Modern Wisdom - #311 - Life Hacks 204

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hola amigos, welcome back to the show. My guests today are Johnny and Yusef from propanefitness.com and it's another Life Acts episode. Today sit back and enjoy as we run through our favourite tools, apps, websites, strategies and resources for a productive and efficient life. Expect to learn Johnny's favourite music to lift heavy to why I'm now a YouTube premium convert, the best types of my protein way, how to fix torn hands when lifting, how I redeliver my Kindle highlights every day, how to optimize your Apple photos, and much more.

Starting point is 00:00:34 As always links to whatever we've talked about will be listed in the show notes below, and we're getting towards the stage where I've almost got enough for another Lifehack's ebook, so I'll probably compile one of those, maybe, maybe towards the end of this year, we'll have done enough Lifehacks episodes to warrant me putting them all together into a new super list so that you can take them away and use them at your leisure. But now it's time for some lovely Lifehacks with Johnny and Yusef. Thanks for having us Chris. Good morning. Good morning indeed.

Starting point is 00:01:23 It is another lifehack's episode, tools, techniques and tactics for a productive and efficient life. If you haven't seen this before, we do a round table, each of us proposes some sort of Lifehack we've come up with over the last few weeks since the previous episode, then the other two, tear it to pieces or immediately proclaim that person as God and say, right, I'ma go buy it or I'm gonna start doing it right now.

Starting point is 00:01:46 And that's it. Not is it. All is the delayed reaction, which is proclaiming the others as an idiot and then a couple of years later, we're all doing that thing. We're all moving in the same direction at once. If you want to check out whatever it is that we talk about, there will be links in the show notes below.

Starting point is 00:02:04 If there are discounts or codes or whatever. I'll have trolled the internet and tried to find them. So if there's something that you enjoy that you want to go and use, just look show notes below comments below and they'll be there. So, Johnny, you first up, there's an up-to-date offer for you. Ah, good. In the face. Right. So I'm, I think what we just spoke about there of like the true test of a life hack is when someone said it two years ago, I make fun of it. And then I say it again. I'm a bit worried about this one. I don't think it's been mentioned before. But it's the sort of thing that Chris would have recommended. So and I would have probably made fun of it as well. Okay. So let's see, it's something that Dan, digital audio broadcasts actually

Starting point is 00:02:47 recommended to me, which is I really struggled. So I don't know whether you remember last time I spoke about struggling with creatine and creatine tablets solved that problem for me. Yeah. I also struggle with morning way, like having a way protein shake in the morning. I just find it a bit, I don't know, like it's never quite what you'd expect it to be. Clear way from my protein is excellent. This is the more kind of juice consistency compared to the milk shake type. Yeah, so yeah, one scoop in water, give it a shake, leave it. It's very important to leave it. Leave it. Leave it. Leave it.

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Starting point is 00:04:19 put in like the most stupid combinations of like, oh, what 95% beta, I don't mean 5% or horny goat's weed, yeah. Horny goat's weed, yeah. Horny goat's weed or waxy maize starch. Oh, we're there. Minging, absolutely disgusting. And all of these, like you'd get casing, which was just like basically a lump of sand that as soon as water touches it, it becomes a solid and you shake it and you think and it just goes, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't,

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Starting point is 00:05:27 20 I think 25 grams of protein or something. So it just I think it just makes it easier. So I do that and then I have that with my creating tablets and my supplements. It just makes it easier to like it's something I always do because I like the taste of it and it's effortless and it tastes like juice. taste of it and it's effortless and it tastes like juice. What is the, what are the flavors that you've tried and what is the optimal powder to water ratio? Great questions, Chris. Great questions. So I've tried watermelon, grape, rainbow candy. Well, you've been, you've gone very deep into this. Did you get sample packs or are these all legitimate ones that you went away through?

Starting point is 00:06:03 I went full went full container. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Okay. Watermelon. Do they say watermelon? Peach tea and then the mango one.

Starting point is 00:06:14 And I think probably the, the map, I think the watermelon is my favourite one. I think. And it's one scoop with quite a bit of water. Come on. Come on. Well, it depends. What you quite a bit of water. Come on. Come on. Well, you want the amount of water. Yeah. So on those metal shakers, I do...

Starting point is 00:06:33 I know they have like milliletna marks, I don't pay attention to that, I do about three quarters full. Three quarters full. With one scoop. With one scoop. Yeah. But the water in first, then the scoop in, shake it, leave it. This is a very important part. I cannot stress that enough, you must leave it,

Starting point is 00:06:53 and then come back to it, let it prepare itself, come back to it in two, three minutes. You have a sort of a tasty juice protein drink. So there is an argument that you should have So there is an argument that you should have tasty protein supplements because that induces the chiffalic phase of digestion that gets you digestive juices going, it helps you absorb the protein better compared to back in the day when we would just pound like unflavored, hydrolyzed way that just tastes vomit because it is vomit. Chemically it's it's pre-digested protein. So it's got that vomiting taste. So now like there's no excuse, there's that you've got peach tea, watermelon. I think my flatmate got me some sample packs for my birthday. I think of this type of way and it was like a limited edition refreshes flavor, parma violets, like all these mad flavors. Great.

Starting point is 00:07:45 I love it. That's really cool. Anyone that wants to go and get that, the code modern wisdom will get you 37% off or greater on everything at my protein. If you go to bit.ly slash modern wisdom, there's a link in the show notes below. Just go and get it if you want to check out this clear way. We hadn't organized that, but thanks, Johnny. Maybe there if you try it. I'm going to, I've got my... It's this third of April, so my account allowance will have been restocked, and I'm going to get one of whatever your top few flavors are. I think you'll love it, Chris. I think Yusef, I can imagine drinking going and then being really annoyed about it, because it is quite expensive. That's the only downside.

Starting point is 00:08:23 Here's what it is. Yuse Seth, what have you got for us? So on take two of the intro of this podcast, you guys asked me, is this t-shirt yours? And they both, you clicked that it wasn't because it fits well. And it's a good choice of t-shirt. And you know me well enough to know that my fashion sense is terrible. So my life hack is whenever you wear a piece of clothing, use it as a chance to be like, because very few people have got two little clothes, I think clothes are un reasonably cheap and usually we hold on to just crap, t-shirts or whatever that we have just because status

Starting point is 00:08:59 quo. So it's use it as a chance to be like, do I really want to wear this in the future, or was this just a decision that passed me has made that I no longer agree with? And so now whenever I put on a t-shirt or a sock or something, I'm like, hmm, could this be the last time that I wear this? And I know that there's some kind of psychology, so I mean, Case in Point, here's my bin with a t-shirt in it. And it's a rubbish t-shirt. I'm not going to miss it. I bought it maybe 10 years ago in Primark. So was it something you said about the level that you value things that you already have is different to if you were to buy it for the first time or if you were to lose it and you want it back.

Starting point is 00:09:45 And our brain plays these funny games to value things differently and you have to kind of get objective and be like, no, no, if I didn't own this right now, would I actually go out and buy it or would I be like, no, it's worthless to me? Is the value only because it's already mine? That's cool. That's like a evolution of the fittest clothing. Survival of the fittest. I have a slight variant on that that I've actually done over the last year. I think I might have mentioned this in a live hack before, but which is I moved basically all of my clothes

Starting point is 00:10:32 until I got separate rail in the hangar. And every time I wore something, I put it on a different rail. And after a six month period, everything that isn't on the main rail, just get rid of us. You're doing the same thing, but in batch. Well, it's the process of life. Formalized process, isn't it? No, I think, hey, I think this is awesome. I have done it a different way, so I've been taking big blocks of clothes to a buddy.

Starting point is 00:11:00 And he does a lot of eBay stuff. And I just said, look, if you want to list these on eBay, take 50% of whatever they make. It was either that or the charity shop. I tell you what's mad, I didn't even thought of this, but the amount of money that you will get for worn but good condition training shoes. I go through a lot of pairs of nanos

Starting point is 00:11:20 and meckons back in the day before the Reebok deal and stuff. And yeah, they're still getting a three-year-old pair of worn but in our right condition shoes will still get 25 or 30 pounds. And then it's... Ferticists just love worn shoes, don't they? I'm not sure that it's all fetishists. Because you don't know who's worn it.

Starting point is 00:11:41 It's surely as part of the fetish, not knowing the person that wore it and thinking about them wearing it. It's not just her dirty shoe, is it? You haven't heard the story about when I was in that flat, haven't you? Yeah, I don't even know what episode that was in. Very, very early on. Why don't you tell it again? Okay. One day I was living in Edinburgh in a flat of a few people, student flat, and this guy came to the door and he had his hair like slicked back and he was in a shirt. We loved to bit spur me. And I was like, hello, and he was like, oh, hi, I'm here for the shoes. We were like, I don't know, he was like, is Sam in? And I was like, yeah. And then someone else

Starting point is 00:12:23 walked past and I'm like and like hello do we know you just start I'm just looking for some and then Sam came I was like oh you're right mate yeah um you hear for the shoes yeah no problem here you go and then we were like well can you just explain what's going on here and he was like well if you must know I have a foot fetish and I've would really appreciate the the shoes and we were just like, okay fine then after he left we were like Sam, well you not bothered that there's a man who's probably doing unspeakable things to your shoes right now and he was like, now it's fine like if you get some more joy out of them then great. Basically this guy had followed him like a week before

Starting point is 00:13:02 and asked him for his like dirty shoes which would in terrible state and he was like well yeah you can have them but I need them until Wednesday when I get a new pair so just come back on Wednesday and I'll give you them. So that does sound related to the person. I've got quite a lot of effort in fact to find that guy's shoes specifically. Yeah. So maybe that's just what's happening to Chris issues. Maybe, maybe, I don't know what I'm going to be resell it. I was going to say I'm one level removed, aren't I, because someone's arbitraging my shoes.

Starting point is 00:13:35 Right, okay. My first one for today is YouTube Premium. I've either of you two got YouTube Premium. So I've done the trial for it and didn't continue with it. Okay. I know that you, Seth, won't have done. No, I've been recommended it and I can't see the appeal. So George Lab is a big proponent of YouTube Premium, couldn't believe that I didn't have it. So I'm really open to getting it, so sell it to me, Chris.

Starting point is 00:14:03 Okay, so I decided it was Michaela Peterson. When we always say this, and this is a life hack for life hacks, right? Everybody that is listening, if multiple different people come to you with the same suggestion independently, just do it. Because the likelihood of the stars aligning in that way, specifically, for people in separate social circles to come to you and say you really should try this. So George had done it but that was just one then Michaela couldn't but I think I sent her a screenshot of something

Starting point is 00:14:33 I was watching on YouTube and she noticed by the top bar that it wasn't YouTube Premium and she said I can't believe that you don't have YouTube premium. You need to, right, right, I will buy it. So upgraded. For the most part, I use YouTube quite a bit. I also watch lots of content that I could just listen to. Also trying to reduce my screen time. And all of that combined means that no adverts is saving me at least 10 seconds to 15 seconds per video. I

Starting point is 00:15:08 think the YouTube have pushed the limit for the unskippable section of an ad now to between six and seven seconds, which is very cheeky of them. And then, so I'm, I don't ever have to skip ads, I can swipe up and go on to other apps or I can just lock my phone and leave it somewhere and listen to what's going on. So a lot of the time when I'm doing podcast prep for a guest, Brian Green, who's this super famous physicist last night, I just left the phone on the side and listened to him and Neil deGrasse Tyson talk, but it's easier to find something on YouTube than it is on Apple podcasts or Spotify. So a lot of the

Starting point is 00:15:44 time actually YouTube is simpler because the search is more optimized. It's better to listen to stuff on there. It's just a problem of having to watch it at the same time, having to stay on your phone to skip the ads. So skipping ads is a huge one being able to play while it's off. You get free access to YouTube music. I haven't even downloaded it. I don't need it. It is not that cheap. When you consider that a Netflix subscription is what, for the four person ultra HD, it's maybe 14 pounds a month now. And I think YouTube premium is 12 to 13 pounds a month. So it's not, it's not cheap. But I mean, scale up how many videos do you watch per day, how much time do

Starting point is 00:16:20 the adverts take from those videos? It's easily I'm easily ROI positive on it Plus I don't have to use my phone. So I am now a YouTube premium convert So it's ad free It is you can close the app and listen to stuff. Can you save stuff offline? Yeah, can you have like? Yeah use case for that would be super minimal It would only be when I was maybe on a plane or traveling somewhere abroad But that would be nice. There's some extra features that you get Another thing is that you you buy it and it attaches to a particular account

Starting point is 00:16:54 So let's say that you guys bought it for the propane fitness channel You would actually both be able to benefit so long as you were both using the propane fitness channel as opposed to what I Progyme both have which is a personal one outside of that. So I bought it, but me and video guide Dean now have access to YouTube premium on the Chris Williamson main channel. So yeah. What do you think, Johnny? Are you sold?

Starting point is 00:17:18 Well, so it links quite nicely with my next life hack. It's just, it's seamless. We're into slow. It's as if we'd prepared. But we haven't. Yeah. Yeah. Should I just go on to that then? So I have been training in my garage, which means I when I log my training so that I don't have to like be relying on my phone all the time. I use my laptop, so I can track and pick, which is even worse. This is even worse because all my work is. But so I have to track a lot of stuff, which, I don't know, benefit all.

Starting point is 00:17:53 This is why Johnny can no longer train in a public gym. Because I've got too much stuff with me. Yeah, I've got basically a portable lab. VR headset. Barometers. Yeah. But so something that I've found found and I can't explain why, but I, if I'm listening to music when I'm training, or if I'm just like training on my own,

Starting point is 00:18:14 and I'm listening to normal music, it's like 75% benefit. But if I listen to a live version of the music, like if I listen to a live band performance or a live DJ set, there's something even though the audio quality is worse, there's something about that, like live experience. The energy. Yeah, it's brilliant, but obviously all of that's on YouTube. So having, I don't know, like, it had, because there's nothing more annoying than like, because there's nothing more annoying than like unwrap the bar and then Grammily has And that has happened so many times to me like the mid-roll

Starting point is 00:19:02 I guess they're always the the most intrusive as well like there's nothing more contrasting than their life insurance policy. Yeah. Yeah. Another thing I had aggressive set and then it's an ad about something completely separate. So I like it. Auto play continues outside of when the app's closed. So it'll still continue to auto play even when your phone's locked, which is nice. So you could create a little playlist and it'll run through the playlist.

Starting point is 00:19:24 I get what you mean about the live thing. Does your live music have to have crowd noise in? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I would agree. Live music without crowd noise is just a poorly recorded normal album track. Well, so, yes, there's a few instances like over the last year when bands and DJs have done live sets, but there's no crowd, and it's worse, it's way worse. Even though the audio is better than I recorded live at a venue, but if it's live at a venue,

Starting point is 00:19:54 like there's some like Karrang for anyone into like metal music. Karrang have done a series in what they call the pit, the Cape it, which is like a holy book. Exactly. Yeah, they organized some gigs in a bar. And it's the audio is terrible, but the atmosphere is great. And those those are awesome. Give us give us what are the three most watched videos, live music videos that you've gone to for training on YouTube? I mean, it's like the number of people who hear my recommendation and think like that sounds good Orbit will be like three and one of them will be you Chris. No, no, no, it doesn't matter tell us

Starting point is 00:20:38 Architects live at Reading what yeah, I Think it'll just be the most recent one. Okay. Bear Tooth at Wacken, first of all. And like anything by, like, you'll hate this Chris, like, Skrillex, Steve Ioki, Martin Garrix, anything like that. Anything like, very like EDM, like, very, lots of crowd noise, lots of, I'd very like EDM, like very lots of crowd noise, lots of three, two, one, just like that. Three, two, one, left. Yeah. I mean, to be honest, as well, like some of the powerlifting, or like lifting motivation videos as well as cheesy as they are, they're good as well.

Starting point is 00:21:20 If you need to really pull a lever on something, something like that can be quite good as well. That's cool, man. There you go. I have been watching Reggie Fassah, who is one of the GST athletes. He's just come third in the UK, in the open, came sixth in the world in the 21.2 workout monster. The guys are freak. But the stuff that he listens to, that those guys listen to, as they're getting ready to send it, like, is it Ian Van Dahl, Castles in the Sky? But like a 170 BPM GABA version, or like some German techno, you said nodding along quietly, they're 170 BPM, that's your sort of shit. But I think one thing that's been lacking definitely over the last year, there's just been no reason to send anything. It's been such a low energy year generally.

Starting point is 00:22:16 You haven't really been laughing with friends. Can you just find, send anything? What's so cool? Yeah, sending it. So what's the reason to get excited about really anything? I go and do a session on the bike in my kitchen. Oh yeah, really going to get myself excited for this to move the five meters from my living room to my kitchen so that I can get on the bike and do steady state for half an hour. And the opportunity is to kind of give yourself some energy,insically by putting some good music on with crowd noise.

Starting point is 00:22:47 So it's like, these are, this is my 10,000 fake friends for today. And they've joined you in your garage, as you're lifting. I think those for those, we know how much that we like to kind of balance energy off each other as humans. Yeah, well, I, something I'm aware of at the moment is like the, I've still got the 10% available to add on in my session by just like being in a gym with other people So you know like a session that's hard out of it a music on out of atmosphere caffeine feel really good It's gonna be like it's still only gonna be 90% was I've had the same thing

Starting point is 00:23:19 A meat or a busy gym. Yeah, it's it's always gonna be better There's always that extra little bit to pull, which is cool. So that's exciting for me. Separate OpenSigo. Live music for training. I like that. Yeah. Live music general.

Starting point is 00:23:33 Can't wait to go to something live. What have I got tickets for? I bought tickets for ABGT 450 with Anjuna Deep the next day. I think it's at the dockyards or something in London. That's good. There's still tickets available if you want to come. George, Ian, George Mac with port tickets for it. But yeah, it's in September. Are you adding it to an Omnivocus? Yeah, beautiful. Beautiful. But yeah, that's going to be sick. That's the first thing that I've got booked in. That's in September. I still don't know if it's going to happen.

Starting point is 00:24:05 If we don't go and see, bring me the horizon in September, Chris, I will be inconsolable. It's already sorted. You know, Ollie's bought a house with his misses in Brazil. I tell you this. Yeah, Ollie's cyings bought a house in Brazil with his misses. So he flogged his one in Sheffield, the one with the gym and the pool. So he flogged that one. And now he was like, and the pool. So he plugged that one and now he was like, uh, just they were out there in Brazil and he couldn't come back. And if he'd come back, he'd have had to stay in a hotel and do all of this thing. And now there's like, what is just the bought a house? I will just buy a house. And then if I need to, like, we'll just keep it. I guess that's what happens when you've got fucky money, isn't it? Yeah, just like it's easy to just buy a house.

Starting point is 00:24:47 Ridiculous man. Honestly watching the guys, and this is on their public stories on Instagram, so everybody else that follows bring me the rise and span mates knows this, but like Matt Nichols, the drummer will spend days like repointing the brick work in his conservatory. Because they're just such working class,

Starting point is 00:25:12 Sheffield Blokes, that happened to be world famous rock stars. But you don't really think about another Aussie Osborne or you know, Aerosmith. You don't think about them doing the pointing in their conservatory, but yeah, there's something I quite like about that. Well, it's when like you could easily pay someone to do it, but there's something rewarding about doing it yourself. Yeah, no. Right. It's doing out of choice, isn't it? What you got different. This is on the back of the YouTube Premium. So I heard your sales pitch and I raise you an alternative method just because for me none of those features hit my pain points to sign up for YouTube Premium partly because

Starting point is 00:25:58 I don't really use my phone. So the idea of being able to play a video with the screen off compared to the screen honest like kind of irrelevant to me. So what I do for YouTube is everything's done entirely through Alfred. You can search and then find a video within Alfred. So like the app, even your browser doesn't have to be open. And then you can play it through a media player called ENA, i-i-n-a. So you can just play any URL, any playlist. It remembers the spot that you

Starting point is 00:26:33 were in last time along the video. You can adjust the speed and skip forward and back and stuff with the keyboard shortcuts. It doesn't buffer, it just loads the whole thing and then you can just play it as if it's like a video that you've downloaded. And it's generally just a lot less intrusive. There's no adverts, I haven't seen an advert in years because I use Brave which is the live hack from a few a couple of years back probably now. So my recommendation would be just get Alfred properly set up, figure out all of your use cases, even if it's stuff that like watching YouTube, you think it there wouldn't be an Alfred fix for it, there probably is. So start with my YouTube video and then just browse the Alfred repository and you will

Starting point is 00:27:20 have a lovely time. Good problem with Alfred is it's like a, it's a blank canvas with a really nice set of paints and like you've got, you've got the potential to create something brilliant, but you could also do like a smiley face stick man, like you've got to know what you're doing, you've got to know what you're trying to create. That is such a good analogy.

Starting point is 00:27:38 Yeah. Yeah, so you've just tried to give me some sort of workflow, macro workflow thing for Alfred sent me at the other day so that I can search my notes because I've got 2000 notes on Apple Notes and you've sent me some workflow. I pressed a button and then what came up

Starting point is 00:27:56 that I didn't have the Python CSS like existing library module to plug it in. And I was watching the genesis of a Scoby problem occur in front of my eyes. I'd been infected with it. I was seeing it, the, was it Prometheus that I was watching the Prometheus video of?

Starting point is 00:28:15 If evolving from the embryonic state, it's the fully flage daily. Yeah, it's whenever that happens, and like the sore music plays, you know, when he's going like, I'd like to play a game. And like things, it slowly becomes really serious and you realize how enormous the problem is.

Starting point is 00:28:28 And you're like, well, I'm stuck now, that's it. That's exactly what he's trying to do. Yeah, so I should say, like, getting YouTube premium is the like, simple, sledgehammer solution. It's like, look, I'll just, I'll just pay the 15 quid. Just leave me alone. I just want to listen to some music with the screen off. Thank you very much, yes.

Starting point is 00:28:44 If you're willing to put in some time and you know, you're willing to kind of get out the paints and sketch out the picture, the skeleton first and then paint it on top and you can put in the time for it then Alfred. So if you've got more money than time by YouTube premium, if you've got more time than money, use e-mail and Alfred. The point of Alfred is that it saves you money long term, but there is a bit of, and I mean, obviously this doesn't go for it. If anyone using a Windows computer, like that's several steps away, you just throw it out the window.

Starting point is 00:29:16 What you want to do is, if you take your computer and go out of your back door, open up the recycling paper, just put it in there. Gently deposit it in. Come back to your seat. With a hammer first, you forgot the recycling. Just put it in there gently. The positive. Come back to your seat with a hammer. First, you forgot the hammer. Right. My next one is typefully.app. So I sent this to use if yesterday. If you are someone who uses Twitter and wants to create long tweet threads from single blocks of text or from

Starting point is 00:29:42 text that's been worked up in the paragraphs, typefully allows you to write out the entire tweet thread, including previews for URLs and everything else. It brings up a live preview of exactly how it's going to look on your account. And you don't need to move things around between the different thread windows, or the tweets within the thread windows. You can just move the text within a block, a typing block typically, like you'd have on your notes, and it'll automatically do it. It won't cut off halfway between different sentences. It's all formatted beautifully, and then it's one button to press send. It's like, and it's free. It's ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.

Starting point is 00:30:19 That solves a problem that for many people, like, what? Tweet threads, what's that? But for people that write Tweet threads, it is such a ball egg to get it all into the right formatting. So not much more to say about that. Just type fully.app. You should go and check it out. If you're a Twitter user that uses Tweet threads, then it'll save your life. Johnny, where you go? This. What's it going to be? I don't know. Um, this. What's it going to be? What welder?

Starting point is 00:30:55 I think this is something that you may have recommended to me, Chris, but some, some time ago. So they have a kit, which includes this tub, which smells great. And that's part of the benefit of it. And there's a little stick and a little pumice stone that comes in a pack. I used to have a problem. I think you both see it actually. Like, it would happen to me all the time where I'd be deadlifting and training for months

Starting point is 00:31:16 and then a huge Carlos would go on my hand. And it would be, like, I wouldn't be able to train on it. And it would feel like when you touched your hand, you were touching raw nerve ending. It was so painful. So this stuff, I put it on my desk and like just before I start work, use it. And it's easy to do because it smells brilliant.

Starting point is 00:31:36 And I mean, touch wood, I've not had any callus problems since I've been using it. For the people that don't know, what is the Wadwilder product? What does the balm do? What's it got in it? It's the same thing as lannolin. It's lannolin, isn't it? That's the thing that like softens your skin. So this is the like the daily cream. And then

Starting point is 00:31:55 there's a stick that you put just on your, um, just on your calisthenes of your hands. And then there's a pumice stone to like sand down the uneven edges. Do any stuff. What do I want to do? So I've never used the cream and I've never used the pumice stone, but it's like a pritz stick. Yeah, exactly. So that's the, it literally looks like a pritz stick.

Starting point is 00:32:16 You push it up from the bottom and then you just do little circular motions. It does smell awesome. It's fixed. It's fixed my hands so quickly. You know when you're doing the open, when the open used to be six weeks long, and you tear them one week, and by the next week, they were getting back to usable again, which is pretty insane. Yeah, I'm, what well does, and I think you can buy it on Amazon as well. So I mean, just go and buy it on Amazon. If you're, if you're someone that lifts and needs to protect your hands

Starting point is 00:32:45 and you find that you're getting callous tanters, especially anyone that's in CrossFit should already know about this. They use, it's like, Smithies working hand cream or something like that. And it's one pound for a huge tub of it from Aldi, but it just smells like, well, it smells exactly as you would think Smithies

Starting point is 00:33:03 working men's hand cream would smell. Like working man. Yeah. You can use veterinary odour cream as well, but that's obviously smells like a veterinary product. Odour. It's funny. So Johnny and I were talking about this recently where if you're a power lifter and you

Starting point is 00:33:20 think your calluses are bad, like look at the calluses of a weight lifter, if you're a weight lifter, it's not bad. Look at a crossfit. And then if you think your calluses are bad, look at the gymnasts, like some of the stuff that you see at gymnastics, like people doing something off the rings and they just like flap of their palm just off. Like I think their fingers half off and they've got tape wrapped it. Do you know how this is this not a problem with gymnastics? I've never heard. Yeah, so I'm I don't like doing rings very much. I'm not very good at rings and bar. So I just kind of don't do them. So for me, floor and pommels, pommels not really

Starting point is 00:33:51 does not know. It's a pro. Yeah. But what's it? Caravians? Whenever someone, like when I was first told about like hand care, I was like, no, I'm not going to do. I'm lifting 310 kilos. I don't need to worry about am passed hand care. All right. Well, it's the things you end up like really valuing, like the skin on your hands, stomp like it's fine until you can no longer grip something at all. Like it's fine until opening a door hurts.

Starting point is 00:34:18 And then you're like, okay, it's at the forefront of your experience as well. Right. Like there's nothing. It's the same as having a back injury or having an aching shoulder or a pulled neck. It's so there. Just about the time here. I think back pain is the worst for that.

Starting point is 00:34:35 Anything axial, toothache, back pain, anything along like the midline axis, where it is just that, isn't it? In front of the fierce, right. What have you got, Seth? So this is free advertising for a different company, but I recently had a stake from Block and Bottle, which is a place in the Northeast that does, as you can imagine, craft beers and craft steaks. Whatever you call it, boutique steaks. Everyone in there has got a beard and a plug in their ear

Starting point is 00:35:05 and they're all, you come in there like, hello sir, how can I help you? Oh, we have this particular range of cow today and it's from the fragrant forests of Azkaban and there's a story about the beef, each piece of meat. Incredible. And it's all, you know,

Starting point is 00:35:20 they've got loads of different cuts and types of meat and it's a bit pricey, but it's no more than you would pay in a restaurant or something. And when you make it yourself, you just treat it with such care and it is beautiful. And so I like a ribeye, that's definitely my top choice steak and I'm willing to fight anyone who disagrees, but rib eyes supposed to be cooked medium or medium well as opposed to other steaks because it's so fatty and you want the marbling and the fat to infuse throughout it. Now, the hack is when you have a fatty cut of steak, if you end up with grisly bits, a lot of people throw that away,

Starting point is 00:36:05 but you can just fry it harder at the end and you've then just got, like, because then it just melts and creates like new, very nice bits. You don't want to waste it. So the hack is, don't throw away gristly bits. Just try frying them hard and see what happens. And order expensive steak as well. Yeah. So can you order block and bottle online? They deliver. Possibly.

Starting point is 00:36:34 It's, they have a shop with a big queue out the front and you know, you can, it's all very customized. It's a great experience. It's in Heaton. Okay. I've seen a few people talking about, so I actually saw KinoBody mentioned that Michaela Peterson had recommended a meat delivery company to it. Yeah, she's sponsored.

Starting point is 00:36:54 Right. So I've just seen a few people talking about how they've had steak delivered. So I've just got, I've literally just had reached out to me. I think it's the dry aged steak co or something. I've just reached out to me about the show. I've told them to send some stuff out and I'll see how it is. But yeah, I think high quality organic meat people are now becoming increasingly concerned about the different antibiotics that are being pumped into their food and stuff like that. So it

Starting point is 00:37:24 doesn't surprise me that as carnivod diets become more popular as people are going keto or low carb, the increasingly high quality meat is a thing. Yeah, it's not something I ever, I try and limit the kind of bandwidth that I spend on things that I can't control. But this is probably pushing out the precipice of like maybe this is something we should be looking after because it was a interview with a farmer on Joe Rogan talking about like a chicken breast in the States costs like I don't know, not one dollar 20 or something. And he was like, there is no way that that should cost one dollar 20 like something is

Starting point is 00:38:04 being something missing from that. Yeah. And what's happening is that that should cost $1.20, like something is being something missing from that. Yeah. And what's happening is that the environmental cost is being offset so that you can get a chicken breast for super cheap. But as a result, you're getting loads of, yeah, antibiotics and fecal matter in the food and all that kind of stuff to be able to keep the prices so low. And so his whole idea is like the farming structure needs to be completely redone. I had Chris Bayber, who is MNS's in-house food chef, had him on the show a couple of weeks ago.

Starting point is 00:38:37 And he was saying the one thing that he always goes organic and the highest quality at his meat, he actually says that he goes vegan two days a week so that he can afford to go the highest quality meat for five days and he would rather do that than have lower quality meat across the week. He also said another thing which is when you're eating a steak you're supposed to use the steak knife to cut cross through the fibers as opposed to long way down the fibers. The reason being that those fibers are long and stringy and they get stuck in your teeth and you can break

Starting point is 00:39:10 them up immediately by just cutting across them. And I didn't know this rule. Did you guys know this rule? Okay. Yeah, but I'm a pretty staky man. So I didn't know I didn't know it. I knew that. Yeah, so just cut across so that you break up the five the five bars already and then yeah, I like that. So yeah, cut cut across. Um, what am I going to do next? Okay, so I'm going to do readwise.io, which is anybody that follows me on Instagram will know that pretty much every day there's a couple of quotes that come from a book and read wise is the service that I used that delivers me that. So it automatically syncs in with your Kindle and highlights. Then it redelivers you a set number of highlights at a set time over email each day. If you want to go onto the website, there's a partner app as well.

Starting point is 00:40:00 You can use it as a flashcard service kind of like Anki for space repetition so that you start to actually learn the insights you've got. You can favorite them, you can discard them, you can use it as a flashcard service, kind of like Anki for space repetition, so that you start to actually learn the insights you've got. You can favor it them, you can discard them, you can delete them, you can also upload directly from your Kindle on documents, which are not in your Kindle library. So let's say that you've sent a PDF to your Kindle, you can do an upload every so often, and they give you a periodic reminder to say, it's been three months since you plugged your Kindle in, maybe you should go and do that, or you can turn it off. Once you've got it set up, it is super unintrusive. And every single day, I get four quotes that I've highlighted from my books, from books that I've read. And if you've made

Starting point is 00:40:40 notes in Kindle as well, so you can highlight something and then you can make a note if you choose to. So I'm starting to do that as well. So here's something that I think, and oh, here's what I think about that thing right now. And it also includes that. It's phenomenal. Like for remembering the things that you care about, about reading, it's outstanding. And um, so you take notes while you're reading and feed it into read wise. No, and it then no.

Starting point is 00:41:07 So the highlight that you make on Kindle, yeah, it's just as soon as you do that, it just takes that. But there's also an option when you highlight something, you can press on it and make a note. In the Kindle, but you don't need to, I do that very rarely. That's maybe like one in 20. And it then emails them back to you or something like that. Yeah, just randomly picks, randomly picks them up and pulls them through and then as they come through, you can either discard them or favorite them or just leave them.

Starting point is 00:41:34 And I think I have thousands, thousands of highlights now. That's pretty cool. So like every day you just get a little reminder of something you've run in the past. I get four, four little passages. And yeah, one thing that it's done which I need to do program is now, sometimes I want to highlight something because I think it's important in the book. But I know I actually start thinking about how that's going to appear when it comes up on my read wise. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

Starting point is 00:42:01 no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, deep in the Kindle ecosystem. I love it. I need to do that as well because I have, but I've just, people keep getting me physical books and now I've just got to get through them before I cover you. That's a bit this week for you, I imagine. Yeah. Thank you. Thanks, mate. Thanks so much. Right. Blobson, great. What you got? A hack for improving a review process. So if anyone listened to Chris's interview with Chris Sparks in December, end of December, talks about like week, talks about monthly reviews or

Starting point is 00:42:56 quarterly reviews. So as we're recording this, it's like the end of quarter one of 2021. So I always find reviewing, you know, the standard review questions are like, what went well, what didn't go well, where the hell do you begin with that? Especially if you're like looking back over a long period of time. Again, this is something we may have already covered, but it's something that's been more relevant for me recently. So I think an easy way to prompt your memory of what went well and what didn't go well is look at your, firstly, your calendar. So if you have events, things that you've done, stuff that you've went, like maybe not that good at this point, but generally like people you saw, stuff you did, highlights, and it's really

Starting point is 00:43:36 easy to pick out because you look at days and you're like, oh yeah, that was awesome. Maybe you've completely forgotten about it until you see it on the calendar, or like actually that week was rubbish, and here's why. So it's a really easy way. You just treat your calendar like a past record of what happened and then you've got it ready to go and saved. Or your, if you take a lot of photos, your photo real, like your camera real on your phone as a way of just remembering things that happened or places that you've been to, etc. So I just an easier way to prompt the memories because I think it's quite easy to forget things that went well or didn't go well.

Starting point is 00:44:09 So can I just ask something to that? Day one have now, they look like they're moving more in that direction. So they're launching deeper calendar integration, more kind of photos integration and stuff so that you can basically like, yeah, whip through almost a museum of your life. Pretty good. Pretty good. I was like, was it time hop? Remember time hop?

Starting point is 00:44:32 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which was logged in on all of your different social media accounts and it would show you what they steal all your data and they sell it to China. And yeah. The day one does that already. So whenever you make a new entry in day one, it's like in 2015, on this day, you would do it in the eye.

Starting point is 00:44:50 Bloody hell, I totally forgot about that. But it's kind of a different, you don't think like, oh yeah, that's helpful to review 2015. You know, so you're saying that when you're doing a review, check your calendar and your photos, because it's a good prompt. It's just stuff that most people, so I know I think use of the leads calendar entries. So maybe some people do that, I don't know, like I personally... No one does that.

Starting point is 00:45:11 No one does that. You never know. So like, because I'm one of those perverts that uses a calendar and calendar events ask to do items. So... Pursing them on. has to do items. So, yeah. Yeah, so like, if like, I can look at January and remember like key things that happened,

Starting point is 00:45:37 like stuff that I did or stuff that, but it is more events based and then photos of things that you usually have some things memorable or like interesting. Most people's reaction at this point is to take a photo of it. So if you've got that as well, it's a way of like, most people's reaction at this point is to take a photo of it. So if you've got that as well, it's a way of, like most people's photo real on their phone, it's like highlights of stuff that's happened, right? So it's a really easy way to look back. What's the process that you go through for your quarterly review? Have you taken it from somewhere? It's just as simple as that.

Starting point is 00:45:59 Like what went well? What didn't go well? What am I going to do more of? What am I going to do less of? Have you split that into, like like career health relationships and other? Yeah, I think sometimes like the categories thing, because that's the struggle I have with the Chris Barck's framework is like there's probably things that are at any one period of your life are like forefront of the focus.

Starting point is 00:46:18 So you'll have like a period of your time where there's a lot of focus on health or a lot of focus on relationships or work. So there's not always tons of stuff in each category. So I tend to just freeform it and just do generally, like what do I think is going well? What do I think isn't going well? And just whatever comes to mind really. Like to be honest, I don't feel very good at the process.

Starting point is 00:46:38 Like it's something I struggle with. But I think most people do. At least you're doing it though, man. Like I am, even my weekly review on Omni focus. I've said to you before I'm still struggling to discipline myself with that because it's just an arduous task and the desire is always to do work Not to review and plan work. It's like well. I could spend this time planning and reviewing doing you know Like well, no like the reason that you can do better is because you've reviewed and planned So I've got I So I've got Greg

Starting point is 00:47:05 McHughan coming on the show soon in his new book Effortless, which is all about how you make the things that you have to do easier. So I've got a couple of chapters into it and I'm looking forward to maybe getting some. So I was going straight on the list. If someone could buy me the physical book version of that piece. I'm just linked to that before we move on. So with the weekly review thing, I've found, and I suppose this isn't someone you maybe can't always do this, but we have an improper meeting on a Monday, like a weekly meeting. I know that if I've done my weekly review prior to that meeting, I'm more, I'm like, the meeting's more useful. So like, if I've been through everything, then I'm able to like delegate things or bring things up that I need to talk about or

Starting point is 00:47:55 actually this is relevant now or whatever. So having, and again, it's hard if you don't have that, but having some kind of accountability, if I do it by this point, then this thing is better. It should, because it's never fun, really, is it? Like looking over all of the projects you have and trying to decide what's relevant, what isn't relevant, like it's not immediately enjoyable. So if you can add some kind of necessity to it, I've found that really helps.

Starting point is 00:48:18 That is good to an obvious explicit outcome benefit that you're going to get. Like a line in the sand of like on Monday at 1.45pm. I need to have to mock the review. Yeah. Otherwise, it's like, I'm sat there going, is there anything to say? Well, I would have done it for a week to review. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:48:36 Good. Well, you've just told you, Seth, there, if you turn up and you're, you stay quite for most of the meeting, he knows you've had a shitty weekend. Yeah, exactly. Let's go. Because everything's okay. What you got? I was going to do a physical one, but actually, I think this one's taken the line like because

Starting point is 00:48:51 of what Johnny has just said, which is the Apple Photos app, particularly the Mac version, but they integrate so well. I've upgraded to the full bells and whistles I Cloud store is just because it's like it's just so smooth now. And I went through a process of, you know, a few years ago when my dad died and we cleared out the house, there was loads of like family photos and all that kind of stuff. And there's just like so much stuff that you get archived and we've like been arranging to get it scanned.

Starting point is 00:49:24 And then you're like, oh, now I've just got like folders of old memories that aren't really doing anything. So I went through and basically just put them all into Apple Photos, still got the rest to be digitized by a company. But what it allows you to do is it just makes everything fully searchable because by the time you've got over a thousand photos, you're never going to be like looking through them individually. And quite often you want to pick one for a specific purpose or to make a card for someone or whatever. And so what Apple Photos does is you tag people's faces in it and it links with your contacts and then it'll start to recognize more photos of that person and also location tags if you took the photo with

Starting point is 00:50:05 your phone. So suddenly rather than having folders or whatever, you've just got a fully searchable database where you can type in someone's name, where you can type in like Belgium or 2017 or whatever and it's just like the smoothest experience. So I think if you can learn to leverage it fully and also be quite selective about what you put into Apple photos, don't just like, you know, when you're out and you take like 10 photos of someone on a bridge and you're like, some of them are like that and then you just say, I'll sort of not later or I'll delete the dodgy ones in a bit and you never get around to it. You need to make a habit of like either at the end of the day or just at the time, around to it, you need to make a habit of like either at the end of the day or just at the time, like picking the best photo rather than like leaving all seven in there.

Starting point is 00:50:49 It makes like little video montages as well, doesn't it? It's so funny. Yeah. Plays music over them. Yeah. 2020. You're 2020. Just a bunch of like selfies on your own.

Starting point is 00:51:08 You're looking lonely existential crises. Yes. What do you use Apple Photos for mostly? Because I don't know about you, Johnny, but I very rarely go back through my photos. It's just a media storage device as far as I'm concerned. I'm okay. So let me talk you through. Because you don't strike me. We don't take a lot of photos one more together. So I don't know whether... Yeah, we don't. I feel like we should take more because we're like we're usually having too

Starting point is 00:51:37 much fun to take photos. We're like, oh actually, like, it'd be quite a good. So I've got... It's just my body. It's my body. Yeah, that's what we need. So I've got a shared album with my girlfriend. So anytime we're like out somewhere or whatever and we take some photos, we just both put them into the shared album and then we've got like a great idea like that's better than the original hack. Yeah, well, original hack is just use Apple photos, isn't it? Right, so this is a subpack within the hack. Yeah, and then I've got one for stuff that's potentially going to go on Instagram. So if you have a good shot that would be a PR photo, that kind of thing, then you've got ones organized by event or location or whatever else. And so as a result, you can end up, oh, I've got one for like

Starting point is 00:52:28 testimonials that client send us, one of the property that I'm working on and developing, so it can get like kind of time lapse effect. So I think using just using the tools to its full extent. Having a shared album with your partner is a good one. One thing that I did when I went away to Rome was get a create a shared album between all of the people that go away on holiday. Yeah, there's nothing worse than like 10 people having like such.

Starting point is 00:52:59 Oh, can you, can you, can you add drop me, add drop me those ones from today? Oh, what a, what a pain in the buzz. So, well, so many applications are like, like every event like weddings, all these things, like you can just create cloud shared albums of. Well, the consequence, if you don't, like Claire is going to have some

Starting point is 00:53:15 absolute cork of a photo that she's only sent to one person and then like, like, then Claire forgets her eye cloud login. Oh, and then that's it. Right. Right. I think that's it. Correct it. Right. I think that's back of the day. Would you reckon the, have a shared album with your partner? I think just use the app or like set it up properly.

Starting point is 00:53:35 Yeah, and then everything's easier. I'm so impressed with how much, how much you use your laptop as opposed to your phone, Yusef, I think. I just hate my phone, my thumbs are too fat. But you've got quite a big one now. You haven't got the tiny little. Yeah, that's true. It's just because the speed, so we did a test on when we were recording the podcasty the day, just to demonstrate how much faster Yusef is with a laptop than most other people. So I try to find a previous episode of a podcast we've done.

Starting point is 00:54:06 And I knew what it was called, and I knew where it would be. And I was still searching. It's like minutes later, and you should just just want to look. I think he typed six keys. Six keys in the longest delay was waiting for the laptop to load. Of course it was.

Starting point is 00:54:19 Yeah. So that's why it doesn't use his phone. When you use his quicker than a silicon trip, it's searching for stuff that makes it. Yeah. That makes it a lot of fun. Andlock his phone. The time taken for the face idea to work. He'd have found it by then. So that's it. So I think my phone has associated with like frustration. Like, it's taken too long. Like, come on. No, I love a wall. Right. My next one is a quote from, I think it's originally from James Clear, don't practice what you do not want to become.

Starting point is 00:54:48 And basically, it reminds us that there is no such thing as not instantiating a habit. You're always embedding some form of habit. It's either, is it the one that you want to do, or is it one that you don't want to do? There is no, oh well, this isn't me doing a thing. No, no, no, no, even not doing a thing is doing a thing. And do not practice what you do not want to become is such a lovely little mantra to remind yourself that when you're stuck between two choices between the thing that you know that you probably should do and the thing that maybe the lazy present self is tempting you to do. Okay, is this version what I want to become? It almost invariably is going to be no. So it reminds you to take a third party perspective. It takes you out of your, the present self, which is inevitably lazy and takes the path of least resistance, it's just, how do I want to look back on today tomorrow?

Starting point is 00:55:48 What would I have wanted me to do right now? And almost always you make the right choice. So should I hit the snooze button? Okay, well, do you want to become the sort of person that regularly hits the snooze button? Because if you hit snooze today, not hitting snooze tomorrow will be harder, not easier. The way that, yeah, you're right, you can't be harder, not easier. The way that...

Starting point is 00:56:05 Yeah, you're right, you can't be like, oh, but this doesn't count. And you know, Kate Locklin says something similar of, you're always practicing something. And so the, or I think I heard another one that's like, there's no, this isn't the dress rehearsal, like this is just your life, like, you can't be like, oh, no, but this is the rehearsal, so it's fine, I'll just snooze today. It's a scary one. You can't be like, oh no, but this is the result. So it's fine. I'll just snooze today. It's a scary one. It's the it's caving to the like mental narrative of like, uh, like this time,

Starting point is 00:56:34 it's a one off, but tomorrow, like tomorrow, next week, Monday, I'll, it'll be different. Like that as soon as you fall for that trick, you're more likely to fall for it every subsequent time, which means you're less and less likely forever to do the thing that you're trying to do. And then you're just drilling the habits of, oh, the last time I've listened to that. Precisely. There's layers and layers of how you're talking to yourself and what the habits are. But the way that myelin works, you don't get to not lay myelin sheets down in your brain.

Starting point is 00:57:02 The action that you make will lay down some sort of pathway. So you might as well decide to reinforce the ones of the things that you want to do, not the ones of the things that you don't want to do. If you could voluntarily have a timeout button for your brain that you could turn on or off, would you have one installed? What would happen? So no, myelin is laid down when the timeout is enabled. Oh, God, yeah.

Starting point is 00:57:32 I just go crazy. I go because that's what people think is happening when they give themselves a day off. When they give themselves a right, okay, well, I'm not going to follow my diet. I'm not going to do my morning routine. I'm not going to train. I'm not going to get up on time. That's what they think is happening. They think, oh, well, yeah, but like, this is just, this doesn't really count. It doesn't matter when what it is is just another day that's chipping into the days of good habits.

Starting point is 00:58:03 Johnny. Guys, I'm going to have to go the toilet. Okay, that's fine. We can talk about you while you go. Come on. All right. It's exactly. It's normally me as well. It is the end of a life hacks.

Starting point is 00:58:16 My bladder is burstin, but luckily I went for the pre-week. What have you done this week? I have been finishing up my geriatric through rotation. So what do you want to next? Moving on to a GP practice, which is the the make or break. So interestingly, speaking of kind of productivity,

Starting point is 00:58:36 I know people that have performed so well in, so Julian, for example, performed so well in his GP kind of entrance application. They didn't have to do an interview and he just got a job secured on the GP training program. When he did his rotation in GP, he sacked it off because he was like, this is not the kind of neat day has clear boundaries kind of situation that you'd have in a hospital where you turn up, you handed over some stuff, you do the jobs and then at the end of the day you hand over to someone else and it's

Starting point is 00:59:06 continuous. In the GP practice, it's like there's a bunch of stuff that happens on Monday and then you've got to follow it up on the Wednesday and you've got to make right the 50 letters here and and it just opens up a bunch of loops and it doesn't get to the you know you you don't have a clear end to each day so you just got like this ongoing mass of stuff to do. So it'll be interesting to see how... So will you be a GP for a short while? GP with a lot of support. So I'll be an F2 doctor. So like having my own patient load but with a special GP to go and ask if I'm stuck about anything. It's usually administrative stuff. It's like, oh, how do you refer to this particular clinic or who do you send this person to or whatever? The hierarchy of medicine is insane. When you realize just how long and drawn out it is,

Starting point is 00:59:58 that the people who've been studying for five years and then on placement for two still basically just get to file the paperwork for the people that are fully qualified. Yeah, it depends on the specialty. If you're in something super specialised, then that's definitely the case. Or if it's surgery, then you can be very graduate, which is great for the patient, because you're never going to be operated on by someone who's just yoloing the procedure at two in the morning. Our cousin, Joanne, who's here on placement. Well, she was great in the hairdressers.

Starting point is 01:00:37 Joanne, do you mind just filling in, because this woman needs a appendix taking out of her. Oh, right, I'll give it a call. Fucking hell. So I watched that. Is it three identical strangers about those twins in New York that were separated at birth, adopted, and then if you haven't watched it, three identical strangers on Netflix is amazing, very heartwarming, documentary.

Starting point is 01:01:00 It's a great watch, and I won't spoil it for you, but these three guys get separated, and then they come back and find each other like 19 years old and they're triplets and one of the guys, one of the guys they start living together after a few years, one of the dudes needs is appendix taken out, it's got appendicitis, but he doesn't have any medical insurance. So he goes into the hospital under his brother's name, who does have medical insurance and gets his appendix taken out under the name of his identical brother. Although, surely you could do that with anyone. Like, in the states that they have photo ID,

Starting point is 01:01:37 I think they're almost definitely to have photo ID for medical stuff. So it's all done on, it's all done, everyone's got to have an insurance policy, don't they? I feel like it was just saying like, oh, this is my name, honest promise. Like, there'd be a lot of fraud going on. So I feel like you could do that in the UK, couldn't you? I mean, I've not tested the limits of the fraud. I think it's quite hard. What you got, blob? Okay. Um, the question of which direction to take things in. How many more are we doing?

Starting point is 01:02:09 We got a bit of time. We'll be doing at least a couple each. Okay. So, in that case, this is a diet related hack, which is low-calorie hot chocolate. What is the... Is it just less of the spoons in, or is it the same number of spoons? Don't know. But it's lower calorie. I don't really have like normal hot chocolate, so I don't know. But it's an easy, it's just like 60 calories. So they get to the end of the day, you've hit your calories

Starting point is 01:02:41 for the day, and you think like like I really would just quite like something sweet It's negligible like wouldn't you run tracking it? There's a I think it's galaxy chocolate do like a 60 calorie one So if you're dieting It's just a really easy thing to have to add in at the end of the day. I wonder what a normal scoop of hot chocolate is. I think that's a pretty high calorie. It's all right. It's the number of spoons that's the thing.

Starting point is 01:03:10 That's why I'm so surprised that, because it's like, what is the bulk of the stuff? If it's not... It'll be warfuel and artificial and like, it's not like a healthy drink. It's just filled with carcinogens, isn't it? Yeah. So if you tried other ones, there is a galaxy,

Starting point is 01:03:27 is the galaxy the only one that you've tried? It's the only tried one. Yeah. I'm not looking for the edge with it. It's something that just ticks a box. Yeah. And you have a heart, con-yacht noodles. Yes. Con-yacht. The low-calorie, like rubberized noodles. Yes, the low calorie like rubberized noodles. They're like two calories per pack. Yeah, it's ridiculous. I mean, it's not food, is it? Yeah, it's just bulk. Yeah, yeah, I like you eat it and you think I shouldn't be eating this like this. This feels like

Starting point is 01:03:59 if I were to eat my pencil case. But I think when you're deep in a diet, when you're like, you can start to see pancreas, it's a greeting insulin, you're just like, yeah, give me it. Yeah, I don't think. Yeah. Anything to feel mechanically full, I'll at least, whether it's like tissue paper, noodles, localareed headspaces, isn't it? Low calorie hot chocolate. I'm, man, I think that and zero calorie jelly or low calorie jelly, Yeah. All of these little ways to the charity popcorn, the low calorie charity popcorn as well, all just little things that you can chip away. There's also like fruit juice lollies,

Starting point is 01:04:38 you know, like a ice cream, not an ice cream, but you know what I mean? You both know what I mean. Yeah. Those, but like an orange juice one, they're also really like a calorie, same sort of thing. Are you dieting at the moment? I, yeah, I am.

Starting point is 01:04:52 What are you going to? From and two. I was, when I started, I was 106 kilos. I'm now 96 kilos. No way. Are you going down to the 93s? That's the plan, yeah. Fuck.

Starting point is 01:05:08 I want to be within firing range of the 93s. I want to be like 95 and under. And then I just want to nip in and put my deadlift back all up again. I'm such a terminator at 93. What do you think I'll be? When are you working towards peaking for? It starts later this year. I'm just like enjoying training and being a hundred and six kilos and ninety six kilos? the general effort of life is slightly lower across the board. So like walking any exertion is easier.

Starting point is 01:05:49 Because obviously, this, like imagine carrying a tanky-low plate. Like if I gave you a tanky-low plate and said, you've got to take this with you everywhere you go, you can't leave it anywhere. Like if you go at the shop and leave it on the check out, like you've got to go back and get it, you've got to have it with you the whole time. It's so funny.

Starting point is 01:06:04 Like I remember the kind of experiencing the opposite of that, because I went from 59 to 90 kilos in about four or five months. And yeah, you get a pump in your lower back going upstairs and like, shin splints just from like less than 15 inches of running. Awful. You just feel worse in everywhere. I'm structurally unadapted to your own body somehow. Yeah, especially if that happens quickly. So I gained like I gained my my tank kilos.

Starting point is 01:06:34 I gain my tank kilo plate over like six months. So not quite as aggressive as as you said, but this will be the light that you've been for ages and the lights have been since 2017. Wow. That's awesome man. Congratulations. Thanks man. Seth, what you got? Let me know if I've said this one before, but it's keys in the fridge. Yeah. I have said this before. Yeah. Really? Okay. So in that case, let's switch to Yeah, really? Okay. So in that case, let's switch to speaking of the high, so that for anyone who doesn't know what that is, it's probably three episodes back. Speaking of 170 BPM music, French call is the one. French call. It's such a great joy to end up with this is. It's such a great joy to end up with this is. So for anyone that enjoys a bit of kind of EDM music and things are, but I just wish

Starting point is 01:07:31 it was just twice as fast and a bit more distal. And I wish it just like, Blumah head off a bit more. French Corps is the one. Have a listen to Bill X, Dr. Peacock and Sepha, and they will change your life. So interestingly, you said, I listened to some Dr. Peacock the other day. Did you? I think it's because you tried to tag him. Oh, yeah. It's something on Instagram.

Starting point is 01:07:59 He's a genius. And I saw the like message throughout. Now listen to his latest like Viking, trans one. Yeah. Viking dance or something like that. Welcome to Valhalla. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. That was nearly there. It's, I liked it more than I thought. It's a gateway drug. It is a bit much of those, isn't it? It's the kind of thing that you hear what it's like eating a spicy chili and you're like, oh, that's too much for me. And then I can day later you like. I'm always, how would you describe the sound of listening to a journey?

Starting point is 01:08:35 So it feels like there's a lot of noise. So there's a wall of noise that hits you and there's a, there's a hint of a, of a melody there. And someone you'll hold the word melody next door. It's a lacroy. If we look, it's like, I almost find myself like wanting the melody to continue. Yeah. It's going, I don't do, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no And then so like I think listening to it's like a met there's a mental strain to listening to it for me One description. Yeah, it pushes you a limit. It I find it beautiful like Gabba brings me to tears Absolutely beautiful. Yeah, but there's no melody

Starting point is 01:09:19 I think that's they so much about you as a human say so much about you as a human. Think it's just matching your mental overclocked brain, yeah, precisely. That's by neural beats. That's us by neural beats. It's noise canceling or brain, isn't it? But like so similarly, I, I'll listen to music that has a lot of shouting in it, I suppose the only way it is grabbed by this. And I'll play it with has a lot of shouting in it, I suppose, as the only way it describes, I guess.

Starting point is 01:09:46 And I'll play it with the people and they'll hate it. And they'll say, why'd you like it? And I don't really know. Like, you can't really hear what they're saying. He sounds pretty annoyed about something. You can't. Of course, you're upset at best. Vex.

Starting point is 01:09:58 You vexed about something that you can't understand what. But I really like it for some reason. And there's like, you know, when you meet someone who has a similar music taste, you don't, there's just an injury at home. Yeah, you don't know. Like, oh, do you hear that? Oh, yeah, yeah, and if you hear that all of my,

Starting point is 01:10:12 yeah, do you have that with Dr. Peacock? Do you have a meet fellow Dr. Peacockers? Yeah, so I've got a friend who's a vet who absolutely loves, that the problem is a lot of he's more on the like happy hardcore kind of side of it, but the problem is guy side, but yeah, but turned up the speed. The problem is a lot of the those kind of happy hardcore stuff on YouTube seems to have like Hentai as the thumbnails. And he says that he just plays it while he's in surgical theater. And sometimes like colleagues would be like, what have you got on there? He's like, oh, it's just the music. It's

Starting point is 01:10:51 not the... It's not Newdy anime. Right. This is one that all of us will do. I'm almost certain, but we haven't put it on the life hacks before, which is answer emails when you're waiting for something. So if you are sat waiting for food to be delivered outside of a restaurant or you've gone to the mechanics and your cars getting done, there's a number of different things that you could do. You could browse the internet, you could look on social media, but inevitably there's always a bunch of emails that you need to get through. Maybe you've got a bunch of different inboxes. Maybe you've got like a public bunch of emails that you need to get through. Maybe you've got a bunch of different inboxes. Maybe you've got like a public facing inbox that you need to you batch it once every couple of weeks or something like that.

Starting point is 01:11:32 And the beauty of using time where life thinks it's got you to actually get it. You're like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. You don't make me wait. You don't make me wait. I'm going to stop me waiting in real life when you're making me wait in this mechanics place at Quickfit. The old switcheroo.

Starting point is 01:11:53 I like it, exactly. And I just think, I just can't. This is actually a character. It's a image of Chris sat and Quickfit just going. Really smug. Really smugly really smugly, setting quick fit.

Starting point is 01:12:06 Mate, you were, excuse me mate, you're a, your car's finished and are you smoking? I'm hoping that the thought process has spoken out. You're like, ah, life. Oh, you're thinking about real life. What's today, my friend? My friend is going to be a 20 minute weird mate.

Starting point is 01:12:23 No problem, sir. Don't you worry, you good friend. Yeah, my friend. And my friend is going to be a 20 minute weird, mate. No problem, sir. Don't you worry, you good friend. Yeah, I am. Answer your emails when you wait for stuff. You can just take through them, slowly move through whatever it is. You can't do the complex ones that need opening up a Google doc and referring to stuff. And oh, can you send over the attachments for whatever. But the vast majority of emails aren't that.

Starting point is 01:12:44 The vast majority of emails are just you confirming that you've received an email from someone or what's your address, what's your email, whatever stuff it might be. And yeah, just chew through that, I've found. Because when you're waiting, there's an upper bound, I think, on how cognitively complex the things are that you can do.

Starting point is 01:13:02 I don't think that you would be able to, oh, I'll write the sales copy for my new thing, or I'll update my CV. Like, you're not going to be able to sink yourself into a deep state, yeah, precisely. But the vast majority of email work isn't deep. It's just shallow and frequent. So answer your emails when you wait and for sure. Have you ever said, I hope this email finds you well? I've said, hope you hope, I've said hope you hope you hope you hope you're well. Yeah, I've never said I have This email finds you well. That seems a bit I think that's one of the weirdest things to say but people do it all the time Like when it finds you well

Starting point is 01:13:38 That's it. Is it like is it when it finds you that you're well? Or is it? I hope it finds you on the internet and it locates you. Effectively. Yeah. Yeah. It's supposed to unwell. Hmm. I don't know. I wonder about people that use the term e-meat.

Starting point is 01:13:55 Yeah, definitely. I don't know what I think about them, but I think something about them. I haven't decided what I think about them, yeah. Nice to e-meat you. It's just, it needs a better word, doesn't it? Because the phrase itself is cringy, but I understand the sentiment, so it needs a cooler Sunday. The better one, the best one, the one that I always use is just great to connect. That seems to come from. It's a bit linked in. It's a bit linked in. It's very linked in outreach, isn't it? Why don't you think it?

Starting point is 01:14:21 that seems to come from. It's a bit linked in. Yeah, it's very, very linked in outreach, isn't it? Why don't you think it in? You'd love it on linked in there. Oh, God. So here's something that this is. There's a great connecrus. This is like using a, like using some racial slur

Starting point is 01:14:34 that you've never heard before. And it, well, no, no, no, that's what, that's what mom and dad used to call my favorite bear. You're gonna, you can't call it that. You can't call it that, yeah can't call it that. Exactly. Before you've been invited to a LinkedIn best selling author, speaking to you. Yeah. Just because of what you said. Most, most great to connect in 2021. Right. Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, what you got?

Starting point is 01:14:59 You're a hand. I can probably do one more. Why don't we do one more and then whatever you've watched on Netflix recently that's been best? Cool. So mine is instead of a process goal, have a mini-win goal. So I imagine everyone's probably heard the James Clear thing of like it's not an outcome goal, it's a process goal, and then you set a process goal and you try to do the process and you of like, it's not an outcome goal, it's a process goal, and then you set a process goal, and you try to do the process, and you get bored of it about 20 days in and stop doing the process. And I think like, I've been trying a lot to make the, just the things that I do easier and more enjoyable, simpler, and then just you can just forget about, because I think that's the best place to be, isn't it? Like when you're doing something, when something is the right

Starting point is 01:15:42 thing to do, and you do it without really thinking about it, and that's the best place to be in. So the stuff that I'm really consistent at, I'm consistent at it, because I'm always chasing a little, a little PB, like a little goal, which attaches to the process, but the process gets you there. But the thing that I pay attention to is like the, the mini win that maybe happens weekly or monthly or whatever. So like for training, it might be my like estimated one rat max or four propane, it might be the number of podcast downloads in a week or whatever it is.

Starting point is 01:16:11 Like it's not necessarily relevant. It's not the thing with the overall thing that you're chasing. But if you can just focus on the little things, it gives you that little dopamine kick of like, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is fun. This is a fun more of this. And in the meantime, you're just being really consistent with the stuff that would otherwise be quite boring if you just weren't looking at anything. So I largely, so I linked back to your question before, like, what am I aiming for in training? Like at the moment, nothing really, but the little, the little babies are enough to

Starting point is 01:16:39 to keep me coming back. So if you can, finding equivalence in stuff you're trying to be consistent with can be really helpful. I think that's cool. I think everybody intuitively does that, right? Even when you stop thinking about the main goal, you're always watching whatever the little attributes or metrics are that take you a long way to that. The stuff that you don't think about it in, I'll be the stuff that you're inconsistent at. I imagine. What is other than training in propane, have you got any other examples of, well, I guess weight loss would be one,

Starting point is 01:17:15 like you can just look at your average, average monthly weight loss on the way to losing 13 kilos from 106 to 93. It's, yeah, just hitting like a new, a new low weigh in. It doesn't really matter what that number is, but if it's the lowest, what do you hit? That's cool. That's enough to keep you consistent.

Starting point is 01:17:33 With meditating, I tried tracking. I think you and I both use the same approach to note the noting method, the shins and young approach. Just rather than thinking, like feel or hear or see, it's a number. So I just think like sensation note, it's that's one, two, three, and then just thinking, oh, like this week I hit a like a streak of that unbroken focus that I've not hit before. It's the same practice, but that compared to kind of just sitting and trying to like subjectively think, well, is it better or worse or is it working?

Starting point is 01:18:12 Just little ways to like, I think I'm very aware of the fact that I'm very focused on like hitting these little winds or PBs. I seem to be wired that way. You're a metrics-driven guy. Yeah. A chartered accountant, economics graduate, like it was inevitably going to be this way. Like hitting numbers, like it starts to prove that things moving the right direction. So if that's kind of the kick I get out of stuff and I can wire myself that way and in the background just be doing the things that are consistently good for me in five years time, then that's a win overall. So I find, have a mini win goal for stuff you're struggling with, rather than a, I'm going to meditate for 30 days, because at some point in the 30 days,

Starting point is 01:18:52 you'll get bored more than likely. But if you're trying to hit like little, little PBs, even if it's a streak goal, like that should, that helps you be consistent with the thing that you're probably struggling with. That's a really good one. I like that a lot. Seth, what you got? Again, I don't know if I've done this one before. And this is because my ticking off process has not been very good for the last life hacks. So I've got a lot of open boxes that may or may not have been mentioned. But this is about gift technique. So partly using the Apple ecosystem. So when you have a person in your life, put their birthday in their Apple contact card

Starting point is 01:19:36 and in the notes section, put lots of potential gift ideas. So I have two systems for this. One of them is a note on ever note that's just like general gift ideas that would be good for anyone that are generic, not specific to a certain person. And then if you have ones that are specific to a person, you put it in their Apple contact. That way you have a reminder, if you want to be extra good about it, you can set a reminder like a

Starting point is 01:20:02 week before the birthday or whatever. And then the next hack is to whenever you get a gift for someone's birthday or Christmas or whatever, double up, get another one too. If it's a generic gift just buy two of them and store it somewhere in case you caught out and you need to get some chocolates or whatever for someone or get the thing for their next event as well. So this is if you're big on birthdays and Christmas. Personally, I've not actually been very good at doing this in action, but I know that it would just solve a lot of stress. I don't actually like birthdays and Christmas as things. I think they are, it's like, if you don't get them a present, it's considered a social faux

Starting point is 01:20:46 part. But if you do get them a present, like there's a ceiling on how good it can be, whereas I think in prompt to just random presents are always going to be much better received and much more heartfelt. So there's an argument to say sack off birthdays and Christmas entirely and just get people random presents. Well, that's the way that slot machines work, right? There are variable schedule reward. That's precisely why it's addictive and why it feels good because you don't know when

Starting point is 01:21:15 it's going to come. Yeah. Well, yeah, and there's a social layer of it as well, which is like, if you don't create your girlfriend flowers on Valentine's Day or something, she might be a bit upset. But if you get her flowers on a random day, she'll be so much more pleased than she would be upset if you didn't. I think you keep on dating quite balanced girls. I think there is a subset of both men and women out there who would lose their shade if they didn't get a birthday present but received two random presents throughout the year. Interesting.

Starting point is 01:21:52 Okay. Right, my last one before we do a quick round of what we've watched on Netflix is Kings of the Wild, that's WYLD. So I got introduced to this book by a buddy called Jake who's big into fantasy. It's a fiction book. It's 350 400 pages long. It'll take you maybe a few weeks if you read for 15 minutes a night or 30 minutes a night It'll take you a few weeks to read. It's just very easy to go through super fast paced really compelling characters Everyone that I've given red rising to which I mentioned a few life hacks ago, got completely addicted, including your housemate. Chris, so I got him it on your recommendation, and he devoured it, and he ended up buying the next, like, four or whatever. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:22:36 So, I mean, what, what a, like, that's when you know you've hit a home run with a gift when the person goes and gets the subsequent gift. There's a subsequent gift one within the, yeah. when the person goes and gets the subsequent. So yeah, so red rising, if you missed that one on a life act, a couple of episodes ago, but kings of the wild, in short, in this new world, mercenary bands, at mercenary teams of people are treated like bands, like rock bands. So they go and do tours where they compete in arenas and kill monsters. They have groupies, they all have different types of weapons, like one will have a sword, but this,

Starting point is 01:23:12 the guy that's got the axe is obviously kind of the frontman with the guitar, the guy that's got the two, the double swords is obviously the drummer, and it's just a, it's super fast paced. There's a little bit, I would say that the character development's a tiny little bit shallow, but what you lose in terms of the depth of character development, you pick up because the story just doesn't stop. It just keeps on going. There's always, there's in a new place within no time at all, like, they'll need to get somewhere and then randomly,

Starting point is 01:23:39 there'll be a flying dragon or whatever they can attack and then they'll get there. So it's really good. It's an easy read and it's, I enjoyed it. So, red rising if you haven't got it already and kings of the wild if you need new book. Johnny, what have you watched recently? I need to go very soon, so this will have to be quick, if that's cool. But my, it's not on Netflix, it's on Sky Atlantic, or now TV, if you have now TV, but it's called you're going for some niche sources of media recently. It's just now TV. Now TV, Apple TV, Sky Atlantic, I mean, you,

Starting point is 01:24:17 I think we just, why? Between me and my girlfriend, we just have all of the available. Every membership. Instead of getting Sky, we just have, we pay like a third of the Sky subscription and have more of the available membership. Instead of getting sky, we just have, we pay like a third of the sky subscription, have more of the available TV. What have you watched, sir?

Starting point is 01:24:31 It's called Your Honor. It's directed by Brian Cranston of Breaking Bad fame. I know you suffer at least a bit of breaking bad. It's fantastic. So like the plot in summary is, he a judge, very well-known judge. His son basically runs over the son of a famous mob boss and the things that unravel as a result of that and it is brilliant. You couldn't wrap him up. Love TV shows where mental shit happens to normal people. Do I? What about not Fargo? What was the one?

Starting point is 01:25:13 Jacob's thingy. No, what was the thing with... Apologising to Jacob. Defending Jacob. No, the one with the guy who gets caught up doing accountants for drugs, drug runners. Oh, yeah, that's class. So my girlfriend has this theory that I like films and TV shows with powerful men in. And to be honest, it's the case. So like the so picky blinders, I think like every so that there is this theory

Starting point is 01:25:47 that the stuff that you like is the stuff that you want to see yourself as the character the main character is. So it's an accountant isn't always a financial advisor. Gus from Breaking Bad is like a very quantitative business man. They're all very, yeah, numbersy. Yeah. He's not numbersy and you're on. I watched the first episode. I walked into my house, went watching the first episode the other day. It's pretty good. I thought the first episode was actually a little bit slow, but I'm gonna guess it. Give it time Chris. Give it time. Sure thing. Seth, what have you watched recently? So, have you ever, like, just eating eating something and you put something on thinking that I'll just, like, whatever, I'll just put this on, like, and then you end up just falling through

Starting point is 01:26:29 all three seasons of it and you're like, ah, God, what have I done? That was the fall. I told you, this was on a life hack. Oh, why the God? I told you to watch this. Did you write this? Was it on your list? Yeah, so it's on the list.

Starting point is 01:26:42 Yeah, that's where it's come from. What I need to do is start attributing on the list like who recommended it? I want to try. I want the associated praise. Thank you. Yeah, so basically I watched it on Chris' recommendation without realizing. Yeah. Like it was like, I'll put something on, okay, someone said the fall. What do you think? It's that's back to the beginning, the ultimate life access, isn't it? Yeah, that's true. It comes for certain areas. Very good. It's for people that are listening, it's true. It's very good. It's for people that are listening, it's about a pervert.

Starting point is 01:27:09 Pervert. Pervert. Well, that's what we, it's because we've been just calling it part of it because I know it, I know an Egyptian doctor who was talking about something. He's like, this man is pervert. And so we've just been calling it pervert and actually forgot what the original word the show was. So yeah, it's about a pervert on his evolution of thought and action. Very interesting. I like the fact it's quite subversive. You don't know what's going to happen.

Starting point is 01:27:39 It kind of breaks a lot of the norms. That's why I've said it before, but line of duty of which the new season is currently airing. Line of duty does not, it gets a samurai sword out and kicks you in the balls. That's the way it works. There's a line of duty. I think probably the most similar. Yeah, there's a lot of like BBC tape. BBC drama, it's classic, isn't it? Like both of them are. Like Sunday night, 9 p.m. BBC drama, it's classic isn't it? Like both of them are, like Sunday night, 9pm, BBC drama. But you think like typically you'd have thought that would have just been what? Yeah, crap, like filmed on someone's VHS camera, the actors would have been awful. Right,

Starting point is 01:28:16 so I'm going to try and rattle off a couple. So three identical strangers is a documentary that to maybe about two hours long. You need to watch that. Unforgotten, have you seen this? Yeah, so unforgotten is a little bit like a slightly diluted down version of Line of Duty, but still that's a compliment. Have you seen the latest series? Yes. Very good, isn't it?

Starting point is 01:28:44 Yeah, yeah. It's in the ending of the latest series? Yes. Very good, isn't it? Yeah, the latest. It's in the ending of the later series. Yes. Yeah. I think that's all we need to say, isn't it? Yeah. So, three identical strangers, unforgotten, and I have got another one, and I can't remember,

Starting point is 01:28:59 it'll come back to me at some point in the future. You're on the fall, three identical strangers and done forgotten. I mean, that's enough to get anybody through. I watched the staircase. We are supposed to have this mental thing happening to normal people, isn't it? So the staircase is good because it just doesn't stop? Yeah, what an ordeal. It's the clip where he sat in the room and the lawyers like listing off how much it's gonna cost and he's just

Starting point is 01:29:26 Sat there was buses going like eyebrows are always up It's getting taken the cleaners It's like it is you're costing like 750 grand to defend himself I mean he defend himself over decades. So it's not it's not really that surprising You think with that program is if like if it's the case that she just fell down the stairs. Like for fuck he must just be like. What? It's ridiculous.

Starting point is 01:29:51 Actually, that to be fair, that's probably the biggest indication of his guilt that he's just not more indignant. But I would be so put out. Can you imagine if you have had to put up with a decade of paperwork? You're starving. You're just having a big, ridiculous, ridiculous, ridiculous, have you seen the state of my tick tick right now? Oh, I'm very upset about it, but that's not. Leave me alone. I am going to have to go. That's fine. Look'm just fine. Oh! I am gonna have to go.

Starting point is 01:30:26 That's fine. Look, gentlemen, thank you. We will do this again soon. Everybody that is listening, all the stuff that we've gone through will be linked in the show notes below. If you have any life hacks that you want to submit, if they're phenomenal,

Starting point is 01:30:36 then we might consider putting them on. I think over the entire career of life hacks, we've featured maybe two or three audience suggestions. So throw them in the comments below and see if you can get them done. But for now, it is propaintfitness.com slash modern wisdom for the seven things you won't believe about how to launch an online business. You won't believe what John is at number four. And then what's the one that are you still running the free webinar?

Starting point is 01:31:03 That is that. Well, yeah, just go to that one. It's all the same now. So beautiful. That's right. Guys, have a good weekend. I will catch you that run. See you. Peace. you

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