Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Alfie Brown, he's a comedian

and a podcaster. Adulting is hard. I'd hoped to discover that Alfie, a dad of three,

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. Today, I expect to learn why being a comedian doesn't mean that you can perform

effectively as a compare for a seven year old 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, your DIY skills improve and much more. I think with these conversations,

50% of me wants the answers. I want to know how to do it, how to grow up and finally

be able to put up shelves in the house. And then the other 50% of me is hoping not to

find out because that justifies my own uselessness by someone else who I see as being further

along the path than I am. They're incompetent justifies my incompetence. So yeah, this is

kind of like a gateway drug to placating your own sense of insufficiency as an adult

today. Enjoy. Something else that you should enjoy is the Modern Wisdom Reading List.

100 books you should read before you die. The most important, impactful and entertaining

that I've ever found. I always get asked for book recommendations. So I just did a big

big PDF that's got them all in with links and descriptions for why I like them. You

can get your copy right now for free by going to chriswillx.com slash books. That's chriswillx.com

slash books. Go there immediately. In other news, this episode is brought to you by the

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