Modern Wisdom - #234 - Life Hacks 202

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, my friends. Welcome back. It is the return of the long awaited Lifehack series. Sit back and enjoy as we run through our favorite tools, apps, websites, strategies, resources, and more for a productive and efficient life with Johnny and you, surf from propanefitness.com. So today, expect to learn how to properly use, why being cold when you sleep is great. Use your best suggestion for how to use your spare time, how to hide tags on Instagram stories, whether a personal sauna is any good, why my toilet has hot water in it,

Starting point is 00:00:35 and many, many, many more. Obviously, if you have any life hacks that you think that we need to add to our lives, feel free to get at me, at ChrisWillX on all social media, just drop me a DM and if it is any good I might try it and if it's bad then absolutely definitely not going to try it. and you, Seth. I'm just really impressed. I'm just really impressed. I'm just really impressed. I'm just really impressed. I'm just really impressed. I'm just really impressed.

Starting point is 00:01:32 I'm just really impressed. I'm just really impressed. I'm just really impressed. I'm just really impressed. I'm just really impressed. I'm just really impressed. I'm just really impressed. I'm just really impressed. I'm just really impressed. I'm just really impressed. Is this to keep it away from the other fruit because bananas produce a gas that makes other fruit ripen prematurely. Yeah, I got a new

Starting point is 00:01:49 bananas, you know, Gina what happens? I learned I learned that from trying to freeze bananas. They just like they you think like our freeze Banana and then I like add it to my smoothie or whatever and then you take it out until they're all bruising me Really? Yeah, they're very sensitive souls, aren't they bananas? Yeah, they're like the problem friend of the fruit family, aren't they? Yeah, they're just, and then they infect, they kind of infect everyone else as well,

Starting point is 00:02:14 and they speed up their, they're aging. So yes, welcome back, life hacks. If you are not familiar with the life hack series, we go through a round table, each giving a tool, app, process, food, any other particular type of strategy we've found for a productive and efficient life, and then we riff on how good or bad they are. So, Johnny, what have you got for us today? Of course. Of course, a hot potato for you. What have you got for us? of course of course a hot potato for you what have you got for us okay so this is actually one that I borrowed from a guy who's been coaching me which is nutritional yeast

Starting point is 00:03:11 Great reaction. I'm so curious about what it is. Putting nutritional yeast on eggs specifically. Okay. So nutritional yeast is like very nutrient dense. So it can apparently, this is lifted from from the internet contains all nine essential amino acids Beavittamins, tracemen rolls, zinc, selenium, manganese, all that good stuff and it just tastes makes eggs taste just a little bit cheesy Okay, there's that really easy way when you if you having eggs, just a little sprinkle. Is it powder? It's a powder, yeah. Well, it's flakes. Ah, see, I've got yeast as capsules. Similar reasons.

Starting point is 00:03:52 Like, is it nutritional yeast? Brewers yeast. Yeah, so that's different. Is it? I think so. I mean, I don't know my yeast very well to be honest. To be honest, neither did I. Welcome back to yeast hour here on Modern Wisdom. yeast 101. I thought when I say yeast, someone's going to say,

Starting point is 00:04:11 well, why would you take yeast off of it? I thought, well, I better have something to say there. Absolutely. Did a Google. But I think they're different. There's just a way of like, you know, I suppose that is the definition of a life hack, right? Just a little,

Starting point is 00:04:22 something a little you can do that just gets slightly more up. It makes your eggs taste better, cognitive performance, links to testosterone, got microbiome, like a lot of good stuff with this. How long have you been using it, Johnny? Three months. Yeah. It's just like, so you get it and it comes in this really sort of You know, if you imagine like opening your grandparents kitchen cupboard and some of the things you some of the like your jars and tub It looks like something that would fit in in that sort of setting Okay, and it you like smell it and it smells a bit million the added to eggs tastes great Nice, so there you go. There we go. Yeast I wasn't I was not expecting that of all of the different things that we've gone through. I did not expect yeast to be the first one.

Starting point is 00:05:09 ESA, what you got? iOS 14 has just come out and for people who, well, for you guys, I'm not sure if you're aware actually, but I split my life hacks suggestions into physical and digital. So I don't know why, why haven't you just said that from the beginning? I shouldn't have really specified. Yeah. So iOS 14 has a new feature called BackTap where you can set functions where if you tap

Starting point is 00:05:41 on the back of the screen, it does a certain thing. Hang on, if I go, is that Johnny, Johnny, is that a dog? Who the heck are you? I'm going to hand over. And you tap on the back of the screen. So if I do this, just narrate what you're doing for people at the point, so I'm opening a, let's say, back tap life hacks. I've written that as a note. Yeah. And then if I tap three times on the back of the phone

Starting point is 00:06:12 Wow So it reads out what you're saying if you tap three times on the back it reads out the screen or if you tap twice on the back for me It opens tick tick and plans my day the back. For me, it opens tick tick and plans my day. That's pretty cool. So hold on, just to clarify, do you have to, is writing the word back tap and that's certain, rather than to pause, just an example. No, that was just an example. So if you have the books app open and you want it to read to you while you have a poo or something, just tap three times on the back, put it over on the sink. So I'm guessing that this is the same as with AirPods,

Starting point is 00:06:49 you can custom set either two taps or three taps to do one of a number of different items. Do you know what else there is other than open an app and plan your day or? Oh, yes, so anything that's Siri, you can even use it to pay someone, but I wouldn't do that, because then you could end up like. Well, my, I think most people's Siri, you can even use it to pay someone, but I wouldn't do that, because then you could end up like...

Starting point is 00:07:05 Well, I think most people, like if you double tap your lock screen, my cards and my wallet comes up, I think that's for most people. I really like how iPhone are making something that has very few buttons, super versatile, like how can we really squeeze the lemon of all these like haptic sensors and things to just have as many controls as possible. It's cool that they've done allowing tapping on the back of the screen. Well, back to the phone. What would you use up on it, Johnny? What would you use?

Starting point is 00:07:39 Well, so I actually have a life hack related to the new iOS. Have you updated? I have it. Is it SlinBeater? Is it in full? Yeah, I think it's full. Full chat. Not. Is it?

Starting point is 00:07:52 Like that. It's my home screen. Oh, okay, right. Yeah, I haven't done it yet. I should update. I thought you'd send a screenshot of like a... That was a friend Nick who turned his entire phone in black in gray scale yeah no that was a guy made a hundred K in a few days from selling those

Starting point is 00:08:13 icon packs really bloody hell he was just ready positioned have these little icons and as soon as I phone launched it was like boom. I'll be going. Just quickly you said where do you change these settings just in? I think if you go to settings and you search back tap. Right. What would you have your set as Jenny or what you think for your two and your three? So one would be capture because I think that's all when I need to get something open on my phone, it's almost always like quickly, it's almost always that, so don't forget it.

Starting point is 00:08:48 So what will that be? Will that be like add a new entry to OmniFocus? Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. So you could, that would be perfect. Add a new entry. You can do it to like open calendar in three day view or day planning mode, resume a podcast or whatever on sleep timer. day planning mode resume a podcast or whatever on sleep timer. I think how often you go into sleep that you need to resume a podcast on sleep time. Jesus. I use sleep time quite a lot now. It's great.

Starting point is 00:09:20 Why? Because you're going to sleep or just if there's something you want to listen to as you go to sleep You can say turn off after 10 minutes Right, yeah, that's why you asked me. I don't know whether you can say that you use that quite a lot because you're not using it at max Any more than once a day That's true. It's cap, doesn't it? I don't I don't go to sleep more than once a day Sometimes I just go to sleep three times a day, so I get to use the sleep timer.

Starting point is 00:09:48 But you're using it maybe seven times a week, that's the way. Yeah, but you're right. You're so excited about a feature that you're altering your diurnal pattern, so that you can use it more. That's when you know Apple looks like off the back. Really good. Okay, so mine, my first one, one that I've been meaning to talk about for a while, which is how to hide a tag on Instagram stories.

Starting point is 00:10:16 So you may have seen people do this before that you can write up, everyone will know you can tag other users on your Instagram stories that permits that user to repost the story or it just alerts them that they've been tagged in it. But a lot of the time, especially if you're trying to get another call to action out, like a swipe up or a DM me or a access poll, people that open loop of, oh, that's a new person, just distract people from what you're trying to get them to do. So I guess it stems from a principle that I've relied from what you're trying to get them to do. So I guess

Starting point is 00:10:45 it stems from a principle that I've relied on a lot with trying to drive traffic from my Instagram, which is to only have one clickable or actionable thing per story. So if you are doing something that involves trying to get people to swipe up and it's got other users in it, feel free to tag them, but get it off the screen. And the way to do that is to write out the tags. And then if you press on the text with one finger and then you can swipe to make it smaller, everyone will know how to do that. But if you move that first finger across to the edge of the screen and just keep making the text smaller, because the return curves exponential, it eventually just flies off the edge of the screen. So it's no longer visible, it's no longer clickable, but it retains the tag, it still does the notification, it still

Starting point is 00:11:30 allows the other person to repost, and you can actually get away with doing, I think you can max out on 10 tags, I don't tend to like spam tag on stories, but let's say this week, an episode with Ryan Holiday went up, that's Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic, Penguin, Random House, Profile Books, Portfolio Books, Modern Wisdom Life, and blah, blah, blah, blah. I can do all of that, throw it across onto the far side, and just have one swipe up. They'll all get a notification,

Starting point is 00:11:58 which might encourage them to repost, or at least say, hey, I'm doing some work over here. And the user, or the view, is not going to be distracted from that. It's like everyone should use it. One call to action per story. So if you are going to tag someone and you want them to click on the profile, just have that essentially. Yeah, for sure, especially if you're going to try and drive traffic to someone as I recently do a photo shoot with Dean and I want to drive some traffic to Dean, because thank you

Starting point is 00:12:22 for the photo shoot, like new new shot from Heinmach, whatever it might be. So it's not when, because we'll sometimes get a tag in something where, you know, it's like someone offering you Instagram subscribers or something and there's like loads of tags in the image. Is that what they're doing? Image or story? Story. Yes.

Starting point is 00:12:43 Right. Or I mean, you could go through the like the classic year 11 need to get my word count up hack of writing loads of text in and then turning the text the same color as the screen. You know, like turning all of the text white. So then when you run the word count, it actually says like two and a half thousand words. So you could go. It's my answer for year 11. Yeah, no, no. Well, I went to Stockton and Grangefield six form mates. So you learn how to circumvent all the rules in the most of the black tactics. When half the girls in your class are pregnant, you grow up first. Is that going to make it into the trailer?

Starting point is 00:13:22 Probably. Okay. So nutritional yeast iOS 14 back tap and hide tag on Instagram stories. Can we also just as a footnote to iOS 14 say, do not, I repeat, do not upgrade your iOS until it is fully released. And even then, my advice would be to wait at least two weeks after release. So this has happened to me before where you've tried to enroll me in the Scooby Pyramid scheme where he's the multi level marketing that is. The MLM. So you've served on the beta. So many stories attached to that. Right, you're on the beta scheme for like iOS,

Starting point is 00:14:03 for Mac and the new, like whatever is Mac, Mac, I was. Yeah. And I've learned the lesson that Chris has just mentioned there, the hard way, because I think everyone's like, oh, don't use beta on your primary device. And I was like, ah, that's really excited about it. But the beta, like, it's really unstable. Like, to the point where you can't use your spacebar because it just crashes the computer, it just turns it off. So didn't you have to adapt your typing for a very long time? I had to just keep space on the clipboard and just do control V every time I wanted to space.

Starting point is 00:14:39 But then that becomes muscle memory. And then when you update to the proper one, you end up just pasting random characters. So that was that was macOS not. I've done iOS, Bacer as well. But if you want to use your phone less and you want a really buggy phone that crashes all the time, be my guest. Great. I was 15 beta. We'll just get Android. Yeah, you'll never be able to use it. Take that and just think, you know what it's not worth. And piece of shit. Right, Johnny, what you got? So mine's also related to the new iOS, which is so everyone's probably seen the shortcuts thing that appeared on iOS, like probably the last update.

Starting point is 00:15:22 Is it to you? You said, you know what, you said for those what I mean? You know what I mean? No, I have shortcuts on your home screen to say like pay a specific person or play a specific audio book or whatever. A form of specific set of actions. Okay. So I now have my home screen as I could couple of shortcuts. So one is turn on low power mode.

Starting point is 00:15:41 It's the single button. Turn on low power mode. Today's forecast and omnifocus capture something in on me focus or call backer. Those are like the, so like a sat really thought about this. I was like, one of the things that when I pick up my phone, I normally am about to do and then end up on Reddit or Instagram for 20 minutes. I was like, well, it's probably those key things. So those are the key things on the homepage

Starting point is 00:16:10 and then beneath that is just screen time. So it's just like, here's what you can't do. Don't be a dick. Here's how much of an asshole you are. And then the second screen is apps that have a specific, like, benefit and then everything else is just in the app library. So you won't see in this Chris, but all apps are now just put in the library. So you have to search for something if you want to actually find it. I love your idea of having screen time on the homepage, just a constant gilting reminder.

Starting point is 00:16:43 But the shortcuts things, like you can really get into it, can't you? There's a lot of stuff you can do with, like, I've got very, very basic, like the pre-made ones from the specific apps, but you can design your own essentially. That's good. I haven't even seen, I don't know where I've been, I just feel like this whole iOS 14 has passed me by. When did it get released? How long ago? Like a week ago, it's two to two. Normally, you just have asked me within like three to four hours,

Starting point is 00:17:11 whether I've upgraded to an up to zero. That's me being patient. I'll give them a little hours. Johnny, Johnny, I think I had to actually go and start the update though. You know, normally getting notifications saying your phone will update between 2am and.m. mind didn't do it for this. Yeah, mind neither. I'm actually, I've just done it there, I've set it away downloading how long it's this going to take. Oh, I mean, it's brilliant. I think it's one of the best OS upgrades they've done recently. Just that, just a customization, because like suddenly you can turn your phone into something that you would prefer it to be rather than just, I can't move eye message. just that just customization because like suddenly you can turn your phone into something that

Starting point is 00:17:49 you would prefer it to be rather than just I can't move our message. So I'm anticipating all the Android users commenting on this. We've had those widgets since 2014. Yeah, but I don't want to use an Android. It's awful. Like people who ride bikes being all smirk when petrol prices go up, it's like, yeah, but you can only cycle as fast as you can cycle. It's like I've got an engine.

Starting point is 00:18:13 Mm-hmm, nice. Yeah. Seth, what you got? Having a default fallback activity. So, you know, when there's moments in the day where you're just on standby mode and you're just like I'd like to hold it. Yeah, just in a holding button. And the amount of time that you just on that standby mode, like some people use it to scroll

Starting point is 00:18:35 their phone, some people stare at the wall. If you have a default one, then you instantly like overcome resistance to things that you normally would never get done. So my fallback activity for this month is clearing my messy downloads folder. All the stuff that just gets bunged in there and it's from four years ago, it's not relevant, or photos on your phone that you've taken from holiday and you haven't sorted it out. or like photos on your phone that you've taken from holiday and you haven't sorted yet. You could do it with reading, do it with meditating. Meditating is a bit of a hard one

Starting point is 00:19:10 because it's quite a resource intensive activity. You want something that's like low effort, like clearing a folder or tidying, a wardrobe or something that's just like a big project that you can just chip away at in those dead moments. I thought you were gonna say handstands. Oh, handstands would be great as well. Well, you do. You spontaneously invert all the time.

Starting point is 00:19:33 Yeah, suppose actually, yeah, I'm conscious one. Like if the kettle's boiling or whatever, I'll just be like, just hold a handstand for as long as it takes to boil the kettle. I'm trying not to fall onto the kettle. You know, disaster. Yeah, you did it. There's been a couple of times where you've done it with like, takes to boil the kettle. Try not to fall onto the kettle. You know, disaster. Yeah, you did it. There's been a couple of times where you've done it with like,

Starting point is 00:19:48 all of us will have our laptops out on the floor around you. They'll happen to be a bunch of mouse traps in the corner and there's a slowly counting down atomic bomb over the far side. Didn't you ever work? Yeah. If you can do it on the stakes of that high, though. Peace, Piss.

Starting point is 00:20:07 I really like that. I really like that. I like to fall back to activity thing, man. And you've got any other ideas on what else you could. Reading, having a kindle on you at all times, this is Tim Ferriss, one of Tim Ferriss's number one hacks and Ryan Holidays as well for increasing your reading is to have something to read with you all times. But you can't read what isn't there, obviously, and Akindel makes it more convenient for that. So just having it on your desk and opening it up, you know, you could chip away and probably

Starting point is 00:20:37 fit another book in a month just in spare time. Now it would have to be something like the Almanac of Naval Ravakant, which you could pick up and put down, something like the psychology of Money by Morgan House, or again, like short, perhaps more aphoristic stuff, or just fiction that you're not really that asked about, like, linking all of the key concepts together. But that would be great. I was just thinking about how much buffering time I have to let. Like just sit and get away.

Starting point is 00:21:10 Like exporting audio files for this show, it's like a two minute job to get it out of a garage band, a two minute job to master it, a two minute job to upload it. And in each of those, I just immediately default to the path of least resistance and the most sort of convenient, immediately gratifying thing, which tends to be, I'll send a tweet, or I'll go on YouTube, I'll do this thing. And that two minutes expands out into five or 10,

Starting point is 00:21:37 and then I go to go back, and then it's another two, five or 10, and then another 10, and I'm not fucking half an hour, I do a six minute job. So dangerous. So actually, we already all have full back behaviors but when we're not conscious about them, like yeah, for me if it's like checking a inbox or messages or something and then yeah, you're just suddenly down the rabbit hole.

Starting point is 00:21:56 What would you think that might be the best life hack either of a good thing? I think that, I think that really could be. So what would you, let's try and think of a way that we can trigger it a little bit more for people. Like, is it as you check your phone, as you notice that you're doing something, put it down and go to something else? Because you need the input. Right. Sorry. I thought you just talked and I wasn't just trying like full those. No, no, no, tell me.

Starting point is 00:22:21 So the use of thing about checking inboxes, that's definitely my, like, if I've got,es there, that's definitely my, like, if I've got, if there's a gap in something, like, specifically email, I'm terrible with email. I have no control over email. email has a full control over me. But it's totally, like, mindless. Like, I'm like, oh, check if I haven't got an email in the last 34 seconds.

Starting point is 00:22:40 You're like, why is that a helpful pattern? So I suppose, so what I've done on my Mac is I just have cold turkey just you know, I was just blocked 100% of the time. And then it is great. It just is not out of your hands. Well, so it just has notification at the top right. Just going, I remember, but then it's started tracking how many times it blocks an app on a day and it's honestly, it's embarrassing.

Starting point is 00:23:04 How many times does it block you trying to access your email? 30 to 40 times the first time I turned it on. I think just really think about that. How long had I been allowed to do what I wanted to do there? How long I would have spent on email? Presuming it was at least two minutes per time. Miner. What I love about the key is that it quits it before it even has a chance to open. It was at least two minutes per time. Miner. One. I love a box, because it quits it before it even has a chance to open. It's like you go and beat you behind after the pizza box.

Starting point is 00:23:31 And it just. But so if you have, if you find, so as you said, like everyone already has that, right? Like whether it's on your phone or on your laptop or any device. So if you find what the thing is, try and block it. And then when you go to do that, that's the reminder. Why? So you find what the thing is, try and block it, and then when you go to do that, that's

Starting point is 00:23:45 the reminder. Why? So, you had to open the app. Why would you sit around buffering, waiting on your email inbox? Why would that be a time for a fallback activity for you, Johnny? It would be like if I'm uploading something or Siri's going again. It's always when I'm speaking to you guys at Siri activates. Just wants to be a part of the show, man.

Starting point is 00:24:10 Oh, weird. It, like, even things like if there's a loading time on the thing I'm doing, or if I, like, so screen flow is a big one, if I'm like waiting for something to export or upload, even if it's like four or five minutes, I know that's probably not what you're referring to. No, no, no, that's what I mean. I'm just trying to work out sort of why people are going to be able to find these moments, but it definitely identifies the fact that our threshold for boredom has been lowered by so much that even a 30 second weight is unbearable.

Starting point is 00:24:52 And that's not so recent. Like I remember when we were teenagers and you'd have to like go take something to the post office via mom or whatever and you'd be standing in the queue and you would just be like staring at the checkout. For 25 minutes while Doris picks out her pennies and gets the travel money transferred and all that. And it was just fine. Yeah. Being on the bus, man, like taking a bus when you were a kid, it's so, it's what even more bizarre is that there are people listening to this show right now who are so young that they've never grown up without technology and literally don't know that there was a world only 10 years ago that wasn't like this. People would go to a cafe and just drink a coffee. Just sit there. Like a psychopath. Yeah, that's it. Now people are like,

Starting point is 00:25:47 oh, he's a psychopath. Absolutely lunatic. The thing that's weird for me is thinking that probably like 99, maybe not quite that. I think it was one year of school life where Facebook existed. It was the first year that I went to uni, it's 2006 and you needed to have a university email address. To get on it. So, I was slightly after that. So, I think it was 2007 for me, and I set up my profile, which was my final year of school.

Starting point is 00:26:15 And it was such early adoption that you were tagged in a photo and it's like, bruh, brilliant, you know. Exciting. How novel this is. Whereas now, if you look at people's screen time on just those devices, especially people of that age and how long they've spent on those devices by the time they're, but anyway, this is.

Starting point is 00:26:33 We're going down. We're going down. But so the, like, another sign of that, I think, especially really trying to work, if that keeps happening, if you keep defaulting back to your default activity, it's probably a sign that just like, take 10 minutes. Like it's your mind just resisting the thing

Starting point is 00:26:53 that you're doing. I love that man. I think I never really thought about that before though. So if that's a, like everyone just has this, like, thing they consistently do is usually pointless. It's so insidious, because we don't think about it and it just sneaks up. But it's more like your baseline activity. It's just what you do when you're not doing another thing, which used to be existing, but now is TikTok or fucking people that are like

Starting point is 00:27:20 pathologically addicted to doing Sudoku or whatever. Wow. It's a downgrade, isn't it? He used to be existing, and now it's something that's, I think, worse than existing. I agree. My next one, which I totally forgot and didn't even write down, totally links in with yours, which is never take your phone to the toilet. There we go. Really easy way to just reduce your screen time, and an even better thing to do, which is you guys have been in my house You'll know this all of the bathrooms that you've got in your house just have some hot water

Starting point is 00:27:55 For anyone that doesn't know The water that comes through Chris's toilets is piping hot The people that built the extension on the side of my house previously got the cold and hot water plumbed wrong into the toilet, which means that when you flush it, boiling hot water comes through the toilet, which means that it's the cleanest toilet I've ever seen, obviously. True. But it's also the most expensive toilet because it triggers the boiler every time you flush. But yeah, the best hack for that, have a couple of books.

Starting point is 00:28:29 Like again, easy pick me up, you put me down, you type things or do whatever. But if you have a couple of areas, and this expands out into a wider strategy about having no phone zones within your house. So I have a strict now trying to make it stricter, no phones in the bedroom rule. So if I want to use my phone, I have to go in the kitchen to use it. There is nothing, unless you're a Windows and Android, in which case, like,

Starting point is 00:28:56 sorry, but there is really nothing that you can do on your phone that you can't do on your computer. Instagram, you can do, even just through the web app, Instagram.com, you can go on your direct messages through there. You can do most of the things you need to WhatsApp web, I message email, Twitter for desktop, messenger.com for Facebook. You can do all of the shit that you do on your phone without any of the compulsive, banging and banging and the terrible posture that you get from it.

Starting point is 00:29:30 So yeah, like no-go zones for your phone and specifically the easiest one for that to start with is just leave the phone wherever you are when you go to the bathroom because it turns a two-minute movement into a 10-minute phone hole scroll. And you've created like a better alternative in your toilet. You've got lots of kind of dipty in books, like easy books to just... Yeah, sure. Dipty in the hot water, yeah. Right, Johnny, what you got? Just something, just quickly just attached to that. Someone that I was speaking to recently said they only allow themselves to check social media for five minutes after a meal.

Starting point is 00:30:08 So he knows that it's only going to happen three to four times a day. And it has a like that's just his habit. So like the rule is, if I'm not just eaten, I'm not allowed on social media. How do I think it's stick to? Can you see how that might end up being a perverse incentive there? Yeah, you can always rig the game, can't you? But then you just never use your bedroom to sleep. Never go to the toilet. What's the guy called Steven Kovie?

Starting point is 00:30:33 Is it the one who wrote Freakonomics? Yeah. He was trying to train his daughter to use the potty. And he was like, I'll create an incentive, which is, you get an M&M. A peanut M&M every time you use the potty properly. My Johnny would hate that, but.

Starting point is 00:30:49 Kill me. This would, and so she got really good at it really quickly, but he said she ended up getting so good that she would go over, do like a drop of wheat, and then come back and be like, it's like, ah, damn. So dogs do stuff like this. That's, I observe that behavior in dogs constantly. Where I like, if you treat them as a reward, they figure out, like, the...

Starting point is 00:31:11 Game of the system. The activity to require the treat. Clavicle. Clavicle. Dic. Can I have any little things? Johnny. So.

Starting point is 00:31:20 Blobson. ELO. The Jonathan. This is quite a knee one for me. Lobson The... Jonathan This is quite a new one for me But it's the chili pad Did you buy one? I did Shit the bed, have you forced back it to use it?

Starting point is 00:31:37 So there was like a long, very serious conversation about whether we were going to buy the double or the single and I bought the single. Because she generally doesn't get too hot in like generally I'm hot at night and generally she isn't, she's the opposite which obviously creates a mismatch. But basically for anyone who doesn't know what that is, it is a water cooled mattress topper. So there's a unit that sits to the side of your bed, which you pour water in, it cools the water and then pumps the water through little pipes in the mattress, and you can set the temperature. The theory is it makes you sleep deeper, and obviously, if you feel a hard wake-up hot at night, it solves that problem. So far, noticeable improvement, which is cool. Based on just anecdotal,

Starting point is 00:32:30 I feel more rested based on HIV and some stats from the trap. Tracked sleep day, yeah. So it hasn't changed Rem at all, it hasn't changed wake up times at all But it has like bumped my deep sleep up. I like 30% What about time to sleep the latency has it improved that I mean my my latency's ridiculous. It's like three minutes Really? Yeah, like I am I get into bed and I am out That's such a classic big guy thing to do isn't it? That everyone over six foot and 90 kilos is able to fall asleep. Yeah, able to fall asleep supported by their own weight. And they don't, the head doesn't drop either. They're just like that.

Starting point is 00:33:10 Yeah, just, it's just standby. Just be a stand by mode. Yeah. But it's cool, like, it's expensive. They're like 450 quid for a single for a single the difference between what what do they claim the difference is between using a thin weighted blanket and having a cooling thing underneath you a thin weighted blanket so because presumably you still have a quilt but that's more sort of precious sensation than the heat well no it's to keep than the heat. Well, no, it's to keep... I don't know. I'm losing too much heat. So you're saying why not just use a thinner mattress?

Starting point is 00:33:51 Dispense with the do-of-the-do rather than pay for the... Yeah, I mean question one would be why not do that, but then the answer usually is I want some kind of pressure sensation like we're adapted to have pressure on us when we sleep. So then the next solution is, well, have something that's weighted but thin. Yeah, so I think the problem you're solving there is separate. So this is most people who don't have an air-conditioning unit can't achieve the temperature that the chili pad creates in their bedroom. So like even with window open, you probably would find that the room was warmer, especially if there's like two people sleeping in the room, you probably find that

Starting point is 00:34:33 the room was warmer than the temperature you ended up sleeping on. What temperature have you gone for? It's like 16 degrees. That's cold, fucking hell. Yeah, yeah. So I have worked up one time, and that's when you realise, like, 3am, you know, I'm cold here. Like, to the point where I'm maybe going to have to turn it off.

Starting point is 00:34:55 But if you get back to sleep again, it is just like, you just like out. Have you, um, can you feel the pipes at all? Obviously, people might think I have a really nice bed. I don't want to interact with the way that it feels when I lie down. Some people complain that you can't, I can't personally. They're very, very, very small. It's like the princess and the pea thing, isn't it? I suppose it's how sensitive you are to what you're lying on, but I can't feel it personally. And I think if you can, just gain a few kilos of muscle and...

Starting point is 00:35:26 Yeah. propinifitness.com slash calculator. There we go. Absolutely. Great question. Can you not get the chili pad double and then only turn one half of it on? Is that not one of the settings that they have? You can.

Starting point is 00:35:41 But Beckett, Beckett's argument was, I'm never going to need my side, therefore why waste the money on my side. I think she thought like it's expensive. It's a problem. I don't feel like I have. So I'm not just going to spend the money for sake of it. Yeah. What about having two single doves? So she has a thick one and you have a thin one. Seth, please. I think Scandinavian style. So what what your methods? So your methods great for like my room is my room is the right temperature, but the blanket is causing me to be too hot. So it removed the blanket or get a thin blanket that creates the same feeling of being right. But that, unless your room is cold enough, which maybe it is, but I think most people, it isn't. Then you need like a cooling device. So option one is an air conditioning unit,

Starting point is 00:36:26 which are incredibly expensive. Option two is a local air conditioning unit, which is a bedjet that plugs into the bottom of your bed. Option three is a chili pad. Nice. I think also the regulating aspect of it is quite useful because I like my room hot at night freezing by 1am until 6am and then it gets hot again just because of the way the windows are and so on. So having something to normalize it would be good. So that's the way you normalize it is by you need a black you need a duvet on and then you set the temperature that you are in the duvet. And in this series, is it takes the, like, obviously one of the feelings that probably before, how does your wake up

Starting point is 00:37:09 and let your mattress feels hot? You know, you get into a bed and it like, the pillow's cold and the mattress cold, it's quite nice feeling. So it takes the, obviously, your heating, the water in the chili pad, which is then taken back into the unit and then cooled and then circulate back in again.

Starting point is 00:37:21 So you do find that like, you don't feel like you change. It's quite a weird thing to describe, but like the bed always feels like you've just got into it. Do you need to change the water every night? No. How often? Like once every four weeks.

Starting point is 00:37:36 Okay, yeah. That's a nice little level of friction. It's like a bit annoying. It's like, oh, here we go. Is that time and length again? Where are you there? Empty my chili pad. But it's charging the electric toothbrush, isn't it? It's something

Starting point is 00:37:49 that you use every single day. It's a good advantage to you. Like me paid ton for it. So you might as well. Yeah, you've got to maintain it. It also makes like a white noise sound, not by design, like, like, by design, as in the noise of the fan, just creates a nice like, that's sort of thing. Good impression. Good. Skoney, what you got? Oh, actually, you're going to tell us what the Skoney 2020, can we interlude to the problem that you had this year?

Starting point is 00:38:19 I think we can't. It's actually not a problem that I've had, but I thought it's the most Skoney 2020 thing that you'll have ever heard. What's the, before we start, what's the elevator pitch, just the architecture of a scoby problem? I think it's a, in fact, I think you guys will be able to define this better than I can. So it's wanting to avoid financial outlay or inconvenience, like to rock the boat for other people. So looking for a slightly offer beacon, beacon track strategy to achieve that and then doing so creating a larger financial outlay in the long term or more rocking off the boat. I think it's yeah, it's maybe even wider than that, which is like trying to optimize something and creating a self-created problem.

Starting point is 00:39:01 There's a couple of limbs added onto the Skoney problem, which include FOMO and novelty, and they're the compounders, so they're the multipliers. If there is... It's software. Terrible. Yeah. It's such a sucker for a novel software. So everyone...

Starting point is 00:39:16 You end up... Everyone ends up with like, friend is like this. It's fucking awful when you do that on a show and you're like, no, you go. No, you go. It's... Everyone's got a friend who's like this, who's like, they'll decide to go 50% of the way there to a complete solution to their problem in an effort to try and save 90% of the cost but end up causing 10 times the problem. Like giving it to your mate, Baz, Baz can MOT it. I don't need to go to afit, then the car breaks down as you're on your way to Manchester.

Starting point is 00:39:46 Yeah, and then you've not got cover. Yeah, you didn't get cover. It's a way to premium plus number count. Yeah, no, because the Yemeni bank that you bank with via Starling through the Monzo server has decided that they're going to close all of the call centers. Oh, God. Or even if you buy phone screen to Timpsons to get all of the call centers. Oh God. Even if you iPhone screened to tympansons to get repaired, they do it on the cheap. Then you take your phone to Apple and it breaks again and Apple say the warrant is

Starting point is 00:40:12 in balance. Yes, yes, that's exactly it. Now you need a new iPhone. That's perfect. So what it is is that my brother called me the other day and said, you said credit card is a scam. And what do you mean he was like, there's no such, you never signed a contract for a credit card, you just signed an application.

Starting point is 00:40:37 So when they send you their invoice, it's not an invoice, it's a statement and you don't have to pay them at all. I'm going to send you these letters that my friends dug out of the archives as like the the loop holes for credit cards and what you can do, and there's what I'm doing right now, as in what he's doing, I'm not doing, is you can trademark your name in capital letters so that when people use, when they try and invoice you, you can charge them, or you can find them for using your trademark. What's the outcome of this situation being? Well, he's just starting with it. And obviously, I've been...

Starting point is 00:41:19 Oh, when mid-skill be problem here? Yeah, he's set up a trading account as well, and I've advised him, like, look, Dukes, he's like, oh, but you've got a risk big to win, big, I'm like, I'm telling you, bro. The guy with the gambling problem. This is not how it works. So is he trying to just never pay his credit card? Is that the outcome?

Starting point is 00:41:39 I think he's just in a permaloupe of, like, how can I find the way out of this do you think that the scoby the scoby architecture might be genetic? I think so I've I've got the most of a handle on it out of all my family. Yeah, which is which is absolutely impressive Actually except for your mum your mum is so anti-scoby problem. She's analogue. Yeah, I mean, all mums are aren't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think she sees right through it.

Starting point is 00:42:11 Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd get the impression that you'd present her with the scoby strategy. It would create the scoby problem and she'd say, I wouldn't recommend that. Yeah, all mums are just like, look, just I'll go and buy the kind of G-lux paint and I'll paint it myself. Yeah, all all mums are just like look just I'll go and buy the kind of dulex paint and I'll paint it myself like it just I don't think my mum would do that my mum would would go to Billingham Town Centre to the the one remaining boys that's still open there because they do curtain hooks for 99 pens whereas if you got a was to their

Starting point is 00:42:41 two pounds 50. Right. Have you seen so I saw an episode of South Park the other day, which is very unusual for me, but it was about Bezos and the workers at Amazon and they go on strike and then people have to go into the shopping mall and it's like this barren area where like the people who work in the shopping mall, they're just like these zombies that you know kind of post-apocalyptic thing and they're like, hello! What would you like? And it's so you look at and you're like, oh this is savage but actually like and they're like, I'm looking for some stuff and they're like, would you like a fragrance? Some shoes? Perhaps and he's like, no, no, I want some quite specific stuff and they go, oh I'm sorry we don't have the inventory and the high street

Starting point is 00:43:25 for that kind of thing and you see just the crumble of high street stores just encapsulated in it. I think the writers are very smart. They've just arrived at Amazon warehouse. They're pretty big, aren't they? You see that and you're like, that is one of like 10 in the UK, I'm guessing something like that maybe more You know, wow, they've got that's a big building, but I've loads of stuff. They've got chili pad in there There's a thousand they've just released South Park have just done a COVID episode an hour long coronavirus special that aired in America

Starting point is 00:44:03 I don't know where it would be. Perhaps if you've got comedy central, it might still be getting aired on that if you've got like the now TV or whatever. But they just did a one hour special. And like the school gets a whole bunch of new teachers who've just recently been released from their jobs. And then just a bunch of cops turn up, all wearing masks.

Starting point is 00:44:21 And then they're trying to get the kids to start finger painting, the kids get rowdy so the cops unload guns on the class and the only one that they hit is token. What's token? The black kid. So heavy. So yeah. And you just think like how have they got away with this? It's because they've got the disclaimer at the start that says should not be viewed by anyone. It's true. So because obviously Trump has just tested positive. And he's in hospital. Yeah, so I saw Anton posted saying he's faking it,

Starting point is 00:44:58 so did Boris. And you think like, okay, I really respect Anton's views, but like man, man who has to take no precautions about global infection gets ill. Like 75-year-old with 30, BMI of 30, contracts global pandemic after visiting thousands of people across one country. And mocking people, not wearing masks.

Starting point is 00:45:20 No mocking people wearing masks and embarrassed, like I'm sure you've seen the one where they spliced the video together where he's like, well, I have no problem shaking hands and I've been shaking, I went to the hospital the other day and I shook hands with every single patient. You're like, no. Oh, well, right, don't do that, mate. Yeah, come on. You're like, come on.

Starting point is 00:45:37 Fucking in charge of the country. Right, okay, my next one, I haven't put this on here yet, but it has appeared on the three-minute Monday newsletter. If you're not signed up. Go to crystallex.com slash life hacks. Nestle Lindals Kvag. So it is technically flavored quark cheese. This comes up every life hacks, I'm sure.

Starting point is 00:46:01 Well, yeah, it's one of those. Who knows, who knows the entire backlog and who claims that this always happens. You do. And then off camera, we always go, no, we didn't actually cover that one before. So we've done skier Nestle Lindals quagg is upgraded skier. So you've seen the macros on the back of this thing. It's essentially no carbs, no fat, and 18 grams of protein, tastes like a thick, nice yogurt and costs about 80 pounds per pot. It's fucking phenomenal. It comes in a whole bunch of flavours. My favourite ones, the white chocolate. They also do ones with tiny little chocolate sprinkles in. Yeah, Mike gets that one. Yeah, it's legit, man.

Starting point is 00:46:45 Like, it's such an easy hack. Everyone on the planet just needs a little bit more protein. Like, even Phil Heath needs just a little bit more protein. And this, just have one after each meal. And there you go, across the day, across the day, that cost you £2.50, but you've gained 60 grams of protein. Was it you who said, is it EC skier?

Starting point is 00:47:10 Yes, it was like you. Yeah. So I bought some of those as you said, Bruce Lee, their window leaking. Yeah. Your windows leaking. It's just like the open, I'll close it, but I don't want to ruin the flow. The, the yoghurt chat or the quark chat. But yeah, so I bought some of those this week for the first time and they are, I just

Starting point is 00:47:32 can't believe how nice they are. It's just quality. Yeah. Like the fact that it's like, well, I think it's tasting it and then you, the first thing I did was like check that I bought the right ones and then check the macros and that. This must have more sugar in than it says. Yeah, I think this is so, it felt like a, like basically a zero fat product. This is so creamy. How have they achieved that? Have you tried this quag that I'm talking about, Johnny?

Starting point is 00:47:58 No, I've not. Oh mate, I'm fucking telling you man. I'm fucking telling you man. On the note of misjudging the macro, it's Johnny has made that error once before in a critical stance. I've done it quite a few times to be honest. But the time you were thinking about is when I drank two litres of volvic touch of fruit, thinking it was sugar free on a fasting day. And how much sugar was in it? It's like basically the same as as like

Starting point is 00:48:28 foolish and coke. Yeah, 250 grams of carbs just in. And that's the again, so you're in a dark cinema. That's when I did it. So like open the bottle because I can't have any food because I'm doing all the day fasting, drink it like, wow, that's like that. For water, that's brilliant. For water, that's brilliant.

Starting point is 00:48:46 Neck the whole thing. And then when you come out afterwards, you just glance at it and you notice it doesn't say sugar free on it. And you're like, so then you just go to Peter Buffet. No, I'm joking. I did, but that would be there.

Starting point is 00:49:01 You said that when he had coffee with a bit of sugar in, didn't realize it was sugar in it and then just ate a panini. So catastrophic, catastrophic thinking there. I'm in for a penny, in for a pound. Yeah, often a day fasting does it does that to, it's by nature being around, isn't it? You read the reading or you know? Or shake it all about. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:49:22 So Johnny, what you got? So this one, well, no, it's all right. It's all right, I'll do it on there. Sleep meditation in Insight Timer. So there's a few like sleep specific, like sample sessions that are like 10 minutes long, that are not, I don't think that is designed to be listened to while you're sleeping, it's just like an evening switch off. So I can get a specific one to the one I've tried,

Starting point is 00:49:51 I've tried a couple of them. Really good. Like they're a bit woo-woo, they're a bit about like connecting with the moon and all that sort of stuff. But like at the end of it, you notice a, I think you notice a definite difference pre-post. So do you do it for a full night's sleep or like a nap? Just like 10 minutes before bed.

Starting point is 00:50:13 So you get into bed? I'm not normally, I like sit on the sofa, headphones in, 10 minutes, then you go, I'm not doing it too fall asleep. It's like an evening, like, wipe the slate clean. There's even a visualization they get you to do where it's like a mansion, your inbox is clear, imagine all of your tasks completely. And I just thought, like, as I was listening to it,

Starting point is 00:50:38 I was like, this guy knows me. He knows the game. He knows what's going on. But on. Yeah, just really good. I've noticed a lot of adverts for calm, sleep stories, Harry styles from like one direction has been, I'm Harry Styles and tonight I will be telling you my sleep story. It was the local night of France's first Twilight Moon. Okay, Harry, I understand, mate. Fuck Stephen Frye did one.

Starting point is 00:51:19 Like, I don't know. I don't know. Wow. Yeah, I'm unsure of one of those. When you find yourself as a celebrity, like just in situations. How has it got to this point? Harry, yeah mate, we've got,

Starting point is 00:51:30 yeah, the guys from Karm have been on again. Another we can't play any live shows this year. Do you, should we just say the sleep stories thing? Yeah, yeah, it's the France one. All right. I'm Harry Styles. this is my sleep story. Cool. When you sub-sold pieces, the pieces like Upsell weren't while we were in Iceland.

Starting point is 00:51:53 Oh, yeah. And I remember hearing you playing it. At three times the speed. At three times the speed. At three times the speed. It's time to go to sleep now and relax. And you said it's supposed to be relaxing. Try to get through it as quickly as possible.

Starting point is 00:52:08 But I can get more relaxation in in less time if I play it three times. Yeah, that was mine. Does everyone use the inside time I'm guessing of the three of us? The best. Should I go with your recommendation? Should have bought shares and inside time. I see that that's where I'd like Buying the penny stock and it blows up That's probably something that could have been a scurvy problem

Starting point is 00:52:33 But it's like the it's when that method wins isn't it because everyone was using heads for time and and And calm and like more that's where you're What you do it all for, isn't it? But is there one like, that is the one win from the perpetually losing gambler? Do you know what I mean? That's the win that justifies the losses. There, there's hundreds of life hacks

Starting point is 00:52:58 that have worked their way in that are really good, but they've just become the normal now. So probably Alfred, was that? I imagine. Oh, yeah. All these things that like now. So probably Alfred, was that? Oh, imagine. Yeah. All these things that like you stuff willing to put his neck on the line. And like occasionally he has a bag of birthday cake way that he stuck with, but there's so many winners left over that they're still worth doing this strategy.

Starting point is 00:53:17 And then you're just seen as an early adopter of something that is mainstream, like Evernote or pocket or anything like that. Like these are all original scurvy problems that really use a pie. I would. A visionary. Yeah. Thank you, aren't one. Right, what you got scurvy? So I can't remember if I mentioned this one before, but I'm quite big on loose leaf tea and I know Johnny has been when doing cycling out caffeine. Either a tea strainer or you can buy tea bags on Amazon that just have a little drawstring in a made of like sack material.

Starting point is 00:54:01 And well, not sat like just kind of like eco paper. And it's great because you just put a bit of tea in, ties the thing through the mesh that's used in, like, tea pigs and other things is bad, right? For some reason. East Virginia. Yeah. So, in tea pigs and like, the silky tea barks that are in,

Starting point is 00:54:19 like, the pyramid and are, like, really kind of, they are the worst. They release loads of nanoparticles or micro particles whatever of plastic that don't get excreted. So you end up with just a buildup of estrogen in your body and you can only really, there's something about it being able to bypass liver metabolism and so you need to kind of sweat it out.

Starting point is 00:54:43 Oh, wow. Which is pretty bad. The normal tea bags have less of it. The only plastic in normal tea bags is the glue sealant they use to stick the two sides together, which you may or may not be worried about. I think you've got to pick your battles with with Eastergendom. Well, as opposed to you who is an all-out full-on Well, as opposed to you, who is an all-out full-on wall. I've got like a helmet on and the body armor. Yeah, it was the same. It's a magic helmet though.

Starting point is 00:55:13 Yeah, of course. Why don't you just get one of those cages, like a steel cage, you can just put the leaves into it, like a little orby ball and steal on the top? Surely that would be a re-whackers- Re-easie thing at that would be re-uisable and you can just keep reusing that. Why not that? Yeah, you can do so I alternate between both. It's not actually a ball that I use, it's like a Dippy one, but yeah same concept. A metal Dippy T-strainer, either ball with a squeezy thing, eBay, ATP. Well, nice. I like it. Very nice.

Starting point is 00:55:50 Anyone who's doing loose leaf tea, I guess that'll be good. So we've done sort of quite a lot of explicit, happy foodie ones so far today. One that I've been using for quite a while is ask for a solution when someone poses a problem. So this reverses a lot of the typical ebb and flow of a conversation, especially at work, but also with relationships, interpersonal relationships with your partner or friends. It's very easy for someone to criticize anything that you've decided to do or that anyone else has decided to do. I don't like that particular piece of artwork. I think that this is not very good. Why are you

Starting point is 00:56:32 taking that route? Whatever it might be, the easiest way to shut down their force toward you and also to move the conversation, firstly not in an antagonistic way. And secondly towards a solution based conversation is to just say, all right, well, what would you do? And the number of times, remembering that I have a lot of young lads that work for us and they're all full of caffeine and testosterone and they're 18 years old. They're very opinionated. They often have a lot of strong opinions about things, but they're quite unexamined. So they don't actually know why they think the thing that they think.

Starting point is 00:57:14 I don't like, no, no, no, it's fucking shit that. Fucking shit that, mate. Oh, why? Okay. What would you do? Not even just asking the why, because asking the why they can often just justify stuff out of nowhere. It's like, it's not enough just asking the why, because asking the why they can often just justify stuff out of nowhere.

Starting point is 00:57:25 It's like, it's not enough just for you to identify a problem. What is the solution that you do? Don't hit the track on that video mate, it's just shit. Okay, what would you put in its place? And that, it moves the conversation in one question by using it almost like a trigger for you to say, as opposed to your wrong or trying to justify, even if you think that you're right, even if you think the track on that video is the one that you should have used, just asking someone, what would

Starting point is 00:57:55 you put instead? Doesn't necessarily mean that you're seething ground on how strongly you feel about your side of the argument. But I've just found, even in group conversations as well, it reminds everyone we're here to find solutions, not identify problems. Here for a common goal. So Tim Ferris recommends this with conversations with yourself as well. But if you find yourself complaining about something internally, to always propose a solution, it's part of it is like 21 day no complaint challenge. Cool. So, if someone comes to you saying, I've got this problem or like complaining about something, is it? Mostly, mostly, if there's a complaint that someone puts forward, especially if you're dealing

Starting point is 00:58:46 with someone who tends to be a little bit more emotional, either aggressive or negative or even overly positive, and they decide to have a problem with something which is going on, just ask them for what their proposed solution is. A lot of the time it forces them to examine why they have the problem and they realize actually it's not that big of a problem or it's unjustified, it's just emotionally driven, and sometimes they actually have a ready-made solution, which is even better than what you put forward. Or if they have a ready-made solution, which is worse than what you put forward, you're now debating solution versus solution as opposed to solution versus

Starting point is 00:59:23 criticism to the solution? You get me? Yeah. Makes sense. Useful. Johnny. So I have one similar to that, which I wasn't going to say because I thought it maybe wasn't Apple tactics specific enough.

Starting point is 00:59:39 So I'm glad that you went down that route, which is again, something I coach that's working on at the moment is kind of encouraging us to think in this way, which is whenever you're, I think really whenever you're doing anything. So like any personal behavior or anything you're like in the process of doing is come back to the question of like what is the goal? Like what am I trying to achieve with this? And then like what is my ultimate goal? What is the specific goal? And then list out the possible things you could do to achieve the goal. And then the possible problems you might encounter. And it takes you from a position of, if you're like not sure what to do, you're like, I really want to lose weight or like deal with stress better or improve my sleep or whatever, you then find yourself taking this like, but I could do,

Starting point is 01:00:25 like suddenly you're like dealing with three possible paths vectors to that thing and then three problems in the account of each one. And then you can just pick one and do it in try to two weeks and see what happens. And you can take confusion to like, I'll just do that really, really quickly. Or, so I've done this with like all of my morning routine and habits and stuff like that, is I now do like a third or a quarter of what I used to do, because you just apply the question of, what is the goal with this thing, with this behavior? And then can I achieve that with just something simpler?

Starting point is 01:00:58 Well, could I not do that and still achieve the same thing, always trying to simplify and cut waste? Because I think morning routines, especially me, then I'll go to the YouTube for one of the things. So like any habits or anything like that, there's a tendency to like do as many of the things that everyone says you should do as possible. And then when you just reframe it as well, why am I actually doing these things? It's to like feel more mindful.

Starting point is 01:01:19 It's like, well, okay, does, does like half an hour of meditation achieve that? Yeah, it probably does. How about I just do that for a month and see if that achieves the outcome rather than meditation, journaling, but I've got like 10 other things. So that's something that's really helped me recently in like work, training, everything.

Starting point is 01:01:38 That is very cool. So what's the process if you were to say like problem, how do you put it through that? So define just define the goal for the thing like for that area. So like whatever it is you're thinking about, what's the end point I'm trying to get to and then what are the things I could do to reach that and then what are the problems I'm out encounter and try and troubleshoot the problems? and then what are the problems I'm out and counter? Trying troubleshoot the problems. So problem proposed solution obstacle.

Starting point is 01:02:10 And then I'm going test. And then off you go. I think a lot of the time the things that we have in life were just overwhelmed with this sense. We have like just notions. It's just emotionally driven actions that aren't really very well examined. And I think this kind of links back to what we were just talking about there that a lot of the time people just have a sense of something and then decide to blur it out. A post-hoc rationalized justification that they think sounds okay driven from the particular emotional reaction they've had. So let's say that someone's, I want to lose weight.

Starting point is 01:02:46 That's the outcome that I want to have. Okay, what are the different ways that I could lose weight? I could intermittent fast, I could just start calorie tracking, I could do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do Carnivore and then did vegan or the other way round For like a significant period of time and he was just totally unattached to the ideologies or anything He was just like I'll try this see how it feels and he said the main benefit of veganism This is gonna really upset people, but he said it was the sense of moral superiority that he got That doesn't surprise me I think a lot of people a lot a lot of who are vegan, especially the ones that have been, they got front-ended into it by the emotive imagery that you see of mistreatment of animals.

Starting point is 01:03:55 It's seductive to be able to be that person that can say, yeah mate, but you don't fucking care about them, you know, I fucking, I'm willing to put my life on the line for them. Well, no, you're not. You're willing to change your diet for them. That's true. And I don't know anyone. I know like the argument will always be, oh, well, I've got to pick my like, pick my battles. But I don't know anyone who is fully, fully consistent. Like, if someone is saying, oh, I'm vegan because of the environment, but they're using an iPhone, like the number of kilograms of carbon that it produces or carbon dioxide rather, or like if they're wearing leather shoes or if they still drive a car, I don't think there's anyone who is like completely aligned with that mission.

Starting point is 01:04:41 Because if they were, they wouldn't have kids kids they would probably live out in a subsistence farm somewhere You know, there's a lot of costs to have to go to On the other hand, you'd be like well, oh shouldn't throw it But you know just because you can't do all of it doesn't mean you can't do some of it. Yes. Yeah, I agree Scotty, what you got just sorry Which one think about the way to make all of that faster? So like the way I just described is like the self-managed process of like what are the things I can try and then testing them. So like doing kind of all them, doing veganism or like trying different ways to do your bit

Starting point is 01:05:12 and climate change. The other one is like what is the goal? And then if you is the person I know what I've heard of who is the best at that thing, just ask them what to do. And then just do that. Way quicker. So like, I want to try and improve my personal impact on the environment. Okay, I'm going to get in touch with David Adbra and ask him what I can do. You know what I mean? Yeah, well, I think Chris is most well-right with that and just ask them for help. Chris, I think you're all very good at doing that.

Starting point is 01:05:43 Yeah, so I've got a letter, an email actually that I sent the other day, a lot of the listeners might be familiar with Toby Ord who I've been bringing up a fair bit recently. He wrote a book called The Pressapist, which is on existential threats. And I sent him this email. I haven't read it out yet. So, hi Toby, hope you're well. I'm a huge fan of your work. The pressapist is one of the best things I've read since superintelligence. Congratulations on a wonderful book. I read a podcast called Modern Wisdom on it. I've had tons of authors and thinkers you've been familiar with blah, blah, blah, blah. A concern I have after 200 plus podcast

Starting point is 01:06:15 episodes is just how skewed the attentions of smart minds are becoming. I must have had the same conversation 20 times this year, which boils down to walk bashing ridiculous examples of identity politics or highlighting that we just can't have conversations anymore. If the great filter exists, I'm worried that it is alive and kicking in the form of a seductively easy collection of woke, low hanging fruits for intellectuals to have their attention consumed by. James Lindsay has a PhD in pure mathematics, but is caught up arguing with people on Twitter. He should be getting us to Mars not writing fake intersectional studies.

Starting point is 01:06:46 Think of it how TikTok must be to a 15-year-old. Some of the greatest minds of our generation are spending their time proving why men and women are different. Given how grave the implications from your book are, which is that he thinks there's a one in three chance that human civilization will make it through the next century and a one in two chance that will reach our full potential and worried. The same thing goes for the amount of press and passion and energy going into fixing climate change, surely working on the control problem for AGI, are looking at a more effective method

Starting point is 01:07:11 to keep biotechnology lab safe, would be wildly more useful at keeping us all alive. I want to use my platform to bring this to people's attention and give them some perspective on the big picture. If you have time to join me and discuss your work on the show, I'll be honored and I'm adamant that you have the big impact on the audience positively. However, if your availability is too tight at the moment, I would still be keen to promulgate this message in whatever way you think I can do best

Starting point is 01:07:36 and would appreciate any advice and how you think I could do it effectively. So I found a guy that I knew as an expert in the field, sent him a little bit of stuff before and said, what would you do? I have this platform that I can as an expert in the field, sent him a little bit of stuff before and said, what would you do? I have this platform that I can utilize, what's your advice? Nice.

Starting point is 01:07:49 It's a very targeted example of exactly that. It's like, what is the goal? I want to use the modern wisdom platform to achieve this outcome. Like, right, well, that's massive. How do I, I'll just ask someone. Find the smartest guy in the planet and email him. Yeah, who is the best person at that?

Starting point is 01:08:03 Ask him. I like it. Wait, that's a great email. Thanks, man. Where you got Scob? I was sent a poor man's sonner, which is the excuse me. I've seen you using this. You have, I did a live stream trying it out for the first time I did a live stream trying it out for the first time. And it's called the Mihae Shine alarm. It's called MI Hi. So I think it's pronounced Mihi because the tagline is Get Mihi. And it's very clever. Cheek seven Mihi.

Starting point is 01:08:38 It's a sauna in a plastic bag. We're made of like anorac material. And you rock yourself up in it. And it's got two heating elements on the front and back so it sandwiches you in with far infrared and you get the health benefits of infrared exposure without having to have a wooden setup. You get to have the health benefits of a sauna without enjoying it at all? Well, so it is about saunas full a stop Chris, so it's one of the things

Starting point is 01:09:06 of you really. Yeah, I mean, it's obviously the experience of sitting in a sauna, part of it is the social experience, and the other part is not being in a plastic bag. That's one of the main reasons that I go in a sauna, it's because it's one of the few places on this planet I know I'm not going to be in a plastic bag. Is this the same as the thing that we've seen, you might not have seen it, Chris, but but Paul more puts himself in this like 10th. Oh, similar. So he calls the portable masturbation tent, which is just his head on a, basically on a box. Is it the same idea? It is, it's the same idea. Yeah. This is more specifically infrared. And so you do get, there's a lot of benefits associated with it, but I did it wrong first time because I was just doing it in pants,

Starting point is 01:09:54 which means you're sweating directly onto this waterproof material, which is quite unpleasant, as you can imagine. Um, they advise actually wearing sports clothes, okay, and being inside. And you don't, you don't sweat that much like a half an hour session, you'll break a bit of a sweat even though it's quite hot. So you can tolerate it quite well and it definitely lifts your mood, you can then have a cold shower immediately afterwards. How much other? 300 pounds I think, or slightly under.

Starting point is 01:10:23 How expensive are they to run? Pretty efficient electricity-wise. You just need to spray it down when you finish. Compared to having an infrared sauna installed for a one-man one, it's going to be 1200 and for a, you don't want a one-man one, though, because you're just seeing on your bill, for a two or three-man one, it's going to be three grand. So significantly cheaper. I've sent it to the price, for the same health outcomes.

Starting point is 01:10:50 So apart from the fact that it does look an awful lot like you are getting ready to die, like you've been pressed. My neighbors must think that I've got some like mad perversions because I'm just out in the yard like pillow in this kind of sweating. Yeah, sweating and bright red and sweating, suffering. Yeah. So why should somebody go to that bother? Like what's, because there's something about for some reason

Starting point is 01:11:25 being like heated up by infrared beams just feels a, like I'm sure it's good for you, but it feels like it wouldn't be. Yeah, so one of the things we mentioned on one of the kind of earlier life hacks was having a state change. And so Chris was saying that training for him is more of a state change, more of a frame shift than having a good night's sleep. And changing your temperature is another great way to do that. So in terms of mood and subjective benefits, that's one side of it. The physiological mechanisms, so on a cellular level there are a few processes that happen when you are exposed to

Starting point is 01:11:57 heat. And heat shock proteins is one of the ways it's mediated, but it can improve cardiovascular health, reduce the risk of ischemic heart disease, improve glucose metabolism. There's a few of these kind of like rondipatriate goes deep into this, but there's a few kind of things that you can you can influence directly with heat exposure. And then if you would alternate heat and cold, it's you're getting the benefits of both and it just feels quite nice, set you up for the day. I really wish that one of us had decided

Starting point is 01:12:34 to get an infrared sauna at the start of 2020. We would have so made our money back. And this is how we would put it in. Pointless putting it in Johnny's, because firstly doesn't let me in his house and then secondly, he'd never use it. But in your backyard, or my garden, Seth, two or three man, two or three man sauna, we would have made our money back and some by the end of this year, but yeah. What am I going to do? Here's one that I've been doing all this year, which is a hard rule of no TV on a night

Starting point is 01:13:07 time. So I wanted to read more. I also know that I tend to break my sleep time when I'm watching something because it's passive rather than active. It affects my melatonin release because there's blue light and a whole host of other things. Also, I'm watching usually Netflix, which is at best acceptable and at worst mind-numbing. So I wanted to set myself a rule that I wouldn't do that. I tend to have a shower on a night time, so I have a trigger point, which is usually about an hour before I go to bed. That's the shower. And I set myself a rule that I would not watch TV after I have a shower. Now, I have two choices. I can I go to bed, that's the shower, and I sent myself a rule that I would not watch TV after I have a shower.

Starting point is 01:13:47 Now I have two choices, I can either go to bed an hour early, which is maybe a bit boring, but would probably be fairly beneficial since I'm still only averaging about seven hours a night, or I can read for an hour, reading tends to set me up better for sleep. The research around e-readers is that they do not affect your melatonin release anywhere near the same as using an iPad or a phone

Starting point is 01:14:11 or a television. The light that they emit doesn't impact your melatonin release in the same way at all. So I've gone through tons of books. I have two exes to my book reading by just having a hard stop of TV, plus I've improved my sleep quality, plus I've actually read a bunch of stuff that I'm interested in. I wake up on the morning feeling better. I notice a couple of nights that I've gone in the living room. I've had a shower earlier in the day, which is removed to trigger. I've stayed in the living room watching something on TV, and then I try and go to bed, and I'm just in a completely different headspace.

Starting point is 01:14:48 Stopping TV hardstop and then reading before bed. Yeah, reading fiction, I think, particularly helps. Like trying to read or reading narrative nonfiction, like biographies and stuff. If you're trying to read self-development at 11 o'clock at night, I just think you're sending yourself... The whole point of reading self-development books is the retention and then the application, going to med immediately afterward, unless it's some real clever, Josh Waitskin sandwich your sleep in the thing that you want to really ingrain into yourself, and there's probably some argument to be made for that. But for the most part, just find a good fiction series like Red Rising is amazing. I'm really, really enjoying that and everyone that I've sent it to has become fully, fully

Starting point is 01:15:31 addicted. Also, P.S. Brown, the author of Red Rising is coming on here once he finishes the next book in the series, which will be really, really fun. And I'm going to, this could two for one. I'm going to jump in again and do another one, which is one of yours actually scope. So no TV on a night for me, I think would benefit a lot of people. You could potentially look to partition this and say no TV on weeknights. And then on a weekend you might allow yourself a little bit of a break, but again, just set hard and fast rules about when

Starting point is 01:16:01 find a trigger, use the trigger, and then also set yourself some bright lines around if there's breaks in that and when they're acceptable. And another one, which you have, is don't have a TV in your living room if you want to have better conversations. So I don't know anyone else's house that I go to where we talk more when we go around than yours because we don't have the distraction of watching TV. Every time that we go to your house, we always sit in a circle. It's not like we're all in a weird sort of line, like a full match, or like at the cinema, or facing the same way. Everyone kind of sits in a circle,

Starting point is 01:16:36 and we just have a chat. That's interesting. I never really thought of it as even an option. It's just like getting a TV seems like more of an opt-in thing for me than an opt-out. You do, you are aware that that's non-typical though. Yeah, absolutely. I think you're the only person I know who sees it like that. But I think, like, that's often a sign that it's a good idea rather than a bad one, in most cases. And that's something harmful or... It was thinking about this the other day. Like, at what point are you like really making yourself a dysfunctional human if you just don't have a phone or any like if you had no online accounts or email address or anything, like I think

Starting point is 01:17:19 could you live a normal life? Probably not. Well, you could, but you wouldn't be able to interact like interact with many other things. Like, could you have, I don't know, you could, but you wouldn't be able to interact with many other things. Like, could you have, I don't know, you can have a bank account. Yeah. So online banking, dealing with stuff like council tax, with changing energy suppliers, it's all the real boring I need to keep the lights on stuff. Like, how do people over 70 do this stuff? Because I still find it like, yeah, maybe that's it.

Starting point is 01:17:50 Well, think about your mom, like all of our parents will have called on us because I can't get this bloody thing to work at some point. Yeah, just becomes the sort of TV advert the other day for a food delivery service targeted at older people. And one of the selling points was that like you called up And you spoke to someone and you made the order over the phone and they made a big deal about it like none of this internet

Starting point is 01:18:11 Shrintimate in a like you actually speak to a human who places the order for you and then it gets delivered by someone who like stop and chat to you Nice, I can think of nothing worse than having to do online shopping over the phone. A fucking hell. Hang on, hang on. So you're telling me that I could have done this, I could have written a macro, I could have had an Alfred Shortcut that would have automatically added everything to my cart, but you want me to wring on the phone and wait. Yeah. It's changed so quickly as well.

Starting point is 01:18:46 Like, can you even imagine calling up like a takeaway now? And being like, oh, we'll have to wait. Is it two pop-a-dums? Yeah. And right, and one pilar rice. Yeah. And like, now it's not even. The last thing for me for that's been dentist appointments.

Starting point is 01:19:01 So that was the last thing in my life that I had to call up for. The final bastion of the old media here. It's progressed now whereby I can fill in, I mean, I so wanted to say this to them, I fill in a web form, which is just like a contact form on their site, that when I try and press book online, it just directs me back to like the contact us form and then somebody calls me, which is a step better. But like, come on.

Starting point is 01:19:28 You know, you should do get your teeth done by David Bretton at the cosmetic dental clinic and you can just WhatsApp him because that's what I do. All right, mate, when are you free next week? Oh, it's time. I'm the framework of like, what is the goal? Who do I know who is best at that? Ask them. Yeah. Anyone in the northeast of England, if you want cosmeticmetic Dental Work done, go and see David

Starting point is 01:19:47 Bretonies or G. He just do normal, like, dental checkups. Everything. Full works. Does like half of Newcastle United's football team, like all of the, is phenomenal, man. It's so interesting as well, seeing someone, I met him, met this guy at uni in the gym when he was a fresher doing dentistry and Then in 2019 he gets the UK young dentist of the Euro ward and is like one of the highest earning guys a

Starting point is 01:20:13 Huge cosmetic dental clinic here. It really is interesting to watch someone on a single career path Let's go. Yes precisely because most of the time people kind of vacillate at least you know you guys go. Yes, precisely. Because most of the time people kind of vacillate at least, you know, you guys will go from fitness coaching to business coaching. It's a path, but there's, there's wiggle room within it, right? It's like, just been one fucking thing for him, and he's just becoming incredibly good at it. He's a sniper, isn't he? Yeah, that's great. So a friend of mine who was his classmate, David Breton's classmate, he's set up an app to solve this specific problem, which is like, it's called teeth.app and it's like Uber for booking a dentist. Find your dentist.com.

Starting point is 01:20:53 Yeah. I like it. Okay, let's finish off with a little bit of a quick fire round if you've got a couple of Swiftie ones, Johnny. Sure. Me. Yeah. So mine's actually looping back to, I think,

Starting point is 01:21:06 the last life hacks, which is that I'm still using and still recommend Omnifocus. You've done this. You've done this because you know that I'm halfway through. I'm halfway through it and that you have still using the Yemeni Tiktok. This is such a, I get such like specific questions from Chris and it's just great watching someone's development. Like the problems that Chris is solving now are

Starting point is 01:21:33 very like advanced specific problems within the Omni world. Yeah, so I am transitioning at the moment from things to OmniFocus from a task management. The Peter Akki's course, which is a link in the show notes below. If you want to go and check this out, you can also check out OmniFocus. The Peter Akki's course is really helping me a lot. I would be terrified to try and learn OmniFocus without that. It really is quite sophisticated, but I'm looking forward to getting to the stage where I can start to fully integrate it. And you're right, some of the questions that I've

Starting point is 01:22:12 been asking you about, is it a task with a subtasks? Is it a project? How many subfolders should I have within this and this? But again, your analogy was it's like snowboarding. It takes ages to learn how to do it and set up, but once you can, you look cool as fuck. Yeah, and you're carving, carving shit up. So OmniFocus is still great. I've just written that and I'll link the Peter Accu's course as well. What would have to happen to you stuff

Starting point is 01:22:36 for you to use OmniFocus? I think for you to have said that you were trying it say a month ago and then do it a life hacks say this month and say I've been using it and actually it's really good. I think it was more than a month ago, but yeah, I see. Yeah, I'm like, it does that. I'll see you on the focus reminder with a life hacks tag to mention every life hacks episode until I get it.

Starting point is 01:23:02 Nice. If you could see, I'm sure loads of people listening would also love this is to see a video of your workflow. Okay. I think it would make my, I mean, it would make my life easier, mate, because I'm asking you a lot of questions that the back end of your army focus could just tell me. of questions that the back end of your army focus could just tell me. There's Johnny capturing it. Yeah. Done. Seth, what you got? So I may have mentioned this one before, but if you're at someone's house

Starting point is 01:23:39 and you need to store something in the fridge, so let's say you've like, for whatever reason, you've picked something up that needs to be refrigerated or it's food or whatever, but you, well, maybe not even fridge, you've put something somewhere that you have to remember before you leave, not to forget it there. Put your keys in the fridge. So, for example, if I've like, mincee my girlfriend, we get some food, ham, get loads of ham, and I put it in the fridge and I'm like, I can't forget that ham, but then I leave and I'm like, I can't forget that ham, but then I leave and I'm like, oh, I forgot the ham, khaki's in the fridge instantly,

Starting point is 01:24:09 you can't leave without it. So, I feel like- So you can apply that to anything, right? If you don't wanna forget something, put your khaki's on top of it. Yeah, exactly, right? That's the matter, hack the.

Starting point is 01:24:22 For me, it would just be put, whatever I need to take, put my air pods on top of it, because I'm not leaving my house without my air pods. There we go. Yeah, so the essential thing. Something I do that's similar to that, which is, you know, like you got to bed and you think I need to remember this in the morning.

Starting point is 01:24:40 I can eat it in the morning and you think, I'm sorry, I'll, I'll, I'll remember. And then you, and there'll be you leave the house and you've forgotten. Just put it in like the middle of the floor, put it in like the weirdest place. So like, so that you get out of bed and you stand and you go, oh yeah. And then you're like, oh god, thank god for that. And last back of course, like just moot just tight as it was. Oh, I mean, that next day. Johnny, I saw this weird thing in the middle of the floor, like what are you doing? Johnny, you left all of your dildos in the middle of the floor. I needed them to bring to a cafe nearer.

Starting point is 01:25:11 Taking them to a coster. Yeah, so again, another iteration of this, further down the autism rabbit hole, is the old wives tale of like tie a knot in your handkerchief when you want to remember something, if you don't have the thing that you need to remember, just get it, you're right, you're on a night time, you're asleep, oh shit, I need to do that thing, I really need to do that thing, I cannot forget it, I can't hay, Siri it because it's too far across the far side,

Starting point is 01:25:37 or my font's outside of my bedroom, or whatever it might be, just get something that's next to the bed, yeah, and just and put it like, hoi it across the room and you're like, why is that? But the worst, what you don't want to happen is to see the pillow and then be like, I don't remember what I mean. That's an open loop of something that I know, the pillow is only there as a signal that

Starting point is 01:25:59 I need to remember it and shit, I can't remember it. It's like when I've saved items in my calendar when I'm not not fully brain-working properly and I'll just save Wednesday 3pm. And I'll just save a few months in advance. And you get to that day and you're like, and then dentist calls you and it's like, where are you? And you're like, I... Yeah.

Starting point is 01:26:22 Yeah, difficult one. Right, what have I got this? Okay, so I Reebok have recently become a sponsor on the show and they sent me out a pair of myo knit shorts Which are their top of the line shorts. I've on previous life hacks I've talked about the Nike flex repels which are One of the best pairs of shorts I've ever had in my life. And I've got the My Own It ones on now, which are just as good and a tiny little bit shorter,

Starting point is 01:26:48 which I think is especially for British guys. American CrossFit isn't fitness guys, tend to be able to get away with slightly longer shorts, but in the UK you look, I don't know, it just doesn't really seem to be quite stable. You could have like a tap out t-shirt and long shorts. Yes, precisely. So yeah, Reebok, my own it, seamless shorts are like definitely one of the most comfortable

Starting point is 01:27:11 pairs I've ever worn, and you can easily train in them. They're probably going to last me for a bunch of years. If those aren't your, if you don't like the colors of those, the alternative, I would say is Nike Flex Repels, which I think are actually called like Nike Flex Pros or something now, but basically go on to Nike or Reebok, sort short by price highest to lowest and just by the most expensive ones. Short to one of those things that you only need to wash once every few training sessions, not super regular, and you only need like what, two or three pairs of bottoms really for training and that will last you for a couple of years. So you might as well invest in something that's worthwhile.

Starting point is 01:27:48 You got them on that. I do indeed. I can't go back though because I've got the boot on. Yeah, it's a full cast. At the end of this podcast, Chris, do you just have to try and walk forward through the desks to turn around? Yeah, lateral and reverse movement is, and it's my weakness at the moment. Anything that you want to finish up with before we finish off, oh, I tell you what,

Starting point is 01:28:10 actually why don't we finish with a few things that you've been watching on Netflix or YouTube videos or podcasts that you've listened to that you've enjoyed recently. I have one more thing that I'm bursting to say. But do you want to save it for the next one because this is the very, very end of the episode. And we can open loop it.

Starting point is 01:28:26 We can open loop it for everyone. There we go. You and Becca watched some good stuff on Netflix, what you've been watching. To be honest, it's been drying out recently. I just, you know, when you watch the world run out of content, I feel like that's what's happening. And you think like somewhat, what I think what's most impressive is you see the extent to which things are pre planned. Yes. Oh yeah. And then what's shaping the barrel content actually

Starting point is 01:28:50 is because it's all like, oh let's look back on like the years ago isn't it? Yeah. More Jose Mareño interviews. Yeah. Every TV show's got fucking Jose Mareño in at the moment. Weird. I hope you noticed that. The platform is a film on Netflix. Foreign film. Foreign film. Have you seen it Chris? No, I've watched the trailer for it. It looked like a really interesting idea. It's all right. It's pretty good. So it's in I think, maybe. Basically, there's a prison, an infinite number of floors, and a descending platform that starts on floor one or floor zero with loads of food on it, so enough for all of the levels, but every month people get put to sleep and reallocated randomly onto a floor, so you might be put right at the bottom or right at the top. So it's basically like an experiment in game theory. So if everybody just took their portion

Starting point is 01:29:49 and the whole thing plays out, it's pretty graphic, but just quite a, like quite a thought. So it came out, I think, at a time when everyone was like panic buying toilet roll and so it's like a macro commentary on that. So it's quite good. Clevver idea, I really liked that. Have you watched anything? Sounds very sort of black mirrorery. I tried to watch the social dilemma, social experiment, social dilemma.

Starting point is 01:30:13 Yeah. So I saw about half of it, like it's fine, but I think I guess having listened to like Tristan Harris's podcast and stuff, it's not anything new, but I imagine for a lot of audiences, they will be like, this is brilliant. Also, Le Cassadepapel is very good, bless you. It's called Money Heist, so it's in Spanish. It's way bigger than I thought. I thought it was kind of a niche show, she's really bad at art and Spanish, but the following for that show is absolutely huge. All of the actors in them have got 16 million followers on Instagram and stuff, they're seriously...

Starting point is 01:30:56 Is it like a multi-series thing? Or is it just one? Multi-series, yeah. It's far out now or something I think. Really? Yeah, it's very well executed,, I think. Really? Think so. It's very well executed. Like really well shot. Very, I would recommend it. Do you watch it dubbed or with subtitles? Alternate. Sometimes someone will say something really silly and you're like, I wonder what that sounds like in Spanish.

Starting point is 01:31:15 And then you'll like, go back to the dubbed again. It's not a terrible dubbing as well. Like some, you know, we were talking about this last time, like some dubbing. And it's like, hey, who's there? Oh, I like it. It's unforgivable. Yeah, ruins it. Have you watched Murder Next Door? No.

Starting point is 01:31:34 Is that the American thing? The American? I just watched that last night with Becca. My God. Holy shit. You would, I think you'd really enjoy it, Yusuf, because it kind of subverts a lot of your expectations. So a, a, a, Why, Similar to the staircase.

Starting point is 01:31:51 It's just a single, a single watch. The staircase is a long, the staircase is a long burn. This is like being fired out of a cannon. Okay. So why is the staircase not like a terrible, couple of years, isn't it? It's a terrible decade,

Starting point is 01:32:04 Yusuf's like, a terrible couple of years, isn't it? It's a terrible decade, and you're just like, it's been financially ribbied, I'm still in prison, and this is still going on. Yeah. But yeah, that American thing. What is it called murder next door? I thought it was called American murder or something. Oh, shit, yeah, maybe it is.

Starting point is 01:32:18 Maybe it is American murder, perhaps. Either way, it's serious. A wife and her two children, a pregnant wife and her two children go missing and the police try and find out what happens and it's just a rollercoaster. What's so cool about it? It uses a lot of her social media, so she's already big with Facebook live, did a lot of Facebook live, a lot of videos, a lot of photos. Traffic, traffic, trying to get traffic. Like she's literally, yeah, so she's trying to

Starting point is 01:32:48 insert impressions. But yeah, so she's obviously very active on that. And it documents a story with like real police footage and that. So it's splice makes it like. It's the first time I've ever seen them splice in police body cam footage. I know.

Starting point is 01:33:01 They bought the rights to police. But so imagine how difficult it must be to go to like Washington State PD and say, hey guys, when Netflix, we want the rights to your body cam footage and the interview room, a corner of the wall recording and the audio recording and the a corner of the wall recording and the audio recording and the polygraph test that people take, we want everything please. It just wouldn't, like in the UK, like in the US, you'd have legal problems, you have to have a team of lawyers that are sorting through all the paperwork. In the UK, you'd be dealing with Catherine from the other team of I team, but you can can it because it's on floppy disk and we haven't got the converter.

Starting point is 01:33:45 So you get like, Catherine would only be able to allow you to take a recording on your phone of her VGA monitor. That would be the way. I have you. And then fax it back to yourself from, yeah. But what I was thinking while I was watching it was, I don't think there was anything in there that wasn't just access footage. So like that to Netflix documentary that's been made by some bloke on Final Cut.

Starting point is 01:34:14 No, no, no, they're flying the drone shots over the top of the town. Right. There's some production stuff in there, but it's my point is, it's very minimal. It's all been done in COVID parameters, isn't it? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just bonkers. Like, just for someone to think we really need to get something out there, let's just find loads of footage and a story and piece it all together and then pop documentary library made documentary. Yeah. But man, it's heart wrenching the story. It's right. And the fall on Netflix is just I put it in the newsletter. The fall with, um, oh God, people are going to be screaming down the down the air. Put it on me. The guy from 50 shades of gray here.

Starting point is 01:35:05 Anyway, him, 50 shade of gray, not Robert Pattinson. He's the vampire man. I'm sorry. The guy used to be in take that. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. And then he went back to take that. Yeah, the fall absolutely awesome.

Starting point is 01:35:20 It's got Julie Nanderson from X Files in it. She's got big fake boobies and it's three seasons of really ruthless, very dark, very subvertive. It's interesting, you should watch it. It's really fun. Nice. Well, I'm going to persist. I'm adding those two to the list and I'm going to persist with the staircase if you say it's a slow burn. That's true. Because if you like the first two episodes are just like,

Starting point is 01:35:45 like two minutes of stuff just bumped out into an hour. I would, so I gave up on it the first time I tried to watch it. And Chris was like, you should just watch it. Like, back on, I sat back down and I was like, right, okay, we just got half to it. Like, grit through this. And you get past the point and you're like Oh, got like it but suddenly it like cool. So it's the fact that it's a little bit of a slow burn or it actually plays to its strength Because you can't believe that it's still going like it can't it. I can't be more there's more

Starting point is 01:36:21 There's more it right and then it jumps like 10 years later to the present day and you're like, what? Sorry, this is still going. If you've matched his lawyer, you sir. Yeah, you'll love him with the like the mullet. Yeah, yeah, there's a scene in it where I actually thought of you where he, it's like the day before he's due to give opening statements and someone's like messed up the slides. Oh, when he loses his shit at the guy in the car, he's like, I have about to go out and give and you are messing around. Really?

Starting point is 01:36:59 But he, he throughout the whole thing, I think, is fantastic. Like, just the arguments, the way he presents his arguments. I'm always so in awe of lawyers. I just think that such impressive people. Well, the guy, the accused in the staircase is really rich. And I'm going to guess that the particular lawyer, I can't remember, but I'm going to guess he must have found who's the guy with the largest penis in this particular What is the goal?

Starting point is 01:37:28 Who is the person who is better email them email them? The scene where he's like giving in the rundown like the invoice basically of what this is gonna cost You got a club. No, I love it So he's just gone to like lawyers., sought by size of meatus and selected number one, sorted by density of glands. I'm always so jealous of you because whenever we say a new series, I've seen all of the fall, for example. I watched it when it was on BBC a couple of years ago. You guys have got a lot of power though,

Starting point is 01:38:12 because the stuff that you recommend, I'm like, right, it's getting worse. But it's just such a great position, because I suppose I do the same with TV, as you do with Pro TV, you empower to occasionally find one that's like, I need to tell people about this. But as I'll follow up, you have to sit through.

Starting point is 01:38:28 And I feel like what you get is the cream. I don't really trust you as well, because I think like anything you have, there's nothing you've recommended that I've been like, I was a bit stupid. So we should exploit that Chris. I agree. I agree indeed.

Starting point is 01:38:41 It just sends some really bad ones through. Yeah, no. Look, boys, thank you so much for coming on. If people want to get some business coaching, if they're an offline PT who wants to go online, head to propinfitnis.com slash modern wisdom. And if you want to get some macros, just propinfitnis.com and it'll get you lean. Exactly. So Lily, it'll get you lean. Exactly. Absolutely. We'll get it both. And what do they get if they go to the slash mod and wisdom?

Starting point is 01:39:10 It's that you won't believe the seven things that a little, what is it? It's like the thing of all the free training we've ever given away. It's the thing that's had the most positive feedback, especially like the last third. There is so much fun. Open that loop, man. Open that loop. But yes, if you're a PT who's looking to transition online, obviously, this year has been the year of doing shit online, propinifitness.com slash modern wisdom, go and check it out. I'll just give the boys a message. They're on Instagram. Just give them a message. I'm sure that they'll answer any of your questions before you need to sink your teeth

Starting point is 01:39:42 into too much more. We'll be back with probably a catch-up episode, I guess. We've done a little bit of time. We've probably had a bit of life go on. Lifehacks 114. And then I'm tempted to start the relationship series or the business principal series back up again as well. Oh, yeah. That was fun.

Starting point is 01:39:59 And that is, that is lifehacks. I'll reveal the one life hack. That you won't believe. Yeah, that no one's, that no one's that no one'sologist don't want you to know. And so I would also be keen for if anyone has suggestions for new series in the comments, any new big topics to sink into as long as they're not like really sensitive or I, yeah, I'm not going to list ones. Because it just gives people ideas on what you don't want to talk about.

Starting point is 01:40:29 The internet's listening man. Look boys thank you so much for your time ladies and gentlemen. K. Thanks. Bye, Dan. Yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah

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