Twitch and my eyelid for about three months, two three months, like just ongoing Twitch and my eyelid. What does that mean? Do you know why that manifests? Fatigue, like just being like in a very... I get that. I get twitchy.

Me too. I just wondered if you knew. Oh, it's actually the endotherial function, this gland in your head, for the glands. The head gland, the head gland, personable. And so I think the big lesson, like both of you saw me go, like hospitalise myself, essentially a couple of years ago, from just not paying attention to fatigue management. Well, no, that was, that was not a joke. That was not a joke. But the, the giants were precipitated by being the dickhead. Icelandic weather.

Oh, yeah. And making us walk through. Starting in a taxi queue, just... Which is hilarious, because you're the only person out of that group who wore a coat was you. Me and Johnny went out in Iceland. In Iceland. You were both 25 kilos heavier than me as well.

At the mid-line. I nearly passed away. Pretty sure that I came pretty close to just endoclating. You're actually in heaven now. I was quite honest with you about it. The time I was like, you said, I'm not joking when I say I'm concerned about this. My welfare. Yeah. So the second thing is, for me, I've absolutely been reminded this year that self-care and

continuing to ensure your well-being is not a luxury, it's not a luxury, but it's also not like a savings account, it's a current account and you need to continue to deposit into it every single day. And the times when something that a quote from Paul Moore is self-care sooner or later becomes your number one priority, which I just think is so complete, like either sort your shit out, or you'll have to take it. It's like the like I'll do it on Monday, I'll do it on Monday, but with your health. It's so weird that health is just the most like, when it's good, you don't even notice it,

and then it's bad, you all do. All you want to think about. It's even less so than the health thing, because I think all of us have even your worst time you'd have trained once a week, probably. You'd have gotten and moved once a week, which is more than some people do. We're not doing the gyros, but yeah.

Yeah, but during like, it's pretty busy, it's fun. Yeah, you can't do it in the Gytus, but yeah, during like, it's pretty busy. Yeah, during it's just been on maintenance locally. It's been two to three times a week, but like nothing special, just background. But it's not just the what most people would consider, like the headlines, like, are you having enough water? Are you drinking, are you doing what?

What are you drinking? But it's just because the other day, I'm thinking, you do what, what are you going to do? But... Of course. It's just because the other day I was looking through a YouTube channel and I saw one of you sus training logs of him, deadlifting in a gym he used to train up and it's just the face. And just when I thought of what I pictured you sub-training, I just imagined that face. I think the first podcast we did with Chris, with the coffee and the drugs. It's what I love it. It's a face that I know that you could do now. It's it. No, it's it's only comes out under the strain. Yeah.

If you zoomed in on the, yeah, the squat video. The idea will be able to make that face appear. Then just loop it. Just here. It's the one when you also try and do like a double backflip or whatever isn't it? In gymnastics it's the Mr. Beanface. Oh yeah. So yeah, my point is that it's not just about the headlines, it's not just about like sleeping, eating, training, doing that stuff. It's like if I wasn't, if there was periods, extended periods, or I wasn't meditating,

extended periods where I wasn't journaling, wasn't doing a morning routine, and it comes back to bite you in the ass. It's like the first time that all of us learned that eight hours of sleep is quite a priority. And then when you go back to six and a half, you're like, oh my god, this is where I used to be. This is what life used to be like, and that's what life's always like. Well, if you were to say, like, imagine what it's like when there's dark mornings and dark nights and you're only getting six hours of sleep, but you're like, meditating with loads of caffeine.

How do you think you feel that like one in the afternoon? Like, the thought of that, it's just this like fabricated environment, like, sort of a very, a very anxious, But yeah, it's something I've, something one of my takeaways was, um, you, you create the good day of the bad day. So like, if you, if you're going through a day, feeling shit, feeling tired, feeling angry, demotivate, whatever, like you are just, you're responsible for that. And you're also responsible for the

day's where you're super productive or it's just the consistency with things that, like the on-ramp that creates that situation. It's just that it's on loan or it's like there's a delay isn't there? The sleep thing like because midnight you is like, it's like, oh, I'll be fine in the morning. And then 6am you is like, oh, I'm sick. Yeah, so yeah, I think that's such a good point. Like, I'm getting a handle much more on that now and I think through the bottleneck, things are... All of us have swam in and out of the deep part of this ocean,

right? Some of us, like, you do this a period this year where you hadn't meditated for ages or like you weren't meditating consistently enough, and you felt that, and then there was the same for me. But you get the phenomenon that you mentioned, which is like meditation then becomes not like a thing that's meant to improve your life,

and it's, you're a dickhead if you don't, and if you haven't done 10 minutes a day, because then you're lying in bed, you're getting flashbacks of like when you were like, eating a pack of crisps or doing something that, that wasn't wasted for seven minutes, and then you're like,. I'm doing it. So, one of the things definitely that I've focused on this

year, or that's been a big realization for me this year, is learning where the controllables and young controllables are and allowing those uncontrollables to sort of let go. And it is such a liberating feeling. So a good example, we do everything right with a particular club night launch and it goes really well. Great. We do everything right with a particular club night launch and it goes bad, like that's a shame, but what can we maybe look at doing? The effort doesn't change. And the same thing with the podcast, there's some episodes that I've part this year

that I was like, oh, that's on our episode and it's absolutely flown. And then the sun that poured my heart and soul into and thought it was amazing and it's just like done okay. That's absolutely yeah. The same with us as well. There's videos that fly and you're like, oh no, sleeping on the floor. Yeah, like why is that? I made a 531 review subcutter years ago. It's very little evident of it. And it's like 44,000 views against comments, most days. Like, it's going to be why your legs are long. Yeah, that's what I was told. It's really helpful. Yeah. You just wish you could go back and remake the video. Yeah, but it's too late now. And then you're like, well, I'm messing with Al,

can you like, what if I remake it? It doesn't do as well. But yeah, like, that was something that Brian meditation teacher said to me, because I was saying, I'll sit down to meditate in the morning and allocate 30 minutes to it. It's just a fucking shite session. So you're like, well, I could have just done some work in that time. What have I actually gained from that? And his thing was, don't judge the session, judge your approach to the session, so you made the time. did you deal with what was there with the the right attitude? It was good. If so box ticked. So that's the beautiful thing about Shinsen's approach to meditation for the people who don't know what we're talking about Shinsen, you're a meditation teacher,

slash master, slash probably one of the best known on the planet now, I suppose. Both me and Johnny are being coached by one of his students, Gakal Bryan, and the three elements of awareness, clarity, concentration and equanimity. The equanimity thing is so crucial, just allowing it's like, at a shit session, whatever, as he quotes it, there are no bad sits is what he says. Essentially,'s no wasted meditation. There are also no good sits. Yeah, I don't like thinking about that. Well, that is equanimity, though, isn't it? Yeah, but I don't think, you know, you wouldn't, I'll only use my words positive, but I'm still a slip towards negative. But yeah, so that, what else, I'm trying to think about something that's a little bit more

immediate and gratifying that I've done this year. What do you mean, just things you've done? Stop taking caffeine within the first 90 minutes of my day. Nice. And really, really got a taste for pint of water to big squirts of lemon juice and teaspoon of salt. Really, but in a pint of water, you may be out. Right. Just so salty. Well, like, yeah, I've done it. When I've done it, I spoon. I've done like a little salt. Really? But in a pint of water, you may be out. Right. Just so salty. Well, like when I've done it, I've done like a little salt.

Like in a spoon. Five grams of... That's a lot of salt. Five grams. Is that what a teaspoon is? A teaspoon of salt. Is a lot of salt. That's a lot of salt. I have it every day, I don't think it's a lot of salt. So like I've done... I used to have... Sorry, I'm ready to say how much salt of salt. So like I've done, I used to have, sorry. I've read so many. I've read so many.

I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many.

I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many.

I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many. I've read so many. It talks about the salt water element in the morning. So as we all would, when a claim is made, I was like, well, I can't not do it a correctness. So I did it for a while, but I would do it in that much water. I enjoy the taste. I'd say, well, I really enjoy the taste of it now.

Do you know that? Do you know that pink Himalayan sea salt isn't even from the Himalayan layers? It's from Pakistan. Does it matter? And it's in the rich, isn't it? Yeah. Anyway, it's in sea salt. Beautiful. I'll give it a little more. Well, you know, the flakes is in the box.

It's good on the steak, right? It's beautiful. So you have it cold water? Yeah, so it's from the fridge filtered. So apparently, and this is you're getting another step towards more world, climate will, it is warmer water in the morning is better. I'm not doing that. Okay, I prefer that. Because that would be ridiculous.

But that's how you make yourself sick if you, if you want salt water, water. Yeah, here's an interesting thing. If you've had something you should should you need to throw up. If I put glove, woolen glove, even the tip of the finger of a woolen glove in my mouth, I feel so. No, woolen gloves. What do you mean like a normal, like a picture of glove? Yeah, that's the good.

That's the good. That's the early experience that you've had. Like that's how like fetishes and phobias those things develop, but how huge gloves it is. What I'm, what do I say? I'm wearing gloves. Pick the shirt. I want to take the glove off. So I go, like that. And then...

Just immediately. And it's like... Is it the feeling of you going through the teeth? No, it's just there. It's just like... I'm just... I'm just... Alright, what the fuck is that? Because it was nothing mechanical about the experience that would mentally feel sick.

It's barely even. You're accidentally deep-throding, you're going, yeah, the whole Glovesdamer neck. No, it is literally between the tip of my teeth. And I have to, if someone would have seen me do it, I go like this. Your vomit stories are the best. The one of the guy who had the sympathy vomit, the... Yeah, when you were all throwing up and he walked fast and he threw up as well. That was so funny.

You know when you just wish you had a moment recording. It was the way he just like went. And then was like angry about it. Oh, so good. Tip of a glove. Try it. See if you get the same thing. Take gloves off.

Something about the texture, it's like, ming and dry. And then I'm going to get it to leave a couple of fibas on your head. Try it on your tip of your head. The thing for me, it's horrible feeling down the back of your head where you like, you hop onto a bit of fabric and pull it away from your teeth. Yeah, awful. What sort of fabric and put it away from your teeth. Yeah, awful. I wish you could sort of fabric. Any, I think cotton is quite bad.

You bite onto it and then pull it through your teeth. I don't think so. Like, yeah. Polic... Policiring, like, the white stuff that, like... Are you cooking? Oh, I should. Yeah.

Oh, oh, oh. My mum's got the thing about, like, filing a nail. So I'll just be like, sat with her and she'll start filing a nails Do we hit it? Yeah, it's so bizarre. It's such an unhelpful thing Yeah, what else from this year? So I'm just thinking about about sort of what's come well this year So I successful project. Yeah, and modern wisdom is absolutely flown In podcast podcast done good you you you broke the two million 1.3 million now, so we broken one million downloads, which is great

we set means VMD set a target for plays and for subs Smash the target for plays subs is lagging a little but Still to subscribe as matter, so the reason that it mattered the reason that I considered it as a metric to be plays, subs is lagging a little, but still... Just subscribers matter. So the reason that it mattered, the reason that I considered it as a metric to be bothered

about was just that having subs on YouTube allows you to then further push more content that is going to get more of a head start, right? But it would appear that the audio platform this year is absolutely banged. So again, thanks a lot. So the audio platform this year is absolutely bound. So again, thank you for the audio over video. Yeah, I mean, yeah, we've got some really big shout outs on audio, like all breaks shouted out the audio version, the podcast, Jordan Peterson, shouted out, Michaela on Jordan's podcast, shout out the iTunes. So that really drove a lot of traffic, which was great.

But the YouTube stuff still still flying, man. So we'll do some special stuff in the new year, which we'll be exciting. About this time last year, we were doing the first modern wisdom life. Maybe a bit early in the summer. Yeah, we were. When we did it for a... A big radio station. It's fine, don't mind.

It'll be listening. And then mind. It'll be listening, I'm dear, you'll be listening. Okay. And then we told a room full of people whose income relies on radio that radio is dead. Yeah. Sorry. I wonder whether they've started a podcast. I was worried about the cost, wasn't it Blastin?

I mean, you know, for a national radio show with lots of funding, obviously, the hosting fee is a real concern. Well, it's 30 dollars. Yeah, that's like, I'll be like 25 quid. Oh, 20, yeah. That's a lot of you serious. A pound every single day. Where have you traveled to this year? That'd be cool to hear where you've gone.

So I spent my... So this was the other thing I was thinking about. This is the last one of these I'll do in my 20s. Oh shit man. So I spent my 29th birthday in Auschwitz Birkenau. Shoot you did yeah. Yeah. Very morbid. Yeah. But brilliant kills for crack out is brilliant Auschwitz and I obviously it feels wrong saying that brilliant, but it's a hell of an experience. So, as a salt mine's in crack out, so I went to crack out, I went to Santorini.

You waited in a line to get a photo, didn't you, if you were in Santorini? Yeah, from a hashtag blessed. Ah, best life. I'm so fucking sick of that shit. The Instagram, yeah. I'm quite pleased that Instagram are moving in the direction where it feels like they've kind of clocked it and they're making some changes.

Let's just go through this with someone the other day, the fact that likes are now no longer being shown. It's just single person and others like this post. Right. That's getting rolled out quite heavily across the UK now. I think if someone has something to share, like something that's interesting or funny or valuable, find, but like when it's just photos of people in Santa Rini,

and the photo gets loads of traction because it's like a certain angle. Did we talk about this last time with like, people that will order a meal for two in a restaurant and then take a photo of the table, leave, and not eat really, not even meal. This was happening, so in Thailand, like, and we were in this pool,

at the top of it, out in like a secluded place, nice hotel, outside, outdoor pool with, you know, whether edge just drops off to the infinity pool. Yeah, and like a forest behind it, you know, with the edge, just drops off to the infinity pool. Yeah, and like a forest behind it, you see temples in the background. And me and my girlfriend were just enjoying the pool, like just having a swim and stuff, drinking a coconut with a thing. And we saw a couple after couple come into the pool. Boyfriend fully dressed, but with like a big DSLR thing and girlfriend like they'd be full makeup, hair done, heels, like what looks like a really expensive swimsuit with little like shoulder pads and they'd come over and sit on the side of the pool and like and like pose and stuff like and do like an hour's photo shoot and then leave and you'll be like are you

guys gonna get into the pool or enjoy around it? And it just happens so consistently on the south coast of sorry on the West Coast of Gilly T Sunsetting one of the most beautiful picturesque islands on the planet probably just outside of Bali and There is you'll have seen those swings those sunset swings. They're in the middle of the ocean Like and people sit on them. It's usually got like it's like a kind of Rustic wooden swing type thing anyway. It's on there. I know I'm watching Hashtag boyfriends of Instagram get down with this Chinese guy who's there who's taking photos for his girlfriend Who wants a good photo and what she wants is as much reflection off the water as is possible?

So what he's had to do is get down. He's lowering himself down further and further. And the water is this high, but the phone needs to be up, but he can be lower. So every so often, he's taking this wave in the face, like as he's trying to get this photo, I was just thinking the sacrifices that he makes. And it was like everyone was trying to out extra everyone else. I mean, this is coming from the guy who did like a legless rope climb to get to the top of it so that I was like at the very very top that was my photo. But then a guy everyone was taking photos everyone was looking cool and a local guy just rode past on a horse took the horse out into the middle of

the water and stood on the horse. You're from the next to everyone? I was just thinking, what a way to shit on everyone's advantage because you think that you're under swing. I got a horse. That is class. Well, I went up to a few of the couples when we were out because there'd be the boyfriend taking photos of the girl and stuff. I would go over and be like, do you want me to get a shot of you both? And that would always be like, oh no, it's okay.

It's like, oh okay, obviously you don't want a... You've shown the light on a weird, weird situation. You know, it's just having a photo to commemorate the fact that you went to this place together. No. Just for the gram. You just want individual photos. So where did you go this year? So Budapest on, I think on Johnny's recommendation,

or like went to the place, speaking of a fact, just to mention, I spoke to someone this week who said to me that they got a dog because I said to get a dog. So we should be careful. We think that we should. Budapest. It's average. I thought it was all right. It's like standard issue, European city. Has he got direct flights from the UK? Yeah. It's average. I thought it was all right. It's like standard issue European city Has he got direct flights from the UK? Yeah, that's why this any as soon as anyway gets direct flights from the UK to fucked It's really cool stuff, but it's just stagdues. It's just immediately as soon as you can go to Anywhere if you need to do a connecting flight If I like 100 quid stagdues. Yeah, I mean, Budapest wasn't very staggy. It was quite cultural Europe, but like

the one thing I did find and this is like it's the equivalent of Iceland. Everything is nine and a half thousand pounds is that everything in Budapest is 10 minute walk away on Google maps but feels like 40 minute walk. Really? Like any distance between any two points in the city is like it's a miracle is 10 minute walk, but it's really far. So that's quite good. Similar kind of sobering experience going to the Jewish museum in the synagogue where you just see mass graves and things. Do you go to the baths? Yeah. You get your dick out. Absolutely. Great baths. It wasn't a naked one, just a- But did you get your dick out? Just in general. At some point during the holiday I had to, yeah, to- I was a load of times.

Twice a day, probably at least twice a day. At least twice a day. Always indoors, always legal. Legal situation, yeah. I thought the baths were awful. Did you get your dick out? I will have done, yeah. With the baths?

Not in the baths, not with other people. Did you just go to one bath? Yeah. I went there a few. I went trying to swim better than others, definitely. But you know, you know, when you're getting changed in a swimming pool and there's the sort of the cold stagnant water in the center that you sort of kill, you know, I'm trying to step in. The baths, the whole bath is just fat like that. Yeah, that's bad. Just a bit like, and it's not the bag. A large part and it's about the leg. A lot of parts of it, it's about the leg. Like I said, so Budapest and just came back from Barcelona, which is beautiful. Did he go to the Sagrada Familia?

Yeah, the Sucking Island, man. Gaudi is a monster. Like, he, so for anyone that doesn't know, he's the architect and artist, designer of a lot of buildings around Barcelona and it seems like he's just so many of them and each one is so intricate, it looks like at least like a decade of work. You're just thinking how has he pumped out so much output and then all the designs are very fluid and asymmetrical and kind of flowing looking buildings that just look so out of context with anything else. He's done the major cathedral

which is bigger than you think from the pictures. You'd imagine him giving the plan to the builders and they're just like, oh, Gaudy man. Fuck you. Tell them it. It couldn't have just been a bit too bad for us, could it? How was supposed to make this? No, Rob. We're going to have to... Rob's like it. Everything's going to have to be knocked on the head. He's brought the planzit. You're not gonna believe it. Do not, I repeat, do not ring me. Gowdy, mate, honestly, I'm fucking sick of you.

You believe you're wrong, mate, what I said, not to. Yeah. So Barcelona, there's a lot of mugging there, isn't it? Yeah, so a lot of pick pockets mugging, so actually it's transitioned, used to be very pick pockety, and now it's gone to, she's so raised. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,, excuse me, I'm looking for this, okay, never mind, thank you. You were like, stuff like that.

Now it's just gone to fall on just like, your phone. And like, so a friend of mine who I went to visit got beaten up. So she got like a black eye and bruised head for like a rubbish phone. And so it's just become flicker. It's interesting that we got murdered

on the street we were staying on on the night we were there. What the fuck? Jesus Christ. So I think there was a murder on the night that we, why are you were there? Yeah, where you were. Yeah, on the street. It wasn't even me.

And you didn't do the murder. I didn't, I didn't do the murder or you'd see the murder. You didn't see the murder. So it didn't make news because it was, it was a gang thing and like they were like, oh, well, they're probably worth. First person on the list is the Arab that was staying just around the colony.

They don't want to do that, because they don't want to get them. Oh, the best thing was in the airport. They kept releasing this announcement that was like, Will Muhammad Abbajaya, please go to security immediately. I'm not bothered. Will Muhammad Abbajaya, and you're like, it's spelled why you asked me. For the 10 times.

Working out. So I went to Barcelona for a wedding, this, the start of this summer. And one of the guys that we, though, it doesn't usually drink had a little bit too much to drink at the wedding. Then of this summer and one of the guys that we're there with doesn't usually drink had a little bit too much to drink at the wedding. Then walking through the center of Barcelona after we've been up to this beautiful castle had this wonderful day, got the bus back, a bus stop to soften, you just went for a bit of a wander, who's staying at an Airbnb. He woke up a few hours later seven in the morning with in Barcelona train station actually to find that his phone wallet and shoes have been stolen. They're taking his shoes down. And then so he then walked around for the next few hours in his brand new pair of Ralph Lauren socks just walking around and he's a bearded guy

wearing like a kind of dish with like obviously disheveled wedding suit, which is just in Barcelona, which has got a lot of homeless, just the quintessential homeless man look, like long beard, really odd outfit, like full suit and tie, no shoes, like Ralph Lauren socks now with holes in. So people like him a couple coins and stuff. But it was desperately trying to say, can I borrow your phone? But in the mugging, the mugging and robbery capital of Europe, like that was never gonna happen. And then because he wasn't staying in a hotel,

he couldn't ask where the hotel was because he didn't know the address of the Airbnb off by heart. So he's just walking around Barcelona with none of his possessions as hangover and sort of existential crisis slowly begins to cessate. The thief really goosed in there. And it makes you... I mean, they're not as hard, how hopeless we are when we don't have...

It's literally what he said. It's this oracle that connects us to everything else. I always feel whenever I go somewhere, if I have my wallet in my phone, I can just... Deal with anything. Like anything that happened, you can buy you way out of it. Yeah. Depending on the currency or like, it would be robbed. This was the first holiday I've done with a new phone, and therefore I don't have a little book book. So I decided not to bring any cards, no cash,

just everything was Apple Pay, and it felt lovely to just tap around. It's a bit, it feels a bit like if it goes wrong. It's a really fucked, right? Because then you've just got no make means of payment. Because you've hinged all of your risk on that. I've had scenarios where I've gone to use Apple Pay and it's not, it's just not worth.

Yeah, interesting. And then the Spanish police come after you. Yeah. I mean, you've had a run under the sp... You've both had run-ends with Spanish police come after you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You've had a run-on with the Spani- I mean, you've both had run-ons with Spanish police. I have, yeah. I feel like mine wasn't my fault. It was your lawyer friend who, yeah.

I feel like you, my, my, very much was your fault. I was asleep on the Central Reservation of Tenerife's largest motorway, yeah. I'd never fun. I didn't actually know that. It wasn't it. It was just a bad day.

It was a bad, it was very, very bad day. It was a very, very bad day. So I've done, this is probably the year I've done the single most amount of traveling. Wow. I've ever done. So I did America. I'll try and go through it. So I did Rome for my birthday, which was one of the best trips I've ever done. Like just so amazing. Three, no four days in Rome and just overwhelmed

with Colosseum and Rome for the day one. like just so amazing three, no four days in Rome and just overwhelmed with Colosseum and Roman Forum Day 1, Vatican and Cysteen Chapel Day 2 and Pompeii Day 3, like what a way to just all of this. Did you spill in espresso or something? I've got this story ahead of me. Yeah, and so the first thing I did I was looking like just totally befuddled by the romance that is Rome looking out of the window as I put a sugar into my espresso and was just stirring it and looking at just how beautiful everything was, stirring it, stirring it, and looked back to see there was no espresso left in the cup, barely any espresso on the saucer and the glass counter upon which it was resting where all of the pastries and stuff were behind it,

it just smeared itself off that. The owner was just looking at me like this. Oh no. I was like, could I have another respresso please? That was all I could think. But while I did that in the time, it took me to stir that and have all of it come out, a man came in, bought a glass of red wine, finished it, and went back to work.

There's that Italy's brilliant. So yeah, it's... They're just drinking such a paste way, don't they? I don't believe the first thing he said was kind of another espresso. I think that probably says, like, sorry, but I also said, like, you know, it was his face. It's a very good thing to think. I mean, to me, you can come in and start throwing it around. Sorry, I just see a feces on the wall.

I'm just still all of your time. Yeah, beautiful architecture. Anyway, so Rome, Great, LA and Boston, so David's, Dr. David's in Claire, awesome, then went back and went to Elon Musk. Elon Musk, yeah. Oh yeah. He lived, he lived some of the air, Elon Musk, lived, went to New York for a stag-do, awesome, went to Ibiza for

another stag-do, that was good. Went to Barcelona for that wedding, then did road trip across America to 2000 miles in 10 days. That was cool. More rumored. Didn't do rumored that time, did rumored in February, didn't do rock. And then, Stuma Guild. Stuma Guild Canada for the first time, and then went to Bali, most recent. Stayed with Shoomigil. So, Shoomigil, yeah.

Of all the things you've done, that was pretty crazy. Went on as yacht. It was a boat. It was a boat. It can still be a yacht. Like yachts don't have to be big. But yeah, I think, you know, in trying to create some sort of a sense of what people that are listening

who maybe aren't doing any formal gratitude or aren't doing end-of-year reviews. I think what we're trying to do here is just take stock of what's happened in the last year. You know, let what's gone well, what's gone bad. So if you're not careful, life does just be this treadmill of task arises. You get them all out, you whack it, it goes away, next task arises, mullet, whack, and you just keep on going and then before you know it, yeah, you just ruthlessly index these experiences and never actually enjoyed reflecting on it. It's like just endlessly painting, but then never stepping back to look at the painting,

isn't it? Like you spend all your life trying to achieve things and you just die. isn't it? Like you spend all your life trying to achieve things and you just die. But if you just, if you, if you've ever like, go, oh, shit, I think that's been a easy try to achieve. I did that. Isn't that cool? Right. Next thing. Um, right. Just next thing. Next thing. Oh, my God. Oh, I'm dead. Yeah. Bollocks. Have you, um, have you had any mind shifts or any sort of lessons this year, or any concepts that you've learned that have been a big sort of frame shift for you. If you don't, I've got my one, which I think is probably one of my biggest room this year. So I've written down five here. They're quick, some of them are completely

irrelevant. You create good days and bad days. If it doesn't happen, first thing, it very rarely happens. So that applies to like the days you wake doesn't happen first thing, it very rarely happens. So that applies to the days you wake up and you're like, I really should meditate like, wait, last night. I opened my phone to try and look at some myself and the first thing that came up was to meet your bunhole, sent from Chris.

So each spinach is what it is. You've won the morning, win the days of my self. Yeah, so that applies to things like so, I'm back to training in the morning because I've days, Masks. Yeah, so that applies to things like so, I'm back to training in the morning, because I've realized that like, when I tell myself, I'll try to, right, I'll train at 6 p.m. promise, should never do, unless there's a massive accountability.

That's a great thing about CrossFit, instantly. Or work, so like just do the thing that has to be done today. Just do that first. Get it done. This is a marketing thing. Sales is a process not an event. People think that it's an event or like a thing that they've did, I've did. I think they've done the cause to sale. It's what happened

prior to that, the cause to sale. Who, not how, to solve a problem. So this year I've invested myself, not under the propane umbrella, because those numbers are making more sick than putting the glove in your mouth. The most money personally in coaching. So I've worked with the most coaches for my own stuff. So like, if you're trying to get better at something or trying to achieve stuff, just, which is the next thing, model consistent examples of where you wanna be. So not someone who's like,

where you're wanting it to be, and there's been that for a bit, but someone who's like consistently doing the thing that you're trying to get to, just pay them to learn how. So always asking, instead of just grinding away and like, what book can I read, what course can I do, how can I figure this out myself? Just who's doing it? And I'll just

pay him work with them. Life is short, just get the answers. I think that's such a fucking good heuristic and that was one that came to me kind of last year, I think Eliza still haven't fully implemented it. That being able to short cut all of the self-direction, self-accountability questioning, is this the right, should I do XYZ? It's like just to ask the person, like if you want to know the best way to fix you back, drive to Canada and go to the supermarket and go to the supermarket. Just to keep you from going to the supermarket.

Just to keep you from going to the supermarket and go to the supermarket. Yeah. Like, so many people, man. Like I think we've all been guilty of this, like you spend so long trying to figure something out yourself. Like in your own, whatever it is, and you might not even be necessarily that aware of it, but like people read books and things that do courses and things rather than just paying a bit more and getting someone who's really experienced in that area to give you some customer to help on that thing. So I tried with meditation for years to figure it out myself and just chatting to someone who, and I know there's no qualification level of expertise necessarily, but just paying for some formal help.

So I think there's two things that for me have struck this year, there's a lesson that I'll get on to in a second, but two of the big things is what I'm missing most and what many people that are in this kind of knowledge work, self-directed world of personal development might be struggling with the two things that I think are most important, the direction and accountability. It's like if you know what you need to do and you have someone who will tell you often that if you don't do it and encourage you if you do, 90% of the work's done for you. What do I need to do? And why do I need to do it essentially or what's the pain of it?

So you're on the reason. Yeah. It's a great point. And that's the value of a coach, isn't it, rather than just the information. I think most people, if they're just given the information, they won't execute unless there is accountability, objectivity and personalization. Yeah. And so, although there's huge untapped potential of just getting a book on something,

like Tim Ferriss says, like most of the time, if you want to become a relative expert in a certain field compared to everyone else, you just read a book on it or read like two or three books on it, and suddenly you know more than 99. Leap throat, yeah. Yeah, and that is usually very helpful, but if you're trying to solve a specific problem, it may be more useful or quicker to get a coach, to diagnose, identify your specific issues. Even if at the end of the day they just recommend you a book, it'll be a book that is relevant to your problem.

Well, the problem is no longer a lack of information. The problem today is which information, like which information should you listen to and should you not listen to this disgusting amount of information? Yeah, Neval's Neval's synopsis on the Jorogun podcast was all of the problems that we have now are problems of abundance and obscurity. Yeah, everything. Because it's too much food. Too much stimulus.

It's hard breaking to think like you have this thing you're desperately trying to do and you spend a year just following the wrong advice. The wrong advice is. Can you please give me a round of applause? Our misfortune, I get, was right all the time. Like on the day of the competition. I'll give them the wrong advice. Is everyone seeing that question?

Yeah, yeah, it was. So I want to do your lesson of the year and the mine, and then I want to do like top three books, each top three podcasts, each top three YouTube videos, each just whatever, whatever does come to mind. So I'll give you a little bit of time to have a think.

But any lesson from this year, any sort of frame shift or new concept that you brought in I think you like it's all very similar like the the coaching thing I've also just spent a lot on just investing in myself, but I think also just taking time to Periodize the things that you want to improve in your life and Take space between each one so Trying to achieve everything all at once. So I heard something today that's from Simovans actually where he says,

refers to some neuroscience research, I feel like he may have been kind of approximately over the years. But basically said like when you have goal A and action A, you sit and you do goal A with action A until you achieve it. When you have goal A and goal B and you have action A and action B, your brain dedicates more resource to the switching between the tasks than it does to following either of those tasks. And we're just not very good at trying to do two things at once, whether that's on a micro or a micro scale. So we know on a micro scale, like, it's why we're just not very good at trying to do two things at once, whether that's on a micro or a micro scale. So we know on a micro scale, like, it's why we're also should be found in Pomodoro's,

and it's the best way to just say, like, okay, I'm just going to do this one thing, to the exclusion of everything else, rather than, like, feel the background guilt of it, but I'm not doing that other thing. So I'm going to just do a little bit of that other one while I'm, and like, I still always fall into the trap of not doing that other thing. So I'm going to do a little bit of that other one while I'm and like I still always fall into the the trap of not doing that. But so there's there's that and then on a larger scale over the year, I think like imagine if 2020 was

12 new habits rather than start of day one 2020 to try and do all 12 habits at once, rather than naming habit one for January and then running it in the background, blasting cruise. I think the thing attached to that is when you don't, so the problem I have with doing like a yearly review is remembering all the things that have happened. There will be stuff that I've done and achieved that I don't even didn't really mention. Like, what I was gonna say before was I did.

Because you've been painting the wall. Painting the picture here. Yeah. I did three months of not drinking at the start of the year. Come on, let's leave it on. Completely forgotten about it. Massive achievement. So like, the 12 habits thing,

just keep a record of it somewhere. Mm-hmm. Cause they plan it out at the start of the year. Yeah, just keep a record of it somewhere. Cause they plan out the start of the year. Yeah, especially people with like our view, like you're always pushing it, achieve things, aren't you? So if you just forget that you've done them, what was the point in doing them? Yeah. Yeah, I think so for next year, one of the things I've jumped ahead,

but next year, one of the things I'm going to have to learn to do is to say no to a lot more. I've spread myself too thin this year and having spent a little bit of time with Chris Spark, that I did that podcast with, that behind the forcing function, top 20 online poker players on the planet, and a absolute mother fucker of a productivity expert. I'm spread so thin, I'm never going to become amazing at any one thing. And then there's some sort of synergistic relationship between much of the stuff that I'm doing, which there isn't sufficiently to warrant it. I need to make a decision on what it is that I want to do.

What is it that I want to do? So 2020 for me, I think will be the year of saying no to a lot more saying yes to a lot more stuff that I need to like social Engagements which will be enabled by saying no to more work engagements and stuff like that I think one of the big Concepts that I've learned this year, which I've really really appreciate was Laura van der Kam's time management thing Which is talking about how memories are made. And I think this is so fundamental, fundamental, that everybody, everyone should be taught, everyone should know it. That everyone's experience of the passage of time happens that precisely the same speed, even if you're traveling at close to the speed of like your

experience of the passage of time is exactly the same as mine now or if you're a child or if you're eight years old or whatever it is the passage of time is one of the constants that's not going to change for you. So when people say I wish I had more time because they can play in that the years, where's the year gone? Do you know it's nearly 2020? Are you guys from all around? Can you believe it? Like it feels like it was only Christmas yesterday. And the reason that that happens is got nothing to do with the passage of time and everything to do with your memory of the passage of time. So if you think about the way you have the future self,

which is the person who anticipates about what's going to go on, you have the remembering self, which is the person that remembers what's happened and you have the present self, which is the experience that the person that's experiencing the thing right now. The experiencing self is the most fleeting of those. The anticipating self tends to be the next longest because you only know so far into the future. And the remembering self is essentially infinite. So when people say, I wish I had more time, what they mean is I wish I had more memories because memories are like little lines, little individual blocks that allow you to expand out that experience, the passage of time. So to the people that are listening,

if you think about the route that you take to work or your drive to work, ask you to remember your drive to work this year, it's condensed down, perhaps several hundred hours of travel into one memory. Single memory of you doing that, or you're drive to the gym, unless there was one time where something specifically different happened, car crash, a particular phone call, like you were elated for some reason, your brain just condenses it down down and the rule to use is that your brain works well with novelty or intensity. Those are two of the things that you can do to ensure that your memories are increased. And that's why I can't remember, Belly, and you have my drives to the

work or to work on the gym this year, but I can remember the name of the guy who put us on the boat in Africa over a year and a half ago, and I can remember the book that he was reading, and I can remember the shoes that he had on, because it was both novelty and the intensity and that. So if you want to make time in the passage of your life, feel like it is moving more slowly, then you need to first off, try and vary what you are doing. You need to allow yourself to become invested emotionally to actually indulge yourself in the present moment. And then once it's happened, you need to allow yourself to become invested emotionally to actually indulge yourself in the present moment. And then once it's happened, you need to remember it. You need to think about it. Because the bizarre thing is, when you're experiencing, the experiencing self and the anticipating self, because they want it to happen.

But the present self's like fucks it. The other thing as well is, the present self always picks out the discomfort. It's such an arsehole. So let's say that I'm watching this beautiful sunset on Gilly T, but I've got a little bit sand between my toes and it's slightly irritating and it just takes the edge off.

But when I remember, I don't remember the sand between my toes, but I do remember the beauty. So it's like you need to kind of almost use your experiences as an investment for yourself in the future. So I look, I'm going to do this thing because in the future, when I think about me doing it, I'm going to enjoy it and I'm going to be proud of it and I'm going to do this.

And that frame shift for me this year's been been a real big one. So seek variety and intense experience. Yep, absolutely. Without taking the piss. So don't drive to the gym seek variety and intense experience. Yep, absolutely. Without taking the piss. So like don't like drive to the gym, dressers must have a lobby. Yeah. Well don't take it. You'd remember that though. There's certain certain things you could stick that in if you stuck your epiphenon you'd fucking remember. How many, is that a problem? I don't know if I did that with that, but I have to do the hospital. I bet you'd lift up, you'd pull that 317 deadlift you're

after. You have to go to hospital. You have to go to the hospital. You can't use what about the day before? Can't use epic health. Find the day before but I'm not sure it would help. Yeah, not day before. But I don't know if you just took it, yeah, probably. Yeah, but just to be safe. I mean, it's a reaction you have to go to hospital because you have to depend where it's off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just mean now, just for fun. Yeah, I'd rather go to any. What if you had that peanut?

Well, I just don't. That's the thing, Faradah. That's the lesson. Yeah, the final point on that is there is a tradeoff that you need to make between efficiency and novelty. So for instance, one of the things that Gretchen Ruben suggests to increase novelty is to every so often walk a different route to work or drive a different route to work, but there's only so far you can take that. I'm going to drive out to the coast to go to Jesmond. So you know

there's a tradeoff that you need to make. It helps the Egyptian government are after you as well to take different routes to work. Yeah, and then if you do this, when you walk in past the cameras, yeah. Because it's her arm. Is that a scurvy manifesto? If you do that when you want to buy bleach, you just have 12 bottles of bleach please. Right. Is that my phone? Top few, anything that you've either read, article podcast, book, YouTube video, anything up to it. Top few, anything's that you've either read, article, podcast, book, YouTube video,

anything come to mind. You know what I struggle with this is getting it in the year. You know what I'm saying last year? If it's any thing that just comes to mind, because it can't be next year, because it hasn't happened. That's true.

It cannot be in the future. That's the one thing we can be sure of. So video, Anton Creole's five principles behind the ten rules for financial success that I've watched that for the third time around this year, new things come out of it each time. Lesson, something from both of you actually kind of emerged which was Johnny's suggestion, I think at the end of last year's review, was have more dinners with friends and yours of just checking with friends. I think at the end of last year's review was have more dinners with friends and yours of just checking with friends. I think I've realised this year when I've been in a mad whirlwind that you end up taking

friends and family for granted or not checking in with them or not being in touch with them. And I was kind of working up by this just yesterday because my mom was going past the hospital, popped in, came to our busier for a cup of tea and she was tearful that I didn't send a picture of my trip to Barcelona and I realised how much that matters to her because she'd got a picture from my girlfriend's mom and I think just like, like, I was like, oh, damn it. Yeah. Because, and that was a real like, oh man, I really need to just like, obviously that matters a lot more to her and thinking those terms a bit more.

So yeah, that's good. Johnny, you've just been scrolling what we got. So I look through all my audio books, can't find anything. I listen to some terrible books that's in listen to some average ones. So my I've got Apple. Kemi. The Avicio documentary. Alright yeah yeah yeah. The reason for that is so I don't think you don't like Vicio do. The music wise I was not. So I really like his music. I don't think you don't like VGD. The music wise, I was not. So I really like his music.

Samsung have just put on YouTube a trippy concert in 4K, live, brilliant. Like Tidal was not. Pretty intense. Anyway, so the documentary is like lead. Also, they publicly say it in commit suicide, but the concert is donated to mental health awareness. So I think it was an overdose, I think it was a drug overdose. Was it like accidental? Right. He meant to kill himself. Oh, right. I've read something that he

slits his wrist with a wine bottle. But anyway, I'd like to say it's not suicide if you did that. But there's only been like a really very statement by his family. But anyway, the documentary is about him and him managing his mental success. So like, he has what probably any like mid-20s guy is in some way aspiring to in like abundance across the board of the stuff that he has. And in the documentary, he's pretty intensely unhappy about it. What's the problem with problem? I think it all just is a bit too much for him. Like he gets pancreatitis from drinking, it doesn't like the performing because it's too stressful and there's too much going on, too many things to manage, the pressure from the fans and all that sort of stuff, and he's a perfectionist with the music. So it's just this, I watched

it and I was like, really moved by watching it because if you think about the things that you're doing most of the time, it's the pursuit of one of the things that he has in excess and he's there and hated it because it's the self-care thing, like it's a self-care thing and also like it's a self-care thing and also realizing that like probably all he wants is to be someone who isn't him. Like all he wants is to be someone who is designed to be there. So just an interesting like perspective really really because like because he's like similar age he's a bit introverted. It was just what I should have fucking fuck? What do you think it feels? I don't know.

I think it doesn't say a large really one. I think for some of it, it seems like he just wants to be left alone and normal. Yeah, and like he's there because he's really good at craft. And then, isn't it bizarre that you can have someone who is perhaps like super overqualified in terms of talent to be able to get themselves to a particular place But doesn't have the character to keep themselves there

There was a documentary about that ages ago like some genetically Is like either genetically engineered or like a genetically selected World's smartest boy, okay, and he was born with it was born to be selected for the highest IQ and they were interviewing him. And he was like, I'm not really interested in doing and I just want to have a nice life. And everyone was like, oh, come on, like you should, like, memory competition. Yeah, and he's like, oh, physics.

Yeah, and he's like, podcasts. Johnny, any podcasts come to mind? Other than of course, pro-pen fitness, how to start your online business and one of wisdom. That was a really good one. The hard being online coach. Bangin. No, non-common of mind. I'm going to drop in. Navarre, Ravakant, and Joe Rogan. Very good.

Fuck. Because he had two appearances. Just one. He said he's not doing any guest appearances for the foreseeable future. Wow. If you haven't listened to it, it might not be up your street, but if you want the two and a bit hours of probably the densest wisdom that you're going to get from someone, Naval Rava Count and Joe Rogan was great. Sam Harris and Joe Rogan at the start of the year was also fantastic. I'm trying to think about what I've gone back and listened to.

So, you know, well, this is making me think, is I need to keep a log of this stuff. In the things that happen, that are great. And little things that I watch, or listen to, or whatever, that are great. Three great things that happen to me today, but with a six minute. I mean, condensed, like, that I could just scroll through now.

Do you use day one? The app one? I do but not for this. Yeah, for like momentous things or mind serious. It's password protected. I don't need to pass. I don't need to pass word protect my podcast recommendation. But that yeah, that was good. I can't remember much of the chasing excellence. It's a good book. Chasing excellence was it? Digital minimalism was this year. Atomic habits, book of the chasing excellence. It's a good book. Chasing excellence was it? Did you have minimalism this year? Atomic Habits, book of the year, that was last year. I read it this year.

Right. Digital minimalism, I wasn't so, I wasn't so excited. I think it's a great, it's an important message. It's good. Because none of us did it. Like we, but it all read it. Oh, that's not still there. Kyle, when he writes just comes across a tiny bit whiny.

Do you not think it's just a little, he's such a contrarian when it comes to, it's a perfect world of, you should just be able to do this. And I'm aware that there are contingencies in some of the things that he puts across, but there's just, it feels to me like there's not enough of a realistic understanding of how challenging this is going to be. So that, yeah. So like it's an important message and some good concept, but I think the unfortunate truth of it is like a lot of us are so hard, why it emotionally to these things that

just going, all right. Just drop it. Not anymore. It's very hard to do I know one guy who did and it's Can't hurt me by David Goggins really struggle with that did you listen or he read some halfway through but it's 13 hours long So he podcasts in between it, right? Yeah, so it's like a yeah, and you got the book as well you've got the book. I know it's just like David Goggins is it is obviously a monster but just the the the message is a

bit repetitive which is one of those books that's one thing that doesn't need to be a book and they've just like I think you need need exposure to the idea because the idea is like testing limits of you, of like what you think your limit is and all sorts of stuff. The best thing actually, which is like two minutes long, is a video by on Jocker Willings channel, if you go on to his channel. Good, good, that's a brilliant video. Good, that's a great video.

School of Light, maybe seals, you can't argue with him, true, because he'll fuck you up. Good, we know. If you read his book, Jocko. Extrae ownership. Again, half. Similar thing. Okay. Alchemy by Rory Sutherland came out this year. That was a good, fairly good writer. Does he read it? Yeah, of course. That's it. I'm Simon. I mean, this was last year, but the order of time by Kala Revelli, that was fairly good.

Waking up by Sam Harris, I must have listened to it to another two times this year, which was great. The Great Mental Models by Shane Parish, that was fantastic. Mindfulness in plain English, that was your suggestion. That's a really good book. What else? What was that noise there? That was this is audible.

This is audible. Alright, accidentally pressed on super intelligence. Fuck. Million, million, million, million. Yes. I think that's probably what I've got bags and bags of credits left on audible, because I've just not,

I listen to the power of now again by Eckhart Tully. It's very good. Fuck man. Yeah, it was ahead of his time, wasn't it? Really ahead of its time. Yeah, super, super fucking like. He's just cuttingly clear with his message and he's legit as well.

I feel like if he was in this room now, it would all be asleep. Yeah, he is very legit. Anyway, final thought, anything that you wanna get across to the humans of the interwebs before we Round off this year and this Christmas. You know what I would like to know what everyone's plans are for 2020

What do you mean by plans? What's the purpose of it? What for the people watching? What are their wins, fails and goals for In the comment team in 2020. Yep. There we go. So on YouTube, put below what your best win was, what your biggest fail was, and one goal that you want to achieve for next year. A good, really, really cool. A good question to consider is in December 2020, what would have to have happened for you to have been content with the year, rather than thinking like, what are my goals? Just think what would be a nice scenario for me? Like, what would I look back?

I don't know, I don't know, I can't ask my question. That is the biggest hot potato possible. The ease of the round of the year, with a large, jack-happet taste. I've even finished like, saying the thing, and then when it came out, I was like, I was like, what's the answer? I've butted it, cheese, a little bit of tuna,

beans as well, hot bean sauce, hot bean sauce, everywhere, and just a nut garnish. And a sausage for this. For the fish. For the fish, for the fish. For the fish, for the fish. For the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish,

for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for

the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish, for the fish is I posted a video on LinkedIn, a trailer, and of all of the things someone could have commented with, you know, this work that we've put in and we've tried to upload this beautiful explanatory video, someone just commented and said, is that the guy that was on point? Let's last night. Really? Someone just couldn't show his a group chat. So I did a sales call with a guy who's just joined one of our programs and he got off the

sales call with me, signed up for the program. I then had this first coaching call the next day and he was like, mate, the weirdest thing, we had the call and I was like sat on the evening thinking about it and I turned on the TV and I was like, fuck hell, that's the guy. That's the guy I spoke with today. And he was like, I nearly didn't sign up because your answers were so shit, but I thought I'll let him off. Fuck, imagine that if you'd lost a big, a big name client because of, because of my pointless answers from an episode recorded two years ago, it's weird that the first time it was aired,

which was like last year, no, single person gave a shit. Now it's caused a ripple. Yeah. I think it's just because of this podcast. Is it seasonal? Was it played in December last time? Are people watching more TV now? That's a lot of questions and I mean, you're like, you know, is the price of oil changed between like what's your mum's favourite colour? Are you wearing softwares? When did you get Dexter? About a year ago.

The November last year. Okay. Wow. And it was about the same time when Pointless Air for the same time when point the first ad for the first time. Fuck man, I think dog is just, I'm just seeing the profit repaid massively for you. It well, there's a lot of clart on probably the most intense period of admin in my year. Admin. Admin was when I had to take decks that I have as Bollocks shopped off.

The like, firstly, I felt horrendous about it. I felt really bad and guilty about it. But I never thought would happen. But like as we're going into the Vets, there was like, I was like holding them like, you know, like, and then he like ripped his stitches. So I had to like take them back with in the morning. You do eat morning routine, you come downstairs,

they're ready for the most important task to do the deep-roar. I'm leading scroters. And you're like, I ripped the stitches, mate, I'll bring the vets, come back with them now. Yeah, no problem. That top shirt, right, day nap. I'm on my own now.

I'm on my own now. Got there, and that was like, I was fine, but that will be £40. Can I, ah, of course, it is. So like that, but apart from that, massive value, everyone should just get a dog. Cannot wait to get a little head. Yeah, a little head.

Do not get a whip it with psycho motor retards. Oh, no, I'll get, like, because the smaller they are, the more. You should get an Italian greyhound. So in are the more you should get in a tiny greyhound So in indexes puppy class there was a greyhound was this big should you not tiny thing that like it's it's The rubber on double speed on me. Yes There's a joder franca warm up where he gets you to do hip circles where you don't That's how there's a tiny greyhound called Jimmy ran so it was like, all ran this.

And it was like going up, like head to head against his like quite a big cockapoo. And I'm just like, I just looked at it and thought, that's great for you. So you could like, you could hold it, you could sit in your hand, but it's a Greyhound. So all the features that you want, but it's very manageable. But it's very manageable your hand, but it's a greyhound. So all the features that you want, but it's very now in the future. Very managerial. Yeah, yeah. Come on, wait.

You pick it up and move it. It's a greyhound, it's like. You've got to properly like... If someone has actually, this is, I'm going to finish it on this note, if someone has a very docile dog that we can have for a modern wisdom episode, I would quite like to just have one here. That would be great. You're not just like... You're very...

Super chill. Because it's an hour of what I'm supposed to be. Quite old. Yeah. Quite old. Just probably like a golden retriever. Golden retriever would be nice. Do they do puff puffs, though?

Like... Or don't you puff puffs? But like if they go... To get this digestion, it's puff puffs. There are some dogs that do like proper, heavy-go-in puff puffs. You just don't squeeze it. If you squeeze it, like a... Like like a bagpipe, then it does it. Like a bagpipe.

I mean, like when you... And on that note, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Thank you everyone for tuning in this year. I really do appreciate the support. Get in touch at Chris Welax, wherever you follow us or at ProPaint Fitness. Give them... I think that's my fault. Give them some Christmas stuff. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Did you?

I did. Sorry. Wow. What a wait when the year. Anyway, Merry Christmas everyone. you