600k Q&A - Masculinity Crisis, Overrated Thinkers & Lex Fridman - #574

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

I hit 600k Subscribers on YouTube!! To celebrate, I asked for questions from YouTube, Twitter, Locals and Instagram, so here's another 90 minutes of me trying to answer as many as possible. As always there's some great questions in here about whether Lex Fridman is coming on the podcast, who the most overrated thinker is and my plans for 2023. Expect to learn what my thoughts are on masculinity being in a crisis, my best advice for men in their 20's, whether it's possible to have a well meaning conversation about the Left without calling everyone woke, where I buy my t-shirts from, who I want to bring on the show in 2023, my biggest tips for starting a YouTube channel, why it's a good thing that Newton didn't have Twitter and much more... Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:02) Chris’s Spotify Listenership (02:03) Returning to College Later in Life (03:05) Changing Opinion on Birth Control (04:56) Recommended Books (05:20) Micro-dosing Mushrooms in Vegas (06:12) ‘Does Bruno Mars Is Gay?’ (06:24) Writing a Book (08:26) Hitting 600K Subs (09:41) Back Troubles (10:47) January Special Guest (12:24) Chris’s Uni Accommodation (13:02) Foregoing Relationships for Self-Improvement (15:00) Who in Self-Help is Overrated? (15:58) 2 Million Subscribers? (16:29) Chris’s Relationship with Alcohol (18:03) Are We in a Masculinity Crisis? (22:00) Why Chris Cut His Afro (22:59) Obsession with Evolutionary Psychology (25:11) Advice for a Party-Hard Guy (27:58) Spaghetti Fingers or Lasagne Feet? (28:59) Sam Harris (29:57) Stupid Guests (31:00) Would Chris Be Successful if He Was Ugly? (33:55) A Dream Guest for 2023 (35:56) F***, Marry, Kill: Rogan, Schulz, Peterson (37:00) Justin Timberlake Hair (37:15) Influence of Andrew Huberman (38:36) Abstaining from Alcohol (38:52) Is Athletic Greens Worth the Hype? (39:25) How Careful is Chris About Guest Selection? (41:54) Most Under-appreciated Modern Thinker (42:53) How to Find Good Friends (45:29) Chris’s Involvement in the Nightclub Business (46:36) Will Chris Host Rogan? (47:00) Greatest Achievement (48:14) Tips for Starting a Channel (50:47) Difference Between the Radical & Sensible Left (53:57) Origin of Bro Science (55:15) Being Surrounded by Negative People (56:20) Do You Need a Platform to Start a Podcast? (58:25) Is Chris Still Hungry? (1:00:41) Marriage & Children (1:01:30) Continuing to Find New Content (1:03:08) Popularity of Dating Shows (1:05:11) Matthew Walker (1:06:11) Was Jocko Difficult to Deal With? (1:07:33) Favourite Evolutionary Psychology Books (1:08:15) Is it Safe to Workout Commando? (1:08:24) Avoiding YouTube Censorship (1:09:12) Chris’s Background Lights (1:09:39) Number 1 Life Hack (1:09:53) Best Advice for Guys in Their 20’s (1:10:22) Adapting YouTube Styles for 2023 (1:11:43) Having Direct Conversations in the Manosphere (1:13:09) Avoiding Controversy (1:14:14) Collaborating with Lex Fridman (1:14:48) Does Chris Meditate? (1:15:34) Where Does Chris Buy His T-Shirts? (1:16:08) Becoming a Better Mother (1:16:33) How to Settle Down Young (1:17:35) Favourite UK City (1:17:40) Is Chris on TRT? (1:17:49) Opinion on Andrew Tate (1:18:02) Trimming Pubes (1:18:18) What Chris Thinks of WEF & Jews (1:18:47) Did Historical Figures Benefit from Not Having the Internet? (1:19:41) Seeking Progression (1:20:50) What Trait Should Bring a Higher Status? (1:21:56) End of Year Review (1:22:36) Michael Malice Extra Stuff: Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ - Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is me.
0:05.5	I hit 600,000 subscribers on YouTube and as usual to celebrate I asked for questions
0:11.2	from YouTube community, Twitter, locals and Instagram so here is another 90 minutes of me trying
0:16.8	to answer as many as possible. There are some phenomenal questions as always about whether
0:21.9	Lex Friedenon is coming on the podcast, who the most overrated thinker out there is
0:26.2	and my plans for 2023. Expect to learn what my thoughts are on masculinity being in crisis.
0:32.3	My best advice for men in their 20s, whether it's possible to have a well-meaning conversation
0:36.9	about the left without calling everybody woke, where I buy my t-shirts from,
0:40.8	who I want to bring on the show in 2023, my biggest tips for starting a YouTube channel,
0:45.3	why it's a good thing that Newton didn't have Twitter and much more.
0:51.0	You should have seen this already, but the big episode, the big episode I've been talking about
0:54.7	for ages and ages, the one that I've been building up to for most of six months last year and we
0:59.0	flew all the way out to Las Vegas, was David Goggins, the hardest man on the planet.
1:05.9	I managed to catch up with him in Vegas. We sat down for two hours in a custom built studio inside
1:12.3	of a soundstage with six case cinema cameras and a Hayes machine and custom lighting and a
1:19.0	purpose built backdrop and it's beautiful and it's going to go live one week today.
1:23.5	So thank you to everyone that supported this little announcement and has got excited along with me.
1:28.9	It is easily the biggest project that we've done on the show and I really wanted to push the
1:33.2	limits of what was possible visually without detracting away from the conversation. So yes, get ready
1:39.8	for an exclusive two hour conversation with David Goggins going live next Monday everywhere.
1:46.9	So make sure that you hit subscribe or you'll miss it. In other news this episode is brought to you
1:53.7	by Jim Shark. If you need new Jim kit, this is the only place to go. I'm absolutely in love with
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