Modern Wisdom - #145 - Life Hacks 111

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello friends, welcome back to Modern Wisdom. First and foremost, I want to apologize. I have been sat on this Lifehacks episode for over a month and it's been six months since our last one. But the most popular Modern Wisdom series is back, a strapped Joni and Yusuf down to the couch and whole boy is this one good. We've more than doubled since the last Lifehacks was on, so if you don't know and use it down to the couch. And whole boy is this one good. We've more than doubled since the last life hacks was on. So if you don't know what you're in for, it is a round table of myself,

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Starting point is 00:01:06 can send blog posts direct to your Kindle in perfect Kindle format, the best way that we found for instantiating habits, phone sleeves, the best protein she's we found upgrades to your travel luggage. Oh, it is so good. And links to everything that we have talked about will be in the show notes below. We've tried to find discounts and referral codes wherever we can. So just follow those links and they should give you everything that you need. Please give it up for the and Yusuf. building welcome back gentlemen. Hello very good very good life hacks one eleven. So what it is one one one 111 life hacks. That's a lie we started on 101 and John you've actually got some for I do I've done some preparation but don't you dare.

Starting point is 00:02:23 I'm not going to do that. What I am going to do though, if you know what fairbals are, they are a protein shake, pre-made protein shake, absolutely fantastic taste-globaly, partnered with the company from NACO and you can win a crate of them. All you need to do is share this episode, tag me in the share at Chris Wellex, wherever you follow me, share this episode and I'll choose someone and send a case of bearbiles out to you. And my first life hack is, can I ask you a question first? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:02:54 Are they not protein bars? They also make milk shakes, do they? Yeah. I've got some in there, don't want to take away. Yeah. So, my first life hack is replace milk on cereal with barebells white chocolate. Okay, I'm on board with that. 20 grams of cereal, I have a lot of cereal.

Starting point is 00:03:12 20 grams of protein, instantly added on to whatever your cereal is for the day. I'm gonna have to make it my life. I'll just give you one. I'll just give you one. You can't take my life hack. No, no, just the type of cereal. Oh, right. Okay, so granola works very well with granola like white chocolate Bebelle's mumshake

Starting point is 00:03:32 Procure granola Unbelievable, this is a fantastic so it's higher calorie slightly higher cost. I imagine much higher cost like yeah But must be tasty. It's so good. What sort of granola do you have don't ask him this question? Because then I know you'll get excited. What sort of granola do you go man's as their own brand? I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say I can't say So I have killed you so fast. The Quaker granola, the Quaker raisin granola is frankly lethal. Like, you don't realise it, but if you can easily do the box without even realizing it. I know what it is. I'm so calorie dense. It's unbelievable. It's like fried cereal, isn't it?

Starting point is 00:04:16 It's like someone made cereal and then just put a butter in it. Put it on the shelf. Oh, that's really, really tasty. You're like, ah, oh, oh, oh, oh. Chris is like, I just think that that's a bit lean at the moment. I've had some calories. I'm sorry. Well, that's it.

Starting point is 00:04:36 If you get at the end of the day and you're like, really one nice supper before you go to bed. But oh, 20 grams of protein down for the day. Yeah. Shit. I do think cereals are brilliant evening food. Oh, really grams of protein down for the day. Yeah, shit. There you go. I do think cereal is a brilliant evening food. So really an evening. It's the book end of the day, isn't it?

Starting point is 00:04:49 You know what I mean? It's the beginning in the end. Oh, it's just this morning, cereal. What's your before bed, cereal? Do you eat cereal for breakfast? I'm fasting until about 1 pm usually. So if I would have cereal for breakfast and just take the edge off, I mean, just take what?

Starting point is 00:05:02 Like just my sharpness. My focus, yeah. It's bedtime. Blutting the pencil. But if it's like the edge off. Just take like just my sharpness. My focus. Yeah. It's bedtime. Blundling the pencil. But if it's like before bed. Right. Cool. You actually have a list of life hacks. Johnny, go tell us. Tell us the list. So the first one you won't agree with Chris. Okay. I know you think this sort of thing is a bit silly, but a soda stream. Hmm. Got this this for Christmas right? It did, it's a present. It is. So, fizzy water,

Starting point is 00:05:30 sparkling water is when you add it up, quite expensive and also a bath. So if you're going to buy a lot of sparkling water, go on. How is buying sparkling water more of a bath than having to make the fuck the stuff yourself? Because it's's too easy to make it so you under the tap Button done what Johnny likes about it is fucking more he can shout the flavor of the water in the room And then it's the same as that other stuff that some of these are all the croix. Yeah, so Lemon It's the best description. Did I tell you that? Yeah. So I read that description about the croit and it's perfect.

Starting point is 00:06:07 Exactly what it is. What is it, while you're drinking it, it's as if someone's... Someone shouts like, like, next door, and that's the amount of flavour it marries in the region. But it's great for appetite suppression. So if you're fasting and if you're not like these soon, you have to count your calories in order to lose weight or manage your body weight, then having sparkling water instead of normal water, having carbonate drinks, great for appetite, it's also really nice.

Starting point is 00:06:34 So, why not diet coke? Or, like, green tea, caffeine and taste awful. Okay. Why not diet sprite, sprite zero? No reason. Tastes imperfect. I not diet sprites, sprites zero? No reason. Taste and preference. I'm just trying to, you know, I mean. So, once you've got a soda stream,

Starting point is 00:06:50 you need to have the gas canister, but they, you can take them to Lakeland and get them swapped for another one. Where's Lakeland? Like, into, I was like saying, where's WHO Smith? I've never seen the word Lakeland written once before. Seriously, never seen it written before. That's because you don't operate in like everything's a hard cash and nightclubs and everything.

Starting point is 00:07:12 I bet the only side-chip in here did they. If you like the bits in the GTA map that are just like blank grey shops, I don't think you can actually go inside. There's the shop. There's the polygon. There's The only way you can buy the guns and the one where you can change the color of your car. And then in between that is Lakeland. Just Lakeland. And that's it's by city. Oh, there's the garages. But yeah, so so is true. Cool, I like it. They do a little, you can actually already turn it into coke with a Lakeland. Yeah, if you've got the different

Starting point is 00:07:39 flavoring, I've got two. So what's the best flavoring? Lemon. Lemon. Diamond lemon. Don't get for God's sake, don't get the ginger beer, don't get sucked into the organic stuff. Because you go and there are some that are in like brown like medicine in the body. They're really nice. They're a bit more expensive and then you realize that the amount you have to dilute it by, you'd be better off just drinking like red coke, like the sugar is insane. So you go for having like a nice zero calorie beverage chilled in the morning, lovely. To you, I've made my own sugar drink. I've gone to effort and expense to make my own sugar trade.

Starting point is 00:08:20 Isn't as nice as co-hum. Have you, are you filtering the water before? So is it filtered water? Yes. Yeah. That's, yeah. Okay. Now it's nice. Have you filtering the water before? So is it filtered water? Yes, that's nice. But that's just because you've scared me to death about estrogen. And I feel like filtering, it's like, it's not good probably not to do anything really, but I at least feel like I'm doing something about it.

Starting point is 00:08:38 But you need to avoid whatever it is, ferritus, iron, so whatever it was. It's receipts, I can't watch my hair, I can't touch certain people. A certain people, yeah. I know the show, no candles are allowed. Yeah. Anyway, to be honest,

Starting point is 00:08:55 Johnny has actually taken the highest yield estrogen things to avoid, which is microwaving tupperware and stop doing that, which I'm so pleased with, because like when you microwaving tupperware and stop doing that, which I'm so pleased with because when you microwaving a plastic container of food and then it's all wibbly and you're just like So do you still get meal prep? No, I'm cooking myself now maybe three months.

Starting point is 00:09:17 Wow, interesting. Very good. Before I forget, just while we were on the granola thing, if you follow us on Instagram, you'll know that I have got a clinical addiction problem to Azda's best. Hazelnut, dark chocolate, cherry, granola, absolutely. On another level, like, and the problem is I get Azda delivery and I get anxious when there's less than three bags in the house. So I've always got maybe 10 bags of it at one time. And they're quite small bags. 500 grams. Or like it's like fine, there's

Starting point is 00:09:53 range, isn't it? So wait, they look at it and think, well, the normal single ball, doesn't it? Yeah, normal. There's only have a sprinkling, maybe. I think, but you just go agaday. They're like 750 or about 750 750. The staple of your diet is. Yeah. Oh, man, I'm telling you, add a bear bell's white chocolate on top of that and it will be too much to hang. It'll be enough that it should probably be on my me.vip. Just bold a video. A little bit. Still be rotating. I would subscribe to that. Yeah, as well. Serial. But you have a granular problem, but still don't gain weight is insane to me. So actually, that's my next life hack. I may as well, cereal or... The fact that you have a granola problem, but still don't gain weight is insane to me. So actually that's my next life hack.

Starting point is 00:10:28 I may as well bundle it in, but since we're talking of like, and this is just because some of us, our weight gravitates like up or down, depending on our disposition. And I've noticed this a lot with a lot of the new doctors starting that you see people's weight distinctly go up or down, depending on how busy they are. What are their coping strategies,

Starting point is 00:10:50 I suppose. Do you overwork or overroot? Yeah, exactly. I overcorner. I overcorner. Yeah, my weight tanks, so I've dropped like four or five kilos over a few weeks, just with busy periods. So granola and just putting grated cheese on everything is really. So your life hack is how to not lose weight in a stressy time. So a lot of the life hacks I've got today are you've got to pick the direction

Starting point is 00:11:19 because depending on which way. So this is like one of those, choose your own destiny adventure books. Oh yeah. Do you want to fight the dragon or do you want to run? I can realize that actually there's only ever one right answer or the horse that's about the beginning. Right, yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:32 But regardless of your goal, the hazelnut cherry dark chocolate granola, mind blowing, but anxiety and juicing when you get less than three bags. And what's the other thing? The grated cheese. Great cheese on everything. But with the granola, if you get as the delivery and you allow substitutions, they'll always try and give you some bullshit granola.

Starting point is 00:11:53 It's just like, there's just nothing. Because they also have like an extra special salted caramel crunch. That sounds great. Terrible. Oh, it's just nothing in comparison. And then sometimes the guy will have left and you're unpacking all these stuff I've been done like he's slipped in and He's taken the cherry granola for himself. Yeah, so annoying. Okay

Starting point is 00:12:16 Next up, so if you are going on holiday I advise that you pack Small drawstring bag. So if you remember about the size of an A3 piece of paper, two, a four bits of paper, side by side, it's the sort of thing you'd have taken to the swimming baths as a kid. Mm-hmm, I mean, I can drawstring backpack

Starting point is 00:12:36 and re-bock make one, which has got a single zip pocket across the front of it. And that's it, it's just a drawstring bag. And it is the single best thing that I've ever taken for going away with. You've got your big backpack that's it, it's just a drawstring bag. And it is the single best thing that I've ever taken for going away with. You've got your big backpack that's probably maybe got laptop, electronics, sunglasses, other stuff, like towel and things, oh, maybe not even towel,

Starting point is 00:12:56 that stuff in, then you've got suitcase. And this is even if you're just going for a weekend, but you need, I'm quickly going to the beach. I wanna throw my towels, swim shorts, sunglasses and kindle into something. And it's just that and you can fold it up inside of another bag, fully behind that. It is so good.

Starting point is 00:13:15 And I forgot it when I went to, on one of the trips this year, I forgot the bag. And the holiday was essentially pointless. It's really inconvenient. Yeah. I was at the difficulty levels just been increased by at least 50% and everything that I do is a bike. Or take the big bag. Take my big bag passport in there. No, so I have a travel safe, which is a small, oval, lockable foam interior thing that then has a chain, like a plastic cover chain that comes off and you can hook that round something.

Starting point is 00:13:52 That was when I was travelling and I didn't know if there was going to be safe in some of the hotels. That's a great idea that. Tinkward. That should be the life hack. Both of them. Both of them now. So I get anxiety, I have my laptop with me leaving it somewhere, leaving it in the hotel room. So you can't put your laptop in there really, can you?

Starting point is 00:14:10 In the safe. In the bag. No, no. So either you'll take your laptop back with you, I imagine. I just take it everywhere. I leave the laptop in the hotel room. Yeah, yeah, but it's like, okay, so probably you know, the hotel ones.

Starting point is 00:14:22 Well, you're never gonna be able to get a big 15 of 13 inch laptop into one of those safes anyway, then like the size of, that's true. But the other benefit of that little backpack is if it's hot, which it probably is if you're on holiday, having a sweaty back where your backpacks just like pressed against your back, it's such a horrible feeling. Man, honestly, it is so fantastic to have that. And you've just got all the little things you can have, you change, you know, just throw your change in there

Starting point is 00:14:49 when you've been going, been going shopping places. You're just chink around. Amazing. Yeah. Johnny. I'm just getting the exact name, because I think I've written the exact name down wrong. Oh, it's a specific brand,

Starting point is 00:15:00 is it? Yeah. It's that we're going forward to. It's, I saw a head written it down wrong. That was a low shave. So I'd written natural grass, but it's actually amazing grass. Amazing grass. Amazing grass, greens powder. So the reason why. Oh, I've tried that.

Starting point is 00:15:16 The one you gave me. Yeah, chocolate one. Yeah. So they make one that has cocoa in it. And so I've heard this concept, I think I, so this is a separate life hack, which is if you're buying flavored things, get chocolate flavor, because chocolate flavor is very easy to naturally flavor with cocoa. So when you get a chocolate flavor, something typically tastes pretty authentic.

Starting point is 00:15:42 You get a strawberry, banana, vanilla, whatever. I've never had a taste of it. I've never had a taste of it off. I mean, your patient zero. You're so off-pieced with flavouring, it's. Well, I've got 10 kilos still to, well, the other half of the 10 kilos to go through. That's a cake.

Starting point is 00:15:54 Pina colada. Pina colada. But birthday cake, never again, that was terrible. Do you remember it getting up five kilos and Pina colada? Yeah, I've been to 10 kilos of Pina colada. Yeah, I'm just halfway through it. But the birthday cake,

Starting point is 00:16:06 it's a bit salty, it's like eating salty dough with actual hundreds and thousands in the way. Who wants that in their protein shake? Someone who wants a birthday cake way. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, so they do a co-cut, like a chocolate flavor greens powder that is honestly, like, compared to your typical greens powder.

Starting point is 00:16:23 This is obviously palatable. The, that will look, yeah of it is purely because of taste. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I can get behind that. I mean, it's just easy, naughty. Oh, goodness.

Starting point is 00:16:33 It's really easy compared to like, so I've tried once in my protein and protein works that are flavored them. It's like super berry or blueberry or whatever. It's a bit art tropical. There's you could add it to like chocolate way, you wouldn't even know us. Oh nice, cool. Which you should also get chocolate way.

Starting point is 00:16:50 It's the way it'll live your life in an easy way. Definitely when you're starting with a new supplement, chocolate's a pretty safe one to go for. But most companies now, pretty much everyone does sample packs. So just get the 25 grams single serving sample of one of everything. And then you can go, I like this, I don't like this. You should write that like on, you should make a post that just says buy the sample pack. I don't have that.

Starting point is 00:17:14 Stick it to the front of use of support. So I've never got a sample pack, but I feel like my days of experiment it with way. Like that was when I was young and reckless. Do you still use, you don't use way anybody? Yeah, like I have the, I'll have the appropriate. But I Do you still use way anybody? Yeah, I have the approach. But I've got a problem now, which is because I get the bulk. I use to get the largest increment of way that I can, of a single flavor, but the new flavors coming out,

Starting point is 00:17:34 coming out at a faster rate than how fast I consume way. How many pro tricks do you think you've had over the past five years that you've enjoyed? Like really genuinely thought, that's nice. Is it less than a hundred? Yeah, definitely less than a hundred. But you have one every day. So, we're one more after that, if we want more after that bearbubble. Well, I'm currently on the hunt for a new brand of protein.

Starting point is 00:17:59 I want something that actually tastes nice. So, if you guys have any suggestions, I'm happy to pay. I feel like you're the man with the answer. I don't know why I think so. Protein works, some of their stuff's real good. They've got some great flavor. I don't want to go for some generic brand. I want like some genetic supplements.

Starting point is 00:18:14 Something like that. To my nutrition or something like that. I don't get it. It's just protein. Yeah, I agree. It's such a transaction. Definitely, and I've said this to protein works, despite the fact I support the podcast, the best protein I found at the moment is bulk powders, beef,

Starting point is 00:18:33 isolate. Does it taste beefy at all? Chocolate, just pure chocolate, the best chocolate ever, but there's not a single smidge of dairy in it, and it's isolated, so it's super thin. My protein do a beef, a normal beef powder. It's like, you have to punch it down. Yeah. You're going to much of it.

Starting point is 00:18:55 So like medium thick. And that you can add malt and extra in it. I'll just give you. Is it, is it, is it,. Is it nice than a normal way? Or is it nice because you're trying to taste. Tastes wise. Yeah. It depends.

Starting point is 00:19:12 So I've really developed a taste for it. I enjoy the taste of that particular shake now. And the fact that I don't get even the slightest amount of stomach discomfort, which I was getting really bad from way. You get bloaty? Yeah, bloaty, just uncomfortable. Then I switched to a varying degrees of diet way, isolate, da, da, da, still bad, then switched to my protein's beef. Still wasn't too good, because it was so thick, just gelatinous glob of, like, this cylinder of just material that's going down like

Starting point is 00:19:45 stuck to you. You know, when you have to unblock a drain, you put Mr. Muscle drain and block it down. You see that bit of hair. It's been a lot of thin air just move. That's what it was like. And then this is pretty important. So if you're buying flavoured things, get chocolate as a safe. And that greens powder, like if you, if you, if you want to, so I'm one of these people, he always thinks like there's not that there's no reason why I shouldn't just have a greens powder.

Starting point is 00:20:11 Like there's not, you know, I haven't not had a greens powder in as long as I can remember now. Right, well, so you, do you just have it playing on a tone? Tropical protein works. No, it's fine. Anything, it's all right. Half a glass of water.

Starting point is 00:20:23 Totally fine. Do you have a greens powder? No. I've got one with this expired, not so through the way. Do you think we still have that in there? My protein veg powder that was like garlic and mushroom. Super veg, I've got it. And I've mixed it with, I've had a honey. I've mixed it with a loose scene and a psyllium husk.

Starting point is 00:20:38 And then just try and drink it down. And because it's so pungent, you try and make it concentrated and you're like, what? No, it's not. And so, you try and make it concentrated and you're like what's maybe even worse. And so then you try and have it with like a pint of water and you're like actually it's not diluted the flavor at all, it still tastes just as concentrated but now I've just got more to have to drink. Or for. Wow. Right. So I've got quite a lot to get through today. That's good, but I'm not going to get moving. We can always save some for next time. You do one now. Okay, we've got quite a few suggested from...

Starting point is 00:21:06 I want to stick to you all. I'm not having... People are not in the crowd for this. That's why everyone here is watching, because of you. But, well, this is Paul Turner's Paul not small. He has said, whenever something comes out, like an event comes out and tickets six months in advance, whether or not you can go by two, because then

Starting point is 00:21:27 you've bought one and then you can just invite someone later, you don't have to pick who it is, you don't have to arrange it, just close it to the time, you can be like, oh, Darren Brown's coming to the town, I've got two tickets, you can't see going. And it's like, that's a great tip for. It's a good tip for us. I've been low key employed at myself previously and benefited from it. Brian Cox took my mom. Brilliant.

Starting point is 00:21:47 Like you can always find someone to go with you to a cool event. As long as it's good things. Well, yeah, yeah, if it's something really weird, that you really gonna have to try and convince someone to come to the place. Does anybody fancy going to the new dungeon and dragons? Such. So if that's the case, then like that's a really fundamental, like you've

Starting point is 00:22:03 got to reevaluate your friends like if there's nothing that you can do. Or have a painting workshop happening in the back end of the town wall this week. So we have the monochrome. I think I'd go to both of those, but just out of intrigue, I'll probably save very long, very voyeuristic for you. Yeah. Okay, right, this one, oh my god.

Starting point is 00:22:22 So send to Kindle extension for Chrome on Macbook wow this you're getting so into Kindle these days fuck man so I've started using my Kindle. Paper-White. Yeah so I love my Kindle I don't like reading articles on my phone because phone the way that I use my phone is very skittish flicking around between apps. I mean, the rhythm of WhatsApp and Instagram and stuff. Just, it's how I operate on them. I'm not good for deep reading. Laptop as well. It's just, you've got to be at my desk, standing, I'm sitting, I'm doing whatever, kind of not for me. So, Kindle now is a article reader as well. Previously, my solution to this was

Starting point is 00:23:08 use Evernote Web Clipper Clip to Evernote, export as a HTML file, repurpose an export as a PDF, then use the center Kindle. Oh my god. So arduous man. But I just wanted it because you need to have it so it looks nice on Kindle. So it needs to be in PDF, it needs to have converted, it needs to have stripped the formatting, it needs to have kept you know, all of the different stuff, it was just ugly, real bad process. And then one day I just googled, is there a center Kindle, there is a center Kindle extension for Chrome that you can search now, it'll be in the show notes below. And you just press one button, previews the whole thing, makes it the perfect size allows you to zoom in and out with the font size that your preferences are. On your Kindle paper white, you can edit

Starting point is 00:23:50 before it sends in browser, you can edit the title and the author of the article that you're talking about in case sometimes it doesn't pull through the right metadata. And it just sends it perfectly formatted to your Kindle. Instantly, every Kindle device that you've got has that article. Does it save it in your library? Yeah, in the cloud. So it'll be on Kindle, on your phone, Kindle on you, whatever. Man, it... And so I'm supposed to send things stuff to Pocket.

Starting point is 00:24:18 Now, Pocket, for me, is low-grade shit. Pocket is like sub-five minute reads, sub sub 10 minute reads, but if I've got meditations on mollock, hour and a half read, this big monster of a blog post I've wanted to do. And I can just read it like a book. And you can highlight passages that will save back out in our man. It's phenomenal. I haven't had, I haven't had something that's changed the word for me. I've proved my life that much in ages, sent a Kindle for Chrome. So the problem I always have with like, because you have Toby and Pocket, like all these things are like delay the time you're going to read something. What I've never really had is a time when I would definitely read it. But something that I do

Starting point is 00:24:59 is read, or only very recently just read a bit of my Kindle in the morning, because it means I don't have to use my phone or my laptop or anything. So if I can take something from that and read it then. So I think that is quite a good solution to that is either like attach it to a thing that you do that, I guess like you haven't got along, commute or anything. So it doesn't apply for that. But I find morning when I'm getting up, brushing teeth,

Starting point is 00:25:22 making a tea or whatever, the first sort of 10, 15 minutes, great time for just opening either pocket, ever know something like that, swiping down with two fingers from the top over the iPhone, and then it just reads the article. So it's like an audio book or just listening to an actual audio book in that time. So I wonder whether you're like, while you're waking up, you're getting a little bit of a listen to something. Or if there's any like dead time, I guess if you're waiting for food in the microwave or something like that. That's something we might not have touched on before.

Starting point is 00:25:52 We're going back to an old one there, but Pocket, which is a read later saving app on mobile, has a function where for maybe about 60% of articles, you can just press the headphones at the bottom of it, and it'll just read an article that you've saved. They changed the voice, which is a shame. I haven't done it in, I haven't used it in a while. It used to be a great voice,

Starting point is 00:26:12 and that was this weird American digital sounding. It was really accurate, pretty, see. Anyway, Johnny, you're up. Where you got, where you got from. Which one to pick? See, you got big. Ben and Jerry's, move for it.. Which one to pick? See, you got big. Ben and Jerry's move for you. Is this one of those low calorie?

Starting point is 00:26:29 It is, but so low calorie ice creams are like all the... Penne, penne, the marmalade. This is the best way. Penne, it won't matter to you guys because you'll just eat the normal ice cream and still not gain weight. But for people who are like in the Halo top crew, like Halo top compact, so Halo top is between 280

Starting point is 00:26:48 and let's say 400 calories a tub. Move for is slightly higher, so it's around 600, 700 calories a tub, but it's way, way more than a proportional increase in taste for the increase in calories. Okay, I mean, it's Ben and Jerry's. Is it move for you? I think that's what it's for you.

Starting point is 00:27:02 What's the flavor? So I think they do like three or four. It's like a caronl one, chocolate one. Hang on, so it's Muforia, it's a range. Yeah, they do. Okay, so they're all purple tubs. Yeah, so they have some Ben and Jerry's flavours are just like a lower calorie version. They used to do a frozen yoghurt back in the day,

Starting point is 00:27:20 like back in like 2010. They stopped doing that and they brought this out now. So it's really good. How much of a tub do you need to eat to be satisfied? Because the problem I have with halotop is, oh well, and good, tell me that it's only 350 calories per tub mate. Yeah, but for me to be satisfied because it's mostly air, I have to eat the whole thing. Eat the whole thing. So I probably would still eat the whole thing. That's a big chunk of you calories for the day. Not really. I think this motto is like, I just eat the whole thing.

Starting point is 00:27:54 Yeah, that could be a success. That's why I like it. Something to Mr. Grinnell. Or I was going to fuck it. If I was going to not eat the whole thing, I'd just get normal. I screw in having a bit of it, but I just don't think. That's how it works. What's a normal tub of Ben and Jerry's? That's like 1200.

Starting point is 00:28:08 Yeah. So you're talking about 50% off. Yeah, I don't think, so I'm not like an ice cream connoisseur, but I don't think on a blind taste test. Yeah, but tell me. It may be, maybe normal Ben and Jerry's is like, wake cream yet. But that's close enough. It's D.B.

Starting point is 00:28:24 Is that really what you're saying? Diacro is like wake cream. Yeah, but it's close enough. It's to be is that is that really? Dicorps is normal coke Yeah Okay, I hope zero yeah, so the later kind of coax that they brought out the Pepsi Max. Yeah, yeah So the other thing which is a separate life hack is I it was just related to this is I I'm far happier buying a serving of something that I know I can eat the whole thing off, that feels like I have to rush it myself. So if I would, but if

Starting point is 00:28:49 I would go, if I would have wanted some biscuits and I have a pack of a serving of three biscuits in a packet, this is taking the three biscuits out of a packet and then putting the packet away, I get way more enjoyment out of eating the whole pack of three than half or a portion of the pack of five. There's a huge amount of nutritional psychology in that, isn't there? And they look at people who have the, people who tend to be the natural weight gainers, other ones that will eat everything that's on their plate, maybe from the way that we're acculturated or socialized when we're young, to like, you've got to finish your whole plate otherwise you're not getting any pudding. Like, there's, there's that and there's also that like,

Starting point is 00:29:28 we override our own satiety response because we're like, well, there's my plate. Got to finish it. Yeah. Which is sort of arbitrary amount of food if you haven't served it, right? If mum's put this on your plate, that's the size of the plate. That's just mum's estimate. Yeah. And actually now, canteens no longer are allowed to discriminate when, you know discriminate when they look at it like big doom. They're like, oh, I'll give you an extra bit of chips. Now they have to just give people standard portion control. Yeah, so why? Someone got upset. Someone got upset.

Starting point is 00:29:56 It was all the fines. Someone with green hair. Did you see this article that's been shared around by Douglas Murray and some people recently Saying I'm a heterosexual woman who's politically opposed to heterosexuality. Please help So it's a politically opposed to it. So it's a woman. How can you be? So it's a woman who is a heterosexual woman who is sexually attracted to men But hates a patriarchy Doesn't like the fact that heterosexual men objectify women. So she is now trying to find a bicarious man on Grindr, who has woke politics, but will also a fucker.

Starting point is 00:30:37 And this all came out recently. I was like, that's fine, you can do what you like. The world's just getting turned upside down. It sounds like she just needs something better to do. Good Roger. Yeah, like just like a hobby or like a you know an interest that isn't just finding something that's pick out. I've tried to summarize your life hack as allow the manufacturer to do your portion control for you. So yes, I'm really behind that like if all of my food came in a

Starting point is 00:31:06 packet. I would eat the whole thing. I'd be so happy about that. So you like discreet valley. Well that's the account name you, isn't it? It's the packet in me. I like to eat the whole packet. So I have to see you. It's two and a half thousand calories within a protein. I it, like I've never seen you eat a meal and then say, hmm, yeah, I think I've had enough of that. I hope a little bit more of someone else's plate. And now I'm fine. I have so many arguments with people when I was dieting

Starting point is 00:31:36 where we'd go out for a meal. And I'd be saved a portion. I'd be like, fuck, I'm gonna go to my calories and they go, why aren't you just eat half of it? No, I can't. Yeah, stupid. Would you mean eat half of it? No, I can't. Yeah, stupid. Would you mean eat half of it? Like, I far rather eat all of it and know where I am.

Starting point is 00:31:49 Then half of it, I guess. Like, if I eat all of it, I'll be able to find the calories online. And then I'll know I've had that many calories. If I eat half, it's like, well, did I have three in a gram? That's, you know that you're gonna put that amount in and you can just put 0.5 serving in there. I know, but it's less fun, isn't it? It is, that's fun.

Starting point is 00:32:07 There'll be people who listen to this, you think. I agree with that man there. I just think I agree with that man. Eating all of something is a very satisfying way to just organize your day. You can't do it. Right. You said, you go, I bet you have a bit of the bag of granola, don't you? Oh, yeah, well, I just using the bag of granola.

Starting point is 00:32:26 You can't finish boxes of cereal, why not? Because no one's made it yet. Because that's where the gap in the market is, right? Yes. Is it your bag? This is the Nomo bag. These are incredible. I mean it's looking a bit tati-nark, because I've had it for 10 years.

Starting point is 00:32:42 But they are designed with MacBooks in in mind so you can slip a little pink Macbook in there and it's got a special pocket as you can probably see that's lined with very Macbook friendly stuff. This has been all around the world just absolutely great for transporting your map around. Because what is funny? Please, can we try and get our camera? What you won't receive was just... Oh, the condoms.

Starting point is 00:33:21 No, no. What? No. Oh no. What? No! No! No! No! Oh no. What? No!

Starting point is 00:33:31 No! No! Oh, I've really done it then. No! Oh god, that's too easy. You just got a mac, a mac. Why are you just going to have the essentials? You You're just gonna have the essentials, but like, what are you originally laughing at? Like, the croissants.

Starting point is 00:33:50 Say in the bag, you have a Macbook condoms in croissant. Yeah. And status quo. So you're back in saying, a pink Macbook? No, just not make that sound. Oh, yeah, it was always as you explained the the MacBook friendly compartment Chris and I just exchanged a glance of like

Starting point is 00:34:17 We both gave each other a look. Dean will be able to make it happen and we both just went So and we both just went. So, do you want to start? I do, yeah. Well, I think so what I was confused by was I feel like that's a very common back book, back, back pack feature. That was why I looked at first. So now it is, maybe back when you, 10 years ago, when the NOMO pioneered the, you said it's a cool, with Macbook in mind. Mm-hmm. I think that's a big claim.

Starting point is 00:34:49 Made with Macbook in mind. That's their that's their stick. Is it? Yeah, so is it a Macbook? Actually, one of our clients I was buying a new one and I looked at the photo and I was like, oh, it's Freddie. And it was one of our he's a model. And he was modeling the bag. So, man, it's a good looking bag. And he've had this for forever. But I just, I wish you- You just don't believe it's a man. So, no.

Starting point is 00:35:12 And the other thing as well is you are with a man who has gone for the absolute Ferrari of backpacks here. No, I have. Oh, yeah. The Bill Frasslitz one. Tool. Oh, no. No.

Starting point is 00:35:24 Tool is... Sorry, you should have a... Tool. Now I have a Bill Frasslitz one. Tool. Oh no. No. Tool is... Sorry, you just have a tool. Tool. Yeah. Now I have a built for athletes one. Oh God, you've very crossed it, I don't know. Well, so the reason for that is, have you seen what's happened to the price of tool laptops,

Starting point is 00:35:38 laptop bags, yeah? Gone up. Insane. Well, then they are unbelievable. So when I bought mine, it was 60 quid. Now that same bag is over 60 quid. Now that same bag is over 200 quid. Wow. Yeah. And it broke the one I had. The zip one. You can tell. So what I like about cool is when you see someone walking through an airport with

Starting point is 00:35:56 one on, you're like, it's just someone. It sounds like you guys trying to speak Arabic when you say cool. Cool. How do you say? How's it spelled? T H U L E. Okay. How would you pronounce that? Sue L. Bless you. I can't believe that there was condoms in your bag and we weren't even laughing about it. I can't believe that it was it was MacBook condoms quasson, setterscope. That's in that order. In that order. You carry essentials. I also really like how your idea of a portable smack is pastry.

Starting point is 00:36:27 Well, it was a double pack. Because you often pull out the plastic packet of a panna raisin. It'll be a panna raisin if I'd want to earlier. Yeah, because he doesn't finish all of the things. Right, because I would have eaten both of these immediately. Because it's just like, well, I've got the box stuff. Because it's like, it's like, it's found in calories. Yeah, I've collected some of these over a little while

Starting point is 00:36:50 and some of them are real good, but they've been fully integrated into my life that the novelties won off. That's when you know that they're good because they've made the course. City Mapper. I think I know what that is, but fucking hell. So any big city...

Starting point is 00:37:05 How do you survive without it? Without CityMaker, yeah. So it's essentially, it's kind of like Google Maps, meets trainline.com, meets the bus timetable. You put your location of where you are now and where you want to go in, and it will give you all of the different options of how to get there.

Starting point is 00:37:23 Do you want to hail a cab? Do you want to get a mobile bike, a line scooter thing? Do you want to do a combination of walking and tube walking in an overground train? Do you just want to walk the whole thing and you just choose and then once you press go on your chosen route, especially if you're taking the tube, it's linked in with the tube timetable, so tells you what time, what platform you need to go on, or you need to go northbound, so turn right when you get to the thing, and it downloads it offline so that when you're underground in the tube, it will know when you go and all you do is swipe right when you've got to the next thing, it even knows the timing based on when it thinks the tube would have arrived,

Starting point is 00:38:03 and comes up on your phone saying, you probably need to get off now. Like when it thinks you're at the next stop, then you get off and you keep on going. So that's not GPS based, that's time based. It's a very clever app. And like, it's nice having seen it grow over the years. Like, well, if you've been an old user. Yeah, so it used to be relatively rudimentary

Starting point is 00:38:22 and only have like one or two cities and now it's just like, includes, yeah., cycling, the Barclays bike things, walking estimates, like all the different methods and it just like tells you like, okay, that's the quickest, that's the cheapest. Here's how long the law takes. This is how many calories that I'll expect. Yeah, even tells you how many calories that are like spent. Even tells you how many calories you're like spending by doing each route. Man, it's unreal. It is. Is there like a paid version?

Starting point is 00:38:49 I'm just wondering why. I think it's ads. Right. I think it must be ads. Be an ad model. Free me. Free me. Right.

Starting point is 00:38:56 Johnny, what you got? It is me. This is a journaling thing for those people who do journaling. Do you think it's both? It's video-guiding as well. The X-Day. So, there's a lot of journals do like daily wins, daily gratuude, all that sort of thing. Something that I recently, it was kind of suggested I try, was journal one thing that went

Starting point is 00:39:23 badly in the day. So journal like the worst thing that happened. And then try and flip it. So like, why is that? Why is it a good thing that happened? And then what am I going to do about it tomorrow? And it's just constant evolution of you take the work, take the worst part of your day and try and reframe it. Can you give us some examples of things that you've written? I mean it's so it'll be all tiny, propane, very specific things. They're saying you're writing, finishing that with, this is good because and then forcing yourself to come up with a task. Because there's always, you know,

Starting point is 00:39:57 like you know the jocker willenck video, you know, the good reload. There is always something good. I think there's had a training session where I was under-slapped and under-reaten, perfectly fine. I learned how I was able to get through a session under not perfect. So like any an argument that you had or something that went wrong, injure my back, why is that good? Well, it's an opportunity to warm up properly in future or etc. So it's just good. Last year in Battalion. Not everything's fucking good. So then, then shared something with me that has ruined a jock over me forever. So you know how jokers and Instagrams, like just photos of it 4am 4am is what it takes them in batch and then Shes not that it's a video of him and then the other thing is a photo of the sweat on the floor. Yeah after

Starting point is 00:40:52 Math a single kettlebell it was a it was a video of him doing chin ups and training in his garage and you realize like it's just a Guy in like his 50s training and it's just not the spectral form. It's not at all impressive Like it's okay, but you imagine this like hulking massive like square or maybe see it like ripping it up, but actually it's like And it's just rude made it's massive though. What's his name? Black guy, David Goggins. No, it's not David Goggins. No, you mean David Goggins. Charlie, it was like Charlie, he wasn't like.

Starting point is 00:41:31 Goggins. I know the one that you mean. Yeah, he does the podcast with him. He's like, it's not. Oh, right, okay. David Goggins. David Goggins. Yeah, David Goggins.

Starting point is 00:41:41 So, you see. Okay, rapid fire round. These are the suggestions. By loose bananas instead of packs for less waste at various levels of ripeness, that's from Paul McGurrin, very clever. So you buy a range of bananas ranging from the most ripe and then like as the week goes on. She never got caught out.

Starting point is 00:41:57 You have a convey about very good. Page power lifts, we're not a fan of this one. Sorry Tom, drive 10 miles per hour, slower on the motorway. So that implies you are, you're driving too fast in which case, obviously you might get a ticket as a risk with that. To be honest, I probably do need to do that because I think it just takes out the rushing mindset. I think you tend to get in a lot of car crashes. Yeah. Are you like, you're a good bump, don't you? I love a good bump I think you tend to get a lot of car crashes. Yeah. Are you like, you're a good, good bump, don't I love a good bump. So yeah, I need to maybe just

Starting point is 00:42:29 slow down a bit. Nick Montez, hi. Simon Robertson preload multiple bin bags in the bin. So in case of a split bag, the mess is contained. It's not bad. Windscreen cover for your car in the winter costs £10, saves 30 minutes, better ROI than a shoe that's followed up with horn. No car windscreen takes 30 minutes to clear. Yeah, it's not 30 minutes of active effort as well. There's always the break glass in case we're emergency of having lukewarm water and I know it might crack your windscreen but if you've got to get somebody, you've got to get a fat one.

Starting point is 00:43:03 So you know I actually saw people opposite my house, fill up a freezer, like run into the house, fill up a freezer bag with hot water, run out and like use it to... Drap it across. Yeah, so they're like draped it in, click the lens screen, and thought it's very fun.

Starting point is 00:43:18 So if you've got a life hack, it looks weird. I know that Yusuf is deploying something that he's been sent here by people that follow their propane Instagram. If you have any life hacks, put them in the show notes below. I'm sorry, put them in the comments below and YouTube or just message them to me. And I'll feature them next time if they're not shit.

Starting point is 00:43:35 But if it drives slower, you're not getting me on it. So, well, one of these has to come. We're now a ebook. So the final two, Pete Column, beard apron, dash, collect, one of these has to come in. We're now a e-book. So, the final two, Pete column, beard apron, dash, collects all the hair. I imagine that's like a device that you are on. You see it, yeah, so it's like you wear this neck first around the back of your neck,

Starting point is 00:43:56 and it's a sheet of material that then goes in as suction cups that go on to the mirror mirror. Okay, so if someone comes in the bathroom and sees you, they're just like watching you. Is the final one good? Monzo linked to if this, then that automatically save money every day. I'd like to see how you implement that piece

Starting point is 00:44:15 because that could be quite good. I think I know which peak that is. Ramyat set he's a big fan of automating you finances. I think if you don't do that, you're a willy because bills don't need to be paid manually. Oh God. Direct, just direct debit, everything. It's like going back to a manual car, no, like thinking, oh well, I've got to, no, I have to think about manually changing the transmission of my car as I change speed, like why is that ever a human act

Starting point is 00:44:40 to do? There are some people, some coaches that I've worked with that have, that have build me manually with an invoice. Yeah. Like fuck. Just, see, I just sabred, I don't know. So I think my favourite out of them is the bananas. Banana ones. Yes, bananas, bananas made it. By Ranger White bananas has made it onto the life hacks thing all the other ones.

Starting point is 00:44:59 Can't do that with apples, can't do that. I prefer an apple to a banana, personally. Having a really overripe apple is horrible as well. Is that when it's soft? When it's a bit rinky, really. It's like, thank you. Okay, so my next one is improve your email signature. So I had a terrible email signature.

Starting point is 00:45:21 It was all that, if this message is for the intended recipient, if we scan our viruses, it's not a thing for the environment before you're pretty good. Mate, who the fuck has? No one's, if someone gets infected with the virus, because you've sent it to them. They're not going to go, oh well, you had that disclaimer on the bottom that said, voodoo events, do all they can to try and scan for viruses, please be- It's like when people put on YouTube, you know, a copyright infringement intended.

Starting point is 00:45:49 You're like, I don't think that's actually true. Oh, yeah, because DCMS are gonna really be worried about that, then I'm gonna crack down on you because you've stolen a load of Michael Jackson music because of that. So my email signature went through and just cut it down to the bare minimum, which also includes names. I never have to say thanks Chris now, which I kind of was doing before because it was

Starting point is 00:46:10 obviously clunky. That then create the email signature on Gmail. Hyperlink the text so you can select the text. So it says filling nightclubs at voodoo new castle voodoo new castle links to our website Host of modern wisdom podcast monom wisdom links Then you can copy and paste that across into notes copy and paste that out of notes into your email signature section on iPhone and it will retain The hyperlinks as well, right and all of the formatting You've also got the quote below and you like, tears better to have loved and lost than never loved.

Starting point is 00:46:48 It reminds me, that was last week, it's a live laugh love now. Live laugh love, yeah. Good memory. I love, it's my favorite type of, I don't know if people don't fray anymore, but putting a really in name quote that like, is like pseudo inspirational,

Starting point is 00:47:04 you'd imagine on like some someone's Instagram like with like text and like a John Peterson's, John Peterson's personal email address has the truth will set you free. I'm not kidding. Oh Jordan. Anyway, mine's just on my Apple Mail. Like when I select the email account I want to mail from it brings up the signal. Yeah, on Arthur Blobson. Exactly. Yeah. That's why. Yeah. I have heard that it's a common who was was like, if you sell anything, put the URL in it. It's something. It's something now. Put the URL in the signature. And then people, like it's just free traffic. It's the most free traffic. The trouble with that is we email a lot

Starting point is 00:47:43 of customers. And I don't want customers back in the front end. That's the work. That's my worst nightmare. All the work I've had to do was segment and split them off in the right place and then I email them and they react to it. Oh God. Right, Johnny. Johnny. Johnny. So this is a bit of a theme that I've been trying to do this year. So kind of like my new year thing was to, which is influence from a guy called Samovans, who I know you're a massive fan of Samovans, but just the idea of, so what I've always historically done is, with any of my self-improvement of habits or anything like that. And this is the, but I think this is the best way to find life hacks is I've typically had like the weekends where I wake up late or do things a bit differently. Or like I'll modify my days a bit,

Starting point is 00:48:34 but I've tried as much as possible to wake up at the same time every day. So I like, I'm like a minute out since like the fifth, the January or whatever. Go to bed, same time every day, train the same days of the same week at the same time, eat at the same time. So you just create this like framework over your day, it is the same every time. So you start to feel hungry at the same time, you start to feel tired at the same time. And then my morning routine is exactly the same and I've got it down to you an hour. So I know you were talking about this last time, like if you know, so I know that by 8am, I'm done. Go downstairs, coffee, feed decks,

Starting point is 00:49:07 the Becca walkstack, the go upstairs, cold shower, start work by this time. Everything, everything in your life is so much easier. Cause like you aren't, what Sam says is like, you know fighting hormones, like you're not fighting like, randomly feeling hungry at 10am, cause you wait then yesterday, not randomly feeling tired at 9.30.

Starting point is 00:49:26 But when you've got that running, so like pop that, the life hack is one, rather than trying to do, well I think most people do is like, right, now's the time I'm gonna improve myself, I'm gonna pick this really complicated thing and try and stick to it, pick like the most basic bit of version

Starting point is 00:49:42 and do it perfectly for like 14 days and then try and pick the little optimization points. What's an example of that? So the guy you interviewed, the efficiencies, everything guy spoke about like write out your morning routine for example and then look for little ways you can make it better. So rather than like I'm gonna wake up and stretch and journal and read and exercise and have a brain shake like pick like three things or one thing that you know you're going to be able to do and prove it to yourself for 14 days I'm never going to miss then I'd one thing in and when you just when you have that you can spot like actually like I could add this and that would make that a little bit better a little bit quicker like I'll brush my teeth then. She had to know more. So to add to that then, the thing that this guy talked about, he used the example of what,

Starting point is 00:50:34 Henry Ford's first public speech about his manufacturing process. That was my example. Oh, when he gets on the rest. Yeah, that's my example. Don't give it to him. Oh, God. Okay. I'm not a fucking sorry. Chris is example of where he, rather than doing up his shirt from top to bottom and then putting his tie on, it was put the shirt buttons on from bottom to top and then his hands were already in the same spot to do the tie. And although that sounds like a silly thing when it's when it's Henry Ford and that's scaled over and when he's actually in the process for a car, it's like every...

Starting point is 00:51:09 You get the Ford motor company. Yeah, that's where you get. That's what you get. And so the idea of like, batching your tasks so that you have your toothbrush and floss in the shower, you wake up, you turn the shower on, you go and boil the kettle, you come back, close off in the shower, you wake up, you turn the shower on, you go and boil the kettle, you come back, close off in the shower, you wash your...

Starting point is 00:51:30 It's shampooing there, you let the soap. That's it, so you wash your body from top to bottom, rather than like lather up the lower parts of your body and then try and work up and then you've got my cleaning to do. I think that, I know it sounds so basic, like an alien didn't say it because like to say like just do the same thing every day sounds so. But it's actually very hard for yourself employed as well and there's no limits on the frame work. So I know my shower is 10 minutes long. There's a very specific reason why it's 7 minutes long because I'm progressively adding cold to the end of it. But like I know pretty much within a

Starting point is 00:52:02 5 minute window when I'm starting work. And so then I know when I'll finish work. And it's just everything is so much easier. And there'll be people who are like, yeah, obviously mate. But like, how many people lie in on the weekend because they think that that's improving the sleep when actually it almost certainly isn't. Mm-hmm.

Starting point is 00:52:21 It can't register me in the noise. But yeah, so just try that. It's a lot more fun. It's really helped me. That is great. And I think that principle can apply to a lot of work as well, which is like, and this is where Gantt charts come in, where, if you're not aware of what a Gantt chart is, is where you have multiple streams or strands of a process all happening in parallel and then you've got to see which

Starting point is 00:52:49 ones are bottlenecks by other ones. So which one is required before you can do the next one, which ones need to be started and then left to run on their own and don't require further input but you need to wait for them. And basically what can you look at within a large project that you can set all these dominoes off, go away and do something else rather than sit and wait for that domino to fall and then come back to it. You'll find you can compress quite a lot of tasks. So it's like going to a lift, people come in the lift, you far then, you can get out of the lift, like it's perfect rather than fast-forward at the beginning of your lift. Perfect way to put that. You do not need a gant chart to make this work.

Starting point is 00:53:26 You can do it quite easily just off your own back. But perfect example of that is if you're going to sit down and do a morning routine and you have a coffee as a part of your morning routine, make the coffee at the beginning and allow it to cool throughout. Yeah. And it means that the cooling is a process which has to occur. You might as well allow yourself to do other things whilst a bit when you have coffee, you probably make a coffee before the shower. So the most frustrating part, my morning routine at the moment, is between waking up and starting my,

Starting point is 00:53:54 so the first thing I do is I read, because it's the lowest effort thing to do, but I'm just, even though I'm getting 7,500, 7, seven half hours sleep I wake up I'm a bit grow slow so but but this is the thing that's kind of what I mean like what I'm looking for now is What can I do to kind of Luminous you're waiting. So that's what I'm gonna add In ten minutes. So this is why I bought a 50 quid trampoline It's so ready. So I thought the podcast yeah, stop the podcast I think I think that deserves just reversing the order of failure. Thank you. Just put that at the beginning.

Starting point is 00:54:28 What? So, you know, rebound or trampoline. Do you know what I mean? Like a small trampoline. I know a small trampoline. So, a small trampoline. So, imagine a small trampoline. That, but one of those. The reason is, I know that when I, so like, you mentioned you're a for a walk first thing, right, don't really want to do that because I do that anywhere with Dexter, about an hour or so later, don't really want to train because I typically feel like overall worse, thought about doing like, I could do burpees or like, if I move it might like get my blood flowing, but like, realistically, who is going to wake up and do burpees, no one. So, get a trampoline bounce. You get off a trampoline, firstly it's way harder than you think, way harder than you think. Secondly,

Starting point is 00:55:16 there's not really any physical impact at all other than. So, just to recap, you you bought a trampoline, yes. Like if you imagine a big trampoline, it's a little smaller one. Yes, and you're going to, that's going to be your thing. I am doing that. Balance. Okay. So the Biohackers handbook suggests that, don't say not, that's going to trampoline. It doesn't bring up that specific, surprisingly.

Starting point is 00:55:44 It doesn't actually have any tips about that. What it does say is going upside down. So inversion. So that might be worth trying. You could alternate. You could do trampoline one day. To be honest, I'd be well at for that. So it's a heavy heavy.

Starting point is 00:55:56 So it's a heavy heavy. No, no, no, no. So you need to be upside down with hands on ground. So you'd kick up onto a wall like you would have used to have done in CrossFit. I struggle Chris to get no hands down. The chance of me getting into a hands down, tender side. This is how you'll get you to do them any confidence up so you can do it. I think you're very physically capable of it. It's not to do a press, it's just to go into a hands down, and that just gets the blood

Starting point is 00:56:20 down in your head. That's precisely what it's doing. Yeah. And hyperaccentral. Yeah. A little bit. Yeah. Did it when I was 13? Good night. Yeah. It's because first thing in the morning, you're a denocene receptor that's not active. That's why you don't need caffeine within the first 90 minutes. So your adrenal system is what's active that and what's the stress hormone? Cortisol. Cortisol. Except for what wakes you up on the morning, right? So a adrenal system gets activated salt, lemon water and going upside down. My God. I'm gonna do it.

Starting point is 00:56:53 I bet I mean that's your sort of drip. You're upside down just for fun. Yeah, it's true. I just love being upside down. So I'm gonna start doing that. Do you prefer being upside down to being right where? It's really meditative. And a lot of really advanced handstanders

Starting point is 00:57:08 like become very, like they all describe it as a very meditative experience. I think it's because like, you know, the zen things are like balancing stones or it's just that, like you're totally focused on maintaining your line. And it does just like. So it feels like it would be beneficial.

Starting point is 00:57:23 It's just more shoulder load, isn't it? More like a stability. There's a lot of you going through your arms as well. Yeah, it's hard. It's hard. I keep 100 kilos. I've put my head press. Hold your head.

Starting point is 00:57:34 So I've put yours down as eat, sleep, and train at the same time. Add habits in. Purgurips, yeah. So once you've got that, once you're running and kind of doing that consistently, then looking for like, how can I improve this? That's what your habits are. It's like a minimum viable product on.

Starting point is 00:57:50 Yeah, and how about it? So before you're like, how can I make my three-hour morning routine? Think like, well, why don't I wake up at the same time, maybe for five days, and then start to slow you out things in? So just adding onto that, I didn't know that there's a rationale behind it, but I've always found first coffee the day, D-Caf. So the coffee I have in the morning, like, well I'm doing my morning routines D-Caf, I don't have a caffeine till 8 or 9. I just feel better that way. What time are you waking up? 10, 6.50. Between 6.49 and 6.51.

Starting point is 00:58:23 I love that there's a window that's that tight, but still a window. Well, you know, I'm only human, Chris. Yeah. You, too. Speaking of making these little optimizations and, you know, you do it in like a social situation where you might have met people that when they introduce themselves and they say their name and they kind of mumble it or they say it in a weird way or like they've got a name like Iona and they go, I don't know, I don't know, what's something like.

Starting point is 00:58:50 What? And so something I'd like both of you advice on is when you're doing a rep to the exam on someone, the typical thing that people say is can you bear down on my finger and most people are like, they don't understand. But then if you say squeeze my fingers sometimes they'll they'll try and reach around and try and squeeze your finger. So Mike has resorted to saying imagine your mid poo and you have to quickly nip it off and

Starting point is 00:59:21 but I think saying starting a sentence with imagine it's too involved. So just to get while you were describing that, basically I tried to bear down with my bum as I wouldn't do and I squeeze my glutes. But some people think that's flexing. If you think it's relaxed like, yeah, because see in a day, would say push your ass all out. But that's as if you're going to have a have a poo, isn't it?

Starting point is 00:59:48 And the only the other one that I've heard one person use, terrible, is imagine you're trying to suck a straw through your bum. I think that's brilliant. There's a lot of glue activation going on while I try and... So the first one of like, bare down, I think, I think, hit thrust. Whereas when you send a nip off the poo, I might get out exactly what it means. Exactly. You can see, because squeeze my feet, remember like this is people who like,

Starting point is 01:00:09 if you say squeeze my finger and they're not, might be a bit confused, might be a bit delirious, they were, you've got to give them the most. They're also laid on their side on a medical examination bed with their pants around their knees, with a finger at the bottom. So it's, you can't be too, what's your solution? And what's the question? Because you initially say, I think it needs, he can't be too, what's your solution? And what's the question?

Starting point is 01:00:25 Because you initially said, I think nips someone called Iona, and now what you're doing. Yeah, why is this remembering you, Nip? I think trying Nip off my finger is, what did Iona have to do? Or if you've got like, I don't know, what's a name that doesn't work well with my name is,

Starting point is 01:00:39 or I am, I am. What's that going to do with the rectal exam? Because that's one of the optimizations. That's like something that you do a lot, well, I do a lot. I see you like improving a sentence. Yeah, that optimizes it over time. So looking at the things that you do and maybe just like try and stop poo.

Starting point is 01:00:59 I'm not pooing. I'm not pooing. I think Mike's got it. Yeah, it's got it. If all those things, try nip off the poo. I think just imagine you try, imagine you try to stop yourself and poo. What would you do? That's, you haven't, why do they want to do, why do you want to do that? To see if they can hold all those twins. Yeah, but then, but sometimes you get people

Starting point is 01:01:19 that you're like, have you got any pain? Oh, I've got some pain in my chest. You're like, like, you're just saying that and what that that means now is I'm gonna have to do a series of blood tests. I like my pain. Can you feel your bum hole? And you're like, I'm not really in, you're like, you realize the impact of you saying that. It's like this decision.

Starting point is 01:01:35 Can you definitely feel that you're like, right, I will, and then sometimes I'm like, oh, no, actually I can. But then, yeah, anyway. If they knew the consequences of saying, I'm not sure if I can fill my bum hole, a lot more people would say, I can fill my bum hole.

Starting point is 01:01:47 Exactly, because there are people that, and maybe it's just like, someone asks them, do you have this? And then, oh, that's how you're signing up to one of the very, very long email trigger sequences on propane fitness.com, isn't it? If you press the wrong button, you are, we're just 30 days of one email a day.

Starting point is 01:02:03 If you are, if you opt in, that's it. Obviously you can unsubscribe because of GDPR of course. But if you don't, this was great. I have a totally neutral feeling towards someone who directs out on me. Neutral feeling, that's just like you. I think just because I like to think I would only get myself in that position. If it was needed. I can't imagine it being this like someone saying, he goes, oh no, God, what's it to? Because like, well, that needs to happen. Well, the, the, the, I guess that's the good thing. Maybe not. This comes back to like, like, is it life hacks one, oh, one or something where we were saying, would it improve or reduce your enjoyment if the other party

Starting point is 01:02:39 was getting pleasure from it? Yeah, but because most of the time, like the, the person doing it also isn't, that's kind of having a great time either, but just to say, on Peep Show, they ask each other, one of them's like, could you have sex with me, if you had to? And he was like, yeah, as long as I think you weren't enjoying it, I could do it. And he was like, you could have sex with me

Starting point is 01:03:00 if you were raping me, but you couldn't have sex with me. I was so sure. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Okay, that's true. I'm just saying words for the audio people. So, mouse is a iPhone case that is very protective. Their marketing is about throwing it off buildings and all that kind of stuff. And it's a single case you can't store. We've already gone through it. We've gone through it. Well, yeah, because Johnny talked about it. So, oh no, so this is the, it's called a Toro similar to Bookbook, just a basically a leather case. It's because I tried to just final front here only carry my phone around, never do cash. And I got caught out at the barbers, it's having a haircut. The guy was even telling me about,

Starting point is 01:04:02 I was just scumbag, we just did a runner. And he said he was going to go to the cash machine and he just left and he didn't pee. He's like, oh, terrible. I would never do that. And then at the end, he was like, right, 10 pounds. And I was like, do you take card? No, I haven't got it. You haven't even got card with me. I've just got my mask and my phone. So I can't withdraw cash and I can't, you know, I haven't any cash. And then I forgot to return the cash to so I had to get it. So you were the person preemptively that he was talking. We just had to get my girlfriend to go and pay my magnetic thing is you know the the wallet that Chris thing wouldn't let me. Yeah forget about but luckily both does a bunch of things protect your phone if you drop it

Starting point is 01:04:41 can you describe what it is for the people that listen to this? Just another book shaped case. But it's front and back, right? It's not a case. It's actually a screen cover as well. It is. I've had people take the piss out of me at work for being a dad because I think it's a bit dad. I make a lot of dad jokes and I've got a very dad. The last one was very, very Muslim. The last one looked very Muslim. A little miniature sort of religious script. Oh yeah, it was. It was very much. Con. Con.

Starting point is 01:05:10 The other great thing is, if you do a lot of videos, or if you, I guess if you sit on trains and watch, that flex or some things. Standard up as a little. Look at that. You don't even, you should use the AirPods case. Good. Ah, yeah.

Starting point is 01:05:23 I mean, or you water bottle. If you want to pay 250 pounds to your tampons, then you water bottle. If you want to pay 250 pounds to your tampons, then you can, you're ears, then speaking of which, I've lost my iPod Pro case. Oh, I'm crazy. Just the case, but not the buds, but the only guy is 450 quid for anyone.

Starting point is 01:05:36 80 pounds, not bad, it could be worse. I was expecting worse. How much are the pods themselves? I don't know. 70 pounds. Because, is it cheaper to just buy a left pot? You can't, it's not the way they don't know. 70 bucks. Because I don't know. Is it cheaper to just buy a left part? You can't, it's not the way they don't be. Right, let's do, I'll do one more and then we'll do a quick fire round. Um, yes me. So, okay, right, this one, this one's a real, a real hack. So I flew

Starting point is 01:06:02 Emirates a fair bit, this winter. And on both the flight two and the flight back from Dubai to Bali One of my friends was on who's a girl is one of the El Stess's and She gave me a hack of how to get unlimited free internet on Emirates Is it to know one of the Els? And I'm gonna give it. And maybe have had sex with them. Definitely haven't had sex with her. So, point. When you go on Emirates, it'll come up and it'll say,

Starting point is 01:06:35 how do you want, like, on Earth, for Emirates on Earth? And you get to choose, do you want unlimited instant messaging or 20 megabytes of data. 20 megabytes of data is like a trial thing. And then after that, you've got to pay for however much you have after that. Choose the 20 megabytes of data thing. So you don't want to be restricted to just the messaging.

Starting point is 01:06:56 20 megabytes of data. And once you've used it, go back into your settings, go to the Wi-Fi network that you're on, press in on air, the little i, then as you see it, there'll be a bunch of things like a renewal lease and a DCID and other stuff, client ID. That's just three numbers, change those to any other three numbers,

Starting point is 01:07:16 and it will reset, and you can just use 20 megabytes again and just keep going. That is unlimited free internet on every Emirates flight for the rest of time. Have we talked about that when I had that on Emirates? Yes, and you went over somewhere that got you data and then you were going to be charged 700 pounds. Within your three thousand 700 pounds. Three thousand. You fell at, didn't you fall asleep? I fell asleep. So I remember

Starting point is 01:07:41 you message me in your heart and you were telling me I wanted to complain at to. Yeah, I just didn't put my phone in the airplane mode like, where to sleep, 40 minutes into the flight, open my phone, text, welcome to, on air, for my flight. Yeah, and it was like, you were being charged. I pay, I pay a thousand quid for a footage of that moment. I think, I just sat me in three or five of you realizing to come to come to me?

Starting point is 01:08:07 To call not, to go. I just sat missing for the rest of the like 12 mile flight. Right, quick fire round. Final. So my car. Final few. Okay, is it me? Yes.

Starting point is 01:08:20 Eat lean cheese, protein hamper. Elaborate. So this is very against you. So if I had to create a cheese to things to add calories, eat lean. I they make it a standard cheese. You can buy it in Tesco stuff like that. It's very low calorie like deep-fatten cheese. It's very hard, quite flavorless. On the eat lean website, they do loads.

Starting point is 01:08:44 They do like a red laster, they do a smoked one, they do like loads of different cheeses and they do a hamper, they just gives you all of it to try like spreads, dips, everything. They've got a parmesan style one. Yeah, I might as well add it to the parmesan. Quite well to parmesan. So it's close to parmesan. Right. When I ordered it, I knew it was the liquid,id, including delivery. I've just got loads of cheese. It's like a bit of a tense from Johnny. I've just spent 30 pounds on cheese. It's a protein supplement, essentially. Okay. And low fat. Very low fat. Oh, wow. Incredible. That's great. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:09:16 Like, per 100 grams. Do you want me to tell you what the macros are? No. Do you care? No, I'm already on my way, Chris. Okay. Is that I? I do care. Yes, is him. Is him? Is he? So, 100 grams. And it's incredible. To be honest, 100 grams has 36 grams of protein, 3 grams of fat and 2 grams of carbs.

Starting point is 01:09:37 What's the rest of it? Yeah, just protein. That's the first question, both of them. I'm going to see. I'm going to see. I'm going to see. I'm going to see. 36 grams of protein. I just want to know what's the matter made up of?

Starting point is 01:09:49 I mean, when you eat it, you can tell there's not much facet. You don't eat it, don't you? Creamy. Delicious. You eat it and think that's safe to eat. Close enough to cheese. But you reset your own set point to that. If you've been drinking red milk for ages, then you try blue milk.

Starting point is 01:10:04 Same as my beef isolate, this is crazy. Same as my beef isolate protein thing. You just becomes normal. As opposed to the column that you have into. So like, for the cup to get the same calories from not even like low calorie cheese, you're just adding so much bollocks to your calories. But you said you couldn't get this particular cheese

Starting point is 01:10:22 in the store. You can get that standard one in the shop. So can I get, if I find a particular type of cheese in that hamper that I like, you can get it from the website, not from the shop. Yeah, but can I get like, can I double down on the red laster? Absolutely.

Starting point is 01:10:35 Oh, absolutely. You get it. Lovely, right, Seth? Hello, glass. No, I'll wear glass. No, our glass. No, Johnny. Very glass. Our glass.

Starting point is 01:10:55 So we've been using various Pomodoro timer apps recently. And actually, if the task that you're doing in a Pomodoro is not digital, or you just don't want a digital distraction, having an analog timer is brilliant. You should support me and Johnny for Christmas, a one hour, beautiful brass and glass. Hourglass. I know for a brand. It's a brass and glass, yeah. Would it be for prostitutes to shit on tables in front of you?

Starting point is 01:11:27 Brass and glass. It sounds like a trendy barbershop or somewhere. Yeah, it's like this. They also do tattoos. Be like a bar where it's medical fighting, but it's all like hips to kind of. Yeah, it feels a bit stale. Yeah, I imagine like a dark bar where they do cocktails that have steam coming out of. Anyone who's out there that needs a name for a brand.

Starting point is 01:11:48 If anyone steals that idea, we will drag these glasses to you faster than you know what's happening. Yeah, the hourglass, I know our hourglass was lovely. And how did you spend your New Year's Eve? I didn't have any kind of invites or anything for that's interesting actually because I didn't have any invites to anything either on New Year's Eve. Johnny, what did you do on your New Year's Eve? I went to Wilburry. What did you do before that? Have the people that were going to Wilburry at my house?

Starting point is 01:12:19 That sounds really nice. Do you think I really have nice sounds? I like this kind of thing to do. I like this kind of thing to, that sounds like a party. Well, I mean, not really. Because I spoke to Deb Gibson in the gym earlier and I said, what are you doing tonight? He said, I'm going to Johnny's for a party. He's having a party at his house.

Starting point is 01:12:34 So that's not. Then I text you and I said, hi mate, what are you doing tonight? And you said, going to Wyland Brewery because that's what I did. And you came round to my house? On New Year's Eve. You just before? And I said, what are you doing on New Year's Eve? You're going to join his party. And you won.

Starting point is 01:12:51 What is that? What party? What is it? So I can see why you're both upset. But it's not how. I feel like you've been given a slither of information from... I know that you went to Wyland. What are your breweries?

Starting point is 01:13:03 Well, I just feel... I mean, so wouldn't it have been nice if we'd even just early before, even just an invite. So I come around for, for 60 minutes and then go, see you later. I would have been a likes that. Could have set the glass. I would have set the glass. Time.

Starting point is 01:13:17 Is that what, what it was related to? It's like, I come round, twist Johnny's hourglass and then be when it expires. I would have just liked to have been involved. I mean what did you do? What not that? But what did you do? I ended up going to work. Why did you invite me? To work, yeah. I knew you're at Wyland Brewery. I could have gone to your house before Wyland Brewery. Oh I could have gone to work instead of Wyland Brewery. You couldn't have tickets. I don't have tickets. Anyway, we've been planning that right. In case you. Anyway, we've been planning that for a little while. In case you didn't know, we've been planning that for a little while.

Starting point is 01:13:48 It felt planned. It felt quite nasty in a bit. It was. It was. So hourglass. Where did you get that hourglass from? Amazon, the guilt shop. From the guilt shop.

Starting point is 01:13:59 So what's really, really sad, and I felt guilty about this, was my girlfriend for Christmas, after I'd ordered three hour glasses, but they were still coming in the post. They were still coming in the post, and one of the presents I unwrapped it, and I was like, I think I know what this is, and it was in hour glass, but it wasn't as nice as the Brass and Glass special one. And she was like, I've been looking for bloody ages to find a 20 minute timer, so you can do a Pomodoro in it. And I found one eventually after hours of looking,

Starting point is 01:14:31 it's 20 minutes, so you can dip down like, I'm so nice of you, man. Pomodoro's 25 minutes. And also, I've got a really nice one coming. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I prefer it out. How'd you get a B-focused pro? Yeah. I prefer it out. How would you be focused pro?

Starting point is 01:14:46 Yeah. I think an hour is a better amount of time than 25 minutes. Just two pulmodorus. Yeah. Because 25 minutes, I would feel like I'm going to cut off in my flow. There's a little bit of that. Okay, my final one. Do the washing up to the pots and pans and utensils immediately after cooking. Otherwise it gets hard.

Starting point is 01:15:08 It's so wet. It's just so easy. It is 30 seconds now or two minutes tomorrow. That's it. And you're waiting for the food to cool or you're scales or whatever, like you've put it away, I just clear it up, clear it up, two, like 30 seconds, with round, job done. And it is a great, it is a game changer. So that's it for today, thank you for tuning in. We have, what the hell? Johnny had his quick fire. Oh, I don't know, you do it too much.

Starting point is 01:15:38 You do it too much. Johnny, do you know the one? I've got some bonus rounds. I've got some quick fires. No, I don't know, we've but saving them to life at 112, 112. And you fucking run out with them either day, and looking at you now, they're spraying them all over.

Starting point is 01:15:49 Sonic Air toothbrush, I said it. Ah, okay, I'll put this over. That's about it. Yeah, yeah. So Beckett was waiting for the boxing day sale for quite a long time to get us both these Phillips Sonic Air toothbrushes. Yeah. So if you've either got one or had one,

Starting point is 01:16:05 I think I've got one. Yes. Right. Okay. So what I like about it is this is golf. I have a Philips. I know I have a toothbrush. I've got an electronic Philips one that was quite expensive. So yeah, so about 70 quid. It was 70 quid in the sale. Maybe, yeah, it might be quite a bit more. Yeah. So the great thing about it is you press the button and then it goes for two minutes and it has a quadrant timer. Yeah. So you do like the bottom quarter and then it goes. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:16:31 And then you go to the top quarter and the case that you carry it in has a USB charger on the bottom of it. It's just brilliant. I feel really enthusiastic about brushing my teeth. None of this is game-changing, but I'm aware, is this your first venture into electric toothbrush world? So I had a cheap shit electric. I think if you haven't had got one, or ever used one, it's a game-share, big step up.

Starting point is 01:16:54 So mine, I was the same. I've gone from complete just manual. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like using a manual car, and then realizing, I don't eat it, the fuck does that do? Yeah, that's good. I'm still waiting to invest in a water flotter. I haven't got one now.

Starting point is 01:17:10 If you got one. I've got one, but I'm wavering a bit. I've been using, so it's nice. But then it still has a bit of flotter. I'm using the sticks and the little dry loads of and the bristle brush things. They make me bleed. Yeah, they're very cool.

Starting point is 01:17:23 Why are you not using you? I am, but it's a water flotter. So you have got one. Yeah, it does make me bleed. Yeah, they're very cool. Why are you not using you? I am, but it's... What a flotter. So you have got one? Yeah, it does make you feel more fresh, but I still feel like getting in between the teeth. Still, I'd love to know what a dentist's opinion on that is. David Brenn will be listening.

Starting point is 01:17:35 David Brenn will be listening because he's just had a kid and he's got nothing to do except for just clean poo. So... David Brenn, please let us know. Not poo on teeth. Do you have to pee on teeth. The internet is way tongue-dab it. Anyway, Jensen thank you very much. Pleasure we've got some left over. Like Faxx 112 it's been like four months since we did the last one so it won't be as long

Starting point is 01:17:55 for the next one I promise. Don't forget to get a case of barebells all you need to do. Share the episode, tag me online and I'll choose someone to do it. propnfitness.com will be linked in the show notes below along with everything else that we've Share the episode, tag me online and I'll choose someone to do it. ProPenFitness.com will be linked in the show notes below, along with everything else that we've gone through, like share and subscribe. You know, to do also, if you follow the links down there, it will be supporting the podcast. And if anyone wants to come to my new year's party next year, except these two. Yeah, more than welcome.

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