Rabbit Hole: Yankee BJs, Fake Memories, & Japanese Tim Ferriss - #1105

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 148 minutes

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In the third edition of this new experimental episode format, we explore: - Mickey Mantle's most legendary story in Yankee Stadium. - If Tim Ferriss dreams in Japanese. - How the UK would rank as America's 51st state. - and much more… Guests: - Tim Ferriss is an entrepreneur, author, and podcaster. - Nirav Sanjani is an entrepreneur and tech founder. - George Mack is a writer, marketer and entrepreneur. Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: ⁠⁠https://chriswillx.com/deals⁠⁠ Get up to 20% off Timeline powered by Mitopure (now at a lower price) at https://timeline.com/modernwisdom Get a Free Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Get a free bottle of D3K2, an AG1 Welcome Kit, and more when you first subscribe at https://ag1.info/modernwisdom Get 15% off your first order of my favourite Non-Alcoholic Brew at https://athleticbrewing.com/modernwisdom Get ChatGPT to explore ideas, solve problems, and learn faster at ⁠https://chatgpt.com Timestamps: (0:00) Why Don’t American’s Use WhatsApp? (2:03) Growing Up on Long Island (3:08) Mickey Mantle’s Best Yankee Stadium Experience (5:42) Has “Literally” Lost Its Meaning? (8:02) Tim’s Japanese Crash Course (13:28) Which Nationality is Always Late? (15:15) How Vivid is Your Memory? (20:23) Why Forgetting is Actually Useful (31:28) How Easily Do We Invent Memories? (35:49) What Do Bachelors Actually Do at Night? (36:30) How Close Are We to Living in VR? (45:01) Can You Train a Photographic Memory? (50:17) How Mirrors Have Changed Human Behaviour (53:33) How Do We Find Meaning? (01:05:26) Are More People Turning to Religion? (01:14:03) Will AI Ever Become Conscious? (01:17:38) How Do We Define Meaning? (01:21:03) Are Dating Apps Dying? (01:24:01) Is DoorDash Removing Friction? (01:25:05) The Many Near-Deaths of Churchill (01:26:22) Does the US Struggle to Laugh at Itself? (01:34:46) Could Neuromodulation Cure Depression? (01:47:37) The Unexpected Side Effect of TMS Therapy (01:57:46) Could Vagus Nerve Stimulation Eradicate Migraines? (02:03:44) Are Mind-Reading Devices Coming Soon? (02:10:53) What Are Apple Going to Do Next? (02:14:33) Is AI Fuelling Looksmaxxing? (02:24:37) What’s Next For the Guys? Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: ⁠⁠https://chriswillx.com/books⁠⁠ Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: ⁠⁠https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom⁠⁠ Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: ⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠ #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠ #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: ⁠⁠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	British supremacy in messaging services. We need to try and get everybody to use WhatsApp.
0:05.4	The superior messaging system and Americans refuse to use it. Do you not think?
0:09.6	We was talking about this earlier as to why Americans don't use WhatsApp more.
0:14.5	One of the theories is that America had free SMS before anybody else.
0:20.6	So us Brits had to pay. How much did it used to be for a text back in the day? 15P maybe. 15P. 10P. 10P. That would ramp up very fast. But that was why people used to use Leetspeak, right? That was why you was there, like L.Y, because you were trying to snap everything to under 160 characters. Yeah. I once, when I was 14 years old, had my first ever girlfriend.
0:41.6	And we would text, and we would text, and we would text.
0:44.4	You fucking bankrupted yourself.
0:47.0	My dad's, honestly.
0:49.1	My dad comes down one day.
0:50.7	And you know when you have like A4 that you'd stack in a printer?
0:53.3	He just drops that. So it's on the phone bill and I'd racked up about 800 pounds. So itemized bill. So I then sent her. That's a lot of sexting at 14. I then sent her one final text, which was can't do text anymore. Let's do calls. So we did calls all the time. Next month. So I had to pay about 1,200, 1,300 pounds of debt to my father. Still payment it off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, payment plant. Dad, you're cock blocking me. So that's how, I'm 14. I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get my cred up. But yeah, I just WhatsApp's the... Tim uses WhatsApp. Tim's good on WhatsApp.
1:27.9	I mean, look, I use every new inbox that is slowly eroding the sanity of everybody who's
1:32.3	listening to us. Do you guys see the Nikita Beard tweet a long time ago? It feels like,
1:38.5	he said something like, every time I use WhatsApp, it feels like I landed in a third world country.
1:44.4	You're allowed to say that. Okay, world country. You're allowed to say that.
1:46.0	Okay, fair enough.
1:46.6	You're allowed to say that.
1:47.6	No, I'm really, I grew up on Long Island. I think I'm allowed to say it too. Re-weight race-swapped Sean for you. Fair enough. That's the primary reason. I think I'm sitting in the same spot too. That's correct. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pickle like, Sean, lost weight and the beans gone.
1:59.8	This is the designated seat for the minority.
2:02.9	You grew up on Long Island.
2:04.6	Mm-hmm. People like, Sean, lost weight and the beards gone. This is the designated seat for the minority.
2:17.9	You grew up on Long Island. I didn't know that. Where? Oh, yeah. Way out by Montauk. Back when there were potato farms. That explains a lot. That has changed. Now they're nightclubs that make all the locals crazy. But yes. So does that be on the Hamptons? Yeah, Montauk is the end of the line.
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