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Chapter 1: What is the significance of hitting 3.25 million subscribers?
Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. It is a 3.25 million subscriber Q&A episode. You ask questions, I try and answer them and not do a Nazi salute. Let's see how we get on. Actually, before we get on, a lot of questions about books, book suggestions, Red Rising, which is this fiction series I've addicted everybody to and is amazing. I
Chapter 2: What are my favorite book recommendations?
There are a hundred books, a list of my favorite hundred that I've ever read that you can get completely for free at chriswillx.com slash books. If you need new suggestions for fiction and nonfiction and real life stories, and there's descriptions about why I liked them and there's links, you can just go and buy them from Amazon or whatever. And it's awesome.
And like a quarter of a million people have got it and you can too. And it's free. You can go and get it now. There'll be a button somewhere or chriswillx.com slash books. So go and upgrade your brain. with that. All right, let's get into it. Dude, it's Danny. What happens to the music intro? It always hyped me up. Good question.
So we switched on audio from audio only to video on Spotify, but that means that we can't have a spoken intro with the music because there's no video to go along with that. So we got rid of the Blame Spotify for enabling video. Lots of people wanted video on Spotify and every new episode is now available in video. Plus the entire back catalog of 900 episodes is currently being uploaded.
But the sacrifice we've had to make is you've lost me chatting shit for the first 90 seconds and the music. So I don't know, maybe it'll come back at some point in future as like a special Hall of Fame thing. But yeah, for now it's gone and we just get straight into it like we do on YouTube.
greaves josh did you find some of the finn versus the internet stuff a bit close to the bone dude i loved it i that guy is going to be so massive for the people who haven't seen this i did it's kind of like a roast i guess it's like a friendly collaborative roast in a way uh with a british comedian called finn taylor and that's available on his channel you can go and see um
I love what he... I'm a huge fan of that show, and I have been for seasons and seasons. George Mack first introduced me to him. I think he's great, and I really enjoyed it. I didn't find any of it too close to the bone. I mean, it's either true, in which case you've got nothing to... You can't push back, or it's so exaggerated that it's not true, in which case you don't need to worry about it.
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Chapter 3: How should I approach marriage and dating questions?
So, yeah, they're great. The team's fantastic. It does feel a little bit like... I know, like you're in a school classroom with a bunch of naughty kids at the back that are just throwing insults at him to throw at you. That's pretty funny because all of the producers are in there as well, but process was great. And he's going to be massive.
I'm very confident that it'll be like, he's going to be so, so huge. So like the British charming, nicer version of Tony Hinchcliffe, maybe. But yeah, I loved it. Maxime 66. What are two important questions you would ask a woman on a first date to see if you are compatible? That's a good question. what does a happy life look like to you? I think is probably pretty important.
Uh, and when would you want to have kids? Um, I think both of those help to ensure that you're both moving in the right direction, but what you want to basically avoid on a first date, and this may be moving too quickly, two important questions. She might run away, but it depends how serious you are, right? This is, this is what I would ask. Um,
But if you're serious and if this is you looking for a life partner, you want to make sure that you're both pointed in the same direction. So if a good life to her looks like regularly going on holiday and never really having to be around the house and not really building a home, but you want to be a homebody and you can't wait to make a family, that's not going to work.
And the same is true vice versa. If you want to just be this sort of
dgen world traveler having tons of fun parties and and stuff until your 50s and she wants to be the four golden retrievers and five kids person that's not going to work and then i think the second big question is when what sort of a timeline are you wanting to make the next big milestone on you can't really ask when do you want to get married but you can most people have got an idea about when they want to have kids and by asking when you also get to ask the question of do you so it's kind of a
It's a little cheap. So way too intense, way too over the top, probably going to scare loads of women off. But you said what are the two most important, not the two most likable. So there we go. Lizzy Low 31. I'm a female and avid listener for the last six months. Curious how many women subscribe. So it's about... 30% of the audience is female on audio. On YouTube, it's less. It's about 15%.
But YouTube skews super male in any case. Interestingly, when you look at the live shows that we did in Australia and in the UK and the ones that we did last year in America... It's nearly 50-50. It's 55-45.
Now, can't work out how many of those are girlfriends that have been dragged along by the boyfriends, but you also can't work out how many are girlfriends that have dragged their boyfriends along. And I'm going to fight the corner for that. So it's a lot. And for all of the...
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Chapter 4: What lessons have I learned from Chris Bumstead?
Ton of gut dysbiosis, candida, H. pylori, SIBO, roundworm and liver fluke from fucking Africa, maybe. I don't know. Tinnitus, memory loss, mood dysregulation, sleep. I'm falling asleep at 8 o'clock at night, 8.30 at night, every single evening. And it's like the most...
salient part of my entire life the reason that i don't talk about it that much on the show apart from right now is it's a bit of a buzzkill this isn't fun you guys come here i don't know maybe you come here to find out about me but presumably you come here for interesting conversations and a good vibe and a good hang and i don't know i think i get worried about ruining that uh or not
Not being a professional. Being a professional is sucking it up and doing what needs to be done in any case. And I'm proud that I managed to do that over the last year because it's not been superbly easy. And it's meant that I've had to dial back a lot of workload, spend a ton more time and effort and money and... thought cycles trying to fix it. But yeah, that's it.
In terms of how I tackled it, the same way that everybody else will have done with binders and cholestyramine and phosphatidylcholine and glutathione and red light therapy and saunas and ozone and high-dose vitamin C, IVs, and a ton of other stuff.
And I will detail the whole protocol of everything that I did, but to be honest, because I'm still balls deep in it, maybe the worst I've ever been from a health perspective, at least a felt health perspective, even though we fixed a lot of those problems, I'm hesitant to go, and this is what I did, because I also would go, this is what I did, and it's still an issue. So... I don't know, man.
I'm sorry if it's felt like I've opened the door and then abandoned everybody, but that's not because I'm off dancing in the moonlight having a great time. It's because I'm still down in the trenches trying to fix it. So that's the update on my health. I hope that's useful. I'll have more stuff soon. We've tracked a lot of it with Max, the videographer. So there will be, I guess, a... Thank you.
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Chapter 5: How do I deal with health issues?
Chapter 6: What strategies help maintain positivity and optimism?
So we'll probably release at least one new flavor, uh, on the cans. And then that would mean that we could do a four pack, one of each four flavors variety pack by the end of the year. And I think that'd be awesome. Um, The peach mango and the mixed berry on the focus blend, the stick packs, great, awesome flavors. We've got one more flavor that we might release with that.
And then brain capsules are just money. And I just keep on using those. So yeah, between those, keep growing, get more people on board. We've got subscriptions now. You can get discounts. We've got cool welcome gifts and stuff coming. So just do that and keep making cool marketing because I love the marketing for it.
uh an inside story when will you have someone on to talk about non-violent communication i believe you said it's the best example of the worst branding i don't remember saying that but i agree with me non-violent communication is terribly branded uh because the what was implied is that all other communication is violent which may be true i mean who knows but uh
I probably need to learn a little bit more about it. I got sent, I've been doing like a really deep dive into relationship dynamics recently. So Stan Tatkin's Your Brain on Love, or This Is Your Brain on Love. Fucking awesome. And then from that, I got Conscious Loving suggested to me.
And I think that Conscious Loving is half a step away from nonviolent communication, or at least nonviolent communications included in that. So I need to do quite a bit of research alongside all the reading to do for the show. That's like,
more more more more on top but i'll get there and uh i feel like non-violent communication is kind of like the cbt of the relationship world it's quite evidence-based at least from what i can tell evidence-based very well regarded people are impressed with it but just fucking awful brand and i haven't got around to it yet so hold on tight Oliver Norgrove.
Chris, how, if at all, has your personal money management improved over the years? I think the only thing that I've been particularly good at when it comes to money management is I don't have a big... I don't have extravagant spending habits. I'm not a particularly showy person.
I like nice things, but you know, I'm talking about nice things like a new pair of trainers or a nice car, but not an insane car or, you know,
a coffee where i don't have to look at the the price tag i don't tend to have particularly expensive tastes uh and i guess the other side has been even if investing like managing money as in putting in places and moving it around and etfs and all this stuff even if that hasn't been super dialed uh i've just worked sufficiently hard to accumulate money and um I don't know.
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