#395 - Alfie Brown - Not Sucking At Fatherhood, DIY & Halloween
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Alfie Brown is a comedian and a podcaster.
Adulting is hard. I had hoped to discover that Alfie, a dad of 3, would have worked out how to do it properly. But alas, no, it seems we are both condemned to flail around in the liminal purgatory of "just about getting by" for at least another few years.
Expect to learn why being a comedian doesn't mean that you can perform effectively as a compere for a 7 year old's birthday party, what it's like entering the world of fitness at 34, why my obsession with candles was cut short, at what point after becoming a father that your DIY skills improve and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Alfie Brown, he's a comedian |
| 0:05.6 | and a podcaster. Adulting is hard. I'd hoped to discover that Alfie, a dad of three, |
| 0:11.9 | would have worked out how to do it properly, but alas, no. It seems we are both condemned |
| 0:16.2 | to flail around in the liminal purgatory of just about getting by for at least another |
| 0:22.4 | few years. Today, I expect to learn why being a comedian doesn't mean that you can perform |
| 0:27.2 | effectively as a compare for a seven year old birthday party. What it's like entering |
| 0:31.8 | the world of fitness at 34, why my obsession with candles was cut short, at what point |
| 0:37.1 | after becoming a father, your DIY skills improve and much more. I think with these conversations, |
| 0:44.4 | 50% of me wants the answers. I want to know how to do it, how to grow up and finally |
| 0:52.1 | be able to put up shelves in the house. And then the other 50% of me is hoping not to |
| 0:56.6 | find out because that justifies my own uselessness by someone else who I see as being further |
| 1:02.4 | along the path than I am. They're incompetent justifies my incompetence. So yeah, this is |
| 1:09.9 | kind of like a gateway drug to placating your own sense of insufficiency as an adult |
| 1:17.0 | today. Enjoy. Something else that you should enjoy is the Modern Wisdom Reading List. |
| 1:22.6 | 100 books you should read before you die. The most important, impactful and entertaining |
| 1:27.9 | that I've ever found. I always get asked for book recommendations. So I just did a big |
| 1:31.1 | big PDF that's got them all in with links and descriptions for why I like them. You |
| 1:35.0 | can get your copy right now for free by going to chriswillx.com slash books. That's chriswillx.com |
| 1:43.2 | slash books. Go there immediately. In other news, this episode is brought to you by the |
| 1:50.2 | six minute diary. I've been using the six minute diary for four years, four and a bit |
| 1:56.0 | years. If you are not practicing formal gratitude, but you've wanted to get into it, this is |
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