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I wanted to show you what this is going to look like. So, it's going to look uh dreamy. It's referred to in the industry as dreamy. >> Dreamy. >> That's referred to as dreamy. Oh, it's a great setup. What's happening people? It is nearly the new year and I have no idea what happened to 2025. I don't know where it went. However, I did have a camera with me for most of it, which is great. And that means that this can be the best of vlog from 2025. Some sentimental moments, some funny points, some behind the scenes, some clips that you definitely haven't seen before. And uh I just wanted to say thank you if you watch the vlogs because this is a very different side for me. It's much more personal. It's much more stripped back. It's way more emotional as well. It kind of feels like this is the Bruce Wayne to my Batman or something. And um it's really personal to me. I I started doing this a couple of years ago and I'm really glad that I did. So thank you for tuning in and watching and I really hope that you enjoy my favorite clips from the last 12 months. Love you all. >> Nobody's close to Nobody here. Do you want to get a shot? >> If you'd like to just introduce yourself, put a name to that that pretty face. >> My name is Chris Williamson and I'm the host of Monomous and Buckets. >> Tonight on Modern Wisdom, Chris is quoting Socrates to a weightlifter who doesn't realize Greece is a country. >> And you've spoken before about how you found school difficult. >> One, three. while we're near it. Uh, you know, when you got the mic out, you could say, "Oh, my mic's gone as well." And pull your pants. You do it. >> Don't you miss it, man? Men, my words. Those are the days. Look at these. None of this gym [ __ ] They'd harmonize and go over and hit their wives. >> Here we go. Come on. Well done. Bye, girls. Good. >> Your hip thrust performances inspired me to do better in my own life. >> It was legendary hard. So, he's actually on a plane flying over here right now for business meetings and he's watching the game on a plane and I would hate to sit next to him. >> Boom. Oh, that's nasty. For everybody that's asked what my direct forearm routine is, I've never trained. Yesterday was the first time I've ever directly trained forearms. Today's the second time. >> So, because this is totally operated just by codes, there's just nobody on site that's running this gym. >> I'm training in a big way in front of me. >> Oh, here we go. London. Dude, hell yeah. >> Zach, >> what is that? The most hardcore [ __ ] you've ever seen in your life. That's what that is. >> Well, give it a try. >> Yeah, of course. >> Oh, wow. That's >> [ __ ] hell. >> Help him put Help him put it back together. >> Okay. Okay. >> Help him put it back. I don't know how to do it. Oh, this is beautiful. >> I'm comfortable. >> This is fantastic. >> Surreal. So surreal. Really surreal. I'm trying to make it less surreal. I'm trying to make it more This is happening. Not going to be on my deathbed. Knowing I'll be buried in regret. Thinking about the things I never did while I'm taking my last breath. Go ahead and welcome to the stage Chris Williamson. No, >> no. >> Oh, false start. Not even [ __ ] punked right now. Is this Ashley Ker? I can see the franticness over the far side. This is great. I could just sing to myself. This I sound fantastic on stage. What can I tell you about? I can tell you about how bad. I mean, you can hear a little bit, right? This is like the weirdest game in musical statue. Hey, put it back on. Two. Two. Hey. Hey. Hey. 1 2 3 4. Kyle, are you happy? I can't see if you're nodding. It's very dark at the back. You can hear me. Let's [ __ ] go. All right. If you had told me at 30 years old, living in the northeast of the UK, doing this in my bedroom, that I would be stood here sold out in the town hall in Manhattan on a Thursday night, I would have not believed you. For one more time, please welcome back to the stage, this is Zach Talander. >> Kyle has to reset the board. >> To reset the board? Yeah, you I mean it was a little bit tough during the show. >> This This isn't going to be good enough for you. >> No, no, we're just waiting. I'm just waiting. >> We're just waiting. >> Yeah. >> Oh, brilliant. Everyone's got their phones out. >> I did the Q&A ac cappella, so acoustic is not >> No, I think I think it's going to work. You just need a little bit of >> I think it's going to work right there. >> Dude, you're crushing, man. Thank you. But it's such It's been such a cool cuz I've watched it for like a lot of years. I just feel like you you there was nothing um it wasn't really entertainment. It was like food and it was like I like watched you to get food if I wanted to get like knowledge about something or whatever. So just to see how far you've taken it isn't me. >> A dude I appreciate the [ __ ] >> No, I really mean that. I really do. >> Thank you. [ __ ] town hall last night. >> Mhm. >> Halfway through the set. >> Yep. >> But almost exactly halfway through. So 45 minutes in [ __ ] rolling nice. just about to talk about um like one of my favorite ideas and uh all the sound goes in the entire room except for my onstage wedges. I'm like one two everyone's like making a little bit of noise. It was funny. I'd made a joke about uh Zoran Mandani earlier on and I was like, "Oh, Zoran's come to reclaim his [ __ ] energy bills for me." And um I was I just basically did like 5 minutes with just stage wedges pointing at me hoping that they would fill the room >> while they were like and I can see my dude at the back like [ __ ] and it's his first time as our TM. >> I bet you the crowd like loves that [ __ ] though. when you get it was probably the best the biggest laughs of the night, the biggest applause breaks of the night because >> they go home and they say, you know, his mic went out and he was it was great. >> All right. Should we run this thing? >> It's rolling. >> All right. Bye. >> Bye. >> Love you. I can give you all >> the staples of creative genius >> were because of the constraints of what it was. >> I don't know if pop music's formulaic. I think the world is searching for a lot of the same thing. >> Oh man, I look the reason that I keep laughing we >> all that from you said is pop music formula formula. Yeah. You're the best sort of guest dude. I flick you once and you're a [ __ ] infinite content, infinite [ __ ] perpetual motion machine that just ticks away, ticks away, ticks away, >> my man. >> Thank you so much. >> This week, I found out I'm the eighth biggest podcast in the world. >> Saying that sentence is not getting any more familiar. It's not getting any less surreal. It's brilliant. It's very cool. I I realized that there hasn't been a single bedroom of a hotel or Airbnb or house that I have stayed in or rented or owned for the last decade that I haven't recorded a podcast in. Like I've fully fully bootstrapped this thing and done it in Guatemala and Australia and with a broken heart and a snapped Achilles and when I'm tired and when I'm hung over when I'm fired up. Done it in front of a video wall, the biggest video wall in Texas. And I've done it on a single iPhone in my old office in Newcastle upon time. And it's really cool. It's mad to watch your own journey be tracked over time. It's really cool that I've I recorded it all because I'd have forgotten so much if I didn't. And uh it really means a lot. It really really really really means a lot. Especially after having such a [ __ ] rough year, dude. Like being feeling so inferior for most of the year and like I wasn't progressing or holding it together or something. And then yeah, it that's I think that's why it feels so surreal that it really does go to show that you can have no self-esteem and show up and win anyway. You can think that you're just eating [ __ ] over and over and it and stuff still go well. And who knew that uh suffering is not proportional to success? I guess that's a lesson I'm learning. So I it it's it's awesome. It's going to take a long time for that to absorb into me to work out what that means. Even if it means anything, maybe it doesn't mean anything. I don't know. But um it's certainly very gratifying. You know, it's taken 8 years, 150,100 episodes, whatever it is to um feel like I've arrived. Maybe I've arrived now. There's this idea from Mark Manson uh identity lagged reality by one to two years. the where you are and where you see yourself doesn't there's a a lag period doesn't track in time. You could call it identity dysmorphia. You look in the mirror and you don't see who you really are. You see who you see yourself as. This is kind of the same. So, uh yeah, maybe in one to two years or so I'll be like, "Oh, I'm the eighth biggest podcast in the world." Um, it's cool. It's cool. I'm trying to let it sink in. Trying to let it sink in. >> You will be numb. >> So, you not going to feel when I put in the the camera. Okay. Feel some pulling. That's all. If you feel any pain, let me know so I can put something else. >> Okay. >> And that's all. >> But I'm going to be under sedation for this too, right? >> I'm going to give you some tequila shot so you relax, calm when I do the process. >> Okay. Okay. >> Yeah. I'm a little nervous. But >> why? >> I don't know. It's scary. >> Can you sign here? >> Can I give you something? Okay. >> Report to what? What? >> That's your shot of tequilas. The tequila shot. Real magical tequila. >> I don't think that was tequila. >> Tasted like banana. It's Mexican tequila. Hey guys, this a [ __ ] medical procedure up there. I don't need Don't need your [ __ ] nationalist [ __ ] fancy dress cultural appropriation going on. Come in and tell me, "Oh, we got a taco for your neck and we're going to [ __ ] yourself." Okay, it's a serious deal. >> Look, sometimes we need Mutronic and at other times you need the taste of America. It's like the [ __ ] eagle coming overhead. >> What's up? >> Oh, what's up, Chris? So, I have a question for you. You know everything. You're an amazing podcast host. >> Thank you. >> Just not with me, apparently, cuz the comments roasted me. Um, okay. I have hair loss, like really bad. How do I fix that? Shedding. Like, it's not like I don't have like a receding hairline, but like my hair like like maybe 200 to 300 strands fall out every day. I swear to God, I'm going >> I think I mean, look, >> it's been happening for like a year. I've done blood work. >> I just don't know what to do. I got to say, if you're talking about hair loss, you are talking to the wrong guy. >> Wow, you got great hair. >> Precisely. Like, so I don't need to study hair loss, right? James Smith. Where's James Smith? Cuz he's not He has no hair at all. Chris Bumstead. Ask him. He'll know. >> Ryan Terry. Ryan Terry's hairline is [ __ ] >> dissing these guys. >> You get into your 30s and guys are obsessed with their hairline. >> Well, yeah. Especially if you're taking steroids. >> Yeah. >> Greg. >> Um Panda of Greg. >> Uh, Greg Ducet called me not natty because of my forearms. So, I think I'm natural from the forearm up >> and and hands from the forearms. >> Enhance from the forearm. >> Crazy forearms. >> Are they both crazy? >> They are. >> Been growing into them since I was 16. >> Hm. This is suspicious. Are you on the run at True Tide B? Uh, >> I'd be way leaner if I was on GLPs. Are you? >> No. >> Would you? >> No. I like eating. I enjoy eating. >> I don't want to not eat. >> So, your question was, "How do I stop my female hair loss at 20 [ __ ] 5 years old or whatever you 24 years old?" >> Not my area of expertise. >> It's not babies. >> You're not. >> What's the stuff that makes your sperm count go down? >> Well, I don't have to worry about sperm count, thankfully. >> That's what you think. Well, I mean, the internet with its gay accusations, I don't have to worry about sperm count. >> No, I mean Oh, I see what you're saying. Like I'm saying I personally don't produce sperm. >> Look, if you want to disprove the internet's accusations about you. >> You really need to up your game. Grip strength needs to be better. Sperm count needs to be higher. >> No, I think they know. They know that I'm straight and that I like men. >> As we said yesterday, that's exactly the cover story that someone who doesn't like men would >> like get married and I feed post it. They're gonna be like, "Oh, we knew that you were straight all along, Sarah." Oh, >> I always love the comments on a feed post of a chick that's been public for a while. It's like a it's over, boys. >> Yeah, true. >> The blast radius of sadness. Remember when Brett Cooper got married and posted about it online? Every single right-wing bro was like, "It's over, guys. Game over. She's been locked up." Unbelievable. >> They're like bunch of unfollows. >> Almost certainly you're going to lose followers if you get married. How's that feel? It's fine cuz I'll have other priorities then >> in your sick pad. >> Yeah. >> With your sick cat. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> That's what I want. I That's the whole point of everything is to get married and have family. >> See that also actually that's >> what >> All right. Bye. >> I like to I like to greet my guests with my top off just to assert dominance. whenever I can or arousal. Induce arousal or assert dominance. I just want to I just want to throw >> Yeah, that's fine. >> I want to throw peers off. That's my plan. That's the That's the reason I'm here. >> See you, too. >> Uh, welcome to our torture chamber. >> Wanted to show you what this is going to look like. So, it's going to look uh dreamy. It's referred to in the industry as dreamy. >> Dreamy. >> That's referred to as dreamy. It's a great setup. >> The reason to win the game is to be free of it. So you you play the games, you win the games, and then you get hopefully get bored of the games. And then you become free of the game uh in a sense that you're no longer trying to win it. You know you can win it and either you move to a different game or you play the game for the sheer joy of it. We don't spend enough time thinking about the big questions. But I think the big questions are the big questions for good reasons. >> So uh you know my screen has been asking out to be forever and I just kept saying no don't no don't no don't no don't no don't no don't no don't no don't no don't no don't no don't no don't every time then people reached out asking I was like no I'm going to do this they're going to be pissed. >> Sorry boys seat bel took the glasses off. I was hoping you gonna keep them on. >> You want me to keep them on? >> You can pull them off. >> Let me throw them on. Some dudes can't pull off douchy glasses. >> You think he's douchy? >> A little bit if I didn't know you, but I know you. You're not douchy at all. So, you can wear cool glasses. >> Well, these are requests by you, so I can wear what I want. >> Always great to talk to you, brother. Really appreciate your insight. >> I appreciate you, too, man. >> Thanks for having the courage to put all your thoughts out there and I love what you do. >> Okay. Roughly, what we're going to do first, we're going to do unflavored base testing. So, this is Newton without any flavoring at all. I just thought it' be interesting to try cuz it it doesn't taste bad, right? That's a sentence that you're going to hear a lot of today. >> Yeah, I actually like that. >> That's quite nice. >> Yeah, that's quite nice. I'm going to keep this and you're going to see this grow into one of those snakes that people have at baseball games. >> I feel great right now. >> We have water as well. You guys have water. We got water. >> See here? >> Trying to work out colors. >> They're just backwards. So here it's like >> there would have to be about 56 g permission. >> Is that something they might change the same? I would say I really per color of this is quite nice. >> Two coffees this morning. >> My ears are ringing. >> My mind's playing tricks on me. >> My eyeballs are itching. >> So Chris, I uh noticed your arms were pretty hairy. Okay. >> Could you? >> But I have to tell you, my friend, that you may be familiar with the fact that there are levels to this hair gang. >> I'll just [ __ ] sit here and look [ __ ] jacked. To answer all of your questions, no, I'm not human. Yes, anabolic steroids were involved in the construction of this hair. I am hairier than my father. I'm half as hairy as my grandfather who is immune to mosquitoes because they would get caught in his hair on the way in and never make it. That is not a joke. Lineage. Destiny. Family. Vin Diesel [ __ ] Family. But like with mosquitoes. >> We could just >> Why? Why? Oh, no. No. I got it. Chris, I'll play this out for you. Oh my god. Ever since like you lost your [ __ ] weird arm hair and like you have like hair on your head. I just kind of want to like I don't know. [ __ ] you. I need that like a [ __ ] broken leg. [ __ ] out of my face, Nancy. Let's go. Lift. >> That's a little low. You going to be taller than me sitting down? Stand next to me. >> Standing. Sitting. >> I got I got miniature docks and legs. So, yeah. >> How did I never realize Yeah. Beautiful. Touch all the way to the bottom if you can. Round your whole back forward. Shoulders forward. Yes. That last inch is a big deal. Shut the [ __ ] up. The video guy's laughing. You guys got a damn third grade in here. >> Good to see you, man. >> You, too, man. >> How are you? >> Good. A little bit tired, but ready to rock. Well, how can you be tired when you flex so hard about the expensive class of plane that you were flying in? >> It's got to be done. >> I didn't think that the outfit could get actually tighter. >> I was thinking of wearing a stringer today, but I thought I'd be a little bit too cheeky. >> I'm just saying. >> Then David Stoker used to think that that line was about me. Have you noticed as the fame has risen, the channel has grown, female interest has also increased. >> Uh yes. Yes. Um like probably better quality women. >> Well, yeah, that's true. But it's like a very specific Especially for me, I'm attracting a very specific niche of women, right? It's like, if you're ready to listen to me waffle on in bed, what's the pillow talk going to be about? >> Come on. >> You [ __ ] Be careful what you wish for, ladies. Get into a relationship with a podcaster. It's like, "Hey, we finished having sex 3 hours ago. Shut the [ __ ] up. I want to go to sleep." >> Tell you what, you know who is good to train with? Mike Thirsten. >> He is good to train with. I mean, he's super knowledgeable, but >> apart from making me feel like a skinny tailed [ __ ] >> but to make me feel better, I he had my favorite jiu-jitsu part. So, imagine this. >> The other day I um I was joking around in a video talking about fake nuts. And I messaged Mike Thirsty as we recorded going send me a blood work and he sent it within like an hour. >> Oh, he works with a company in Dubai now. >> Yeah. But the thing is his pre-est is at like 450. Has anyone seen James Smith's blood work? That's what I want to see. >> Yeah, I've got it. >> This >> It's just got to trim my arms. They look bigger. When you trim hair, it makes you look more jacked. >> Right. Okay. All of this from last year. So, if we can actually try and cut to us in Canada. >> I'm just doing my session. >> Well, you seem a bit defensive, mate. That's all. You just seem a little bit defensive. Did they naturally get his testosterone up to a 108 >> or unnaturally? I'm not saying we should start rumors, >> but he is on the HMS good [ __ ] James accusing me of being on performance-enhancing drugs. >> Well, just look at the now a father, much more expensive car about to buy another expensive car. No time to really go to the gym that much. >> Objectively bigger, leaner, and stronger, >> whilst having done no hypertrophy training at all, and wrecking your knee this year. So, it's like >> we all know what it feels to me, it's like unnatural. >> We all know the benefits of creatine. We all know them. They're well documented. and I'm looking to get into the creatine market. Thanks. Thanks a lot for telling everyone real close. >> You you come into my office on the day my daughter is to be married and trying to sell me something. >> Look at each other. >> You see who we've got next door? >> Murderers. thieves, bad people, >> and a couple of creatine gummy brand owners. >> Remember the taste of summer? >> Taste. Chase from top. >> Top. >> Every day. >> No flavors. Two answers. >> Every day. Two flavors. >> Every day. Two flavors. No answers. Someone said action. >> Yeah. Action. >> Everything's overheating. Cans are exploding on the roof because it's so hot. I require a fan at all times and the camera's overheated. So, we're going to strap one of these handheld fans to the back of a hot shoe mount and just point it at the body of the camera to try and cool it down. When we organize these, everyone's so enthusiastic and then on the day we realize it's [ __ ] 37°. >> The Mr. beast version of this video would be how many handheld fans do I need to lift myself off the ground. >> I created a jetpack from USB powered fans. >> I'm going to speak directly to the vlog. I am a New York guy through and through. >> Uh-huh. What's that consist of? >> It's it's getting a hot dog, you know what I mean? And getting a coffee and get and running to work. I'm late to work. >> Okay. Always. Always. >> I'm always I got to get somewhere. You know what I mean? That's me. >> Yeah. Like people don't get it. I am a Toronto guy and I've been a Toronto guy. [ __ ] let's go birds. You know what I'm saying? Naturally, I'm an LA guy. >> You are an LA guy. >> Yeah, that's what they say about me. And I I say, "Guys, don't you don't have to say that." And then they go, "No, no, no, Zach. >> You're one of >> We know you. I am a I'm definitely a Boston guy." That's what people know me as. They know me. They see me and they go, "Oh, that's the Boston guy." And I go, "Yeah, I'm home." [ __ ] It's I I eat, sleep, and breathe this place, bro. >> First time, man. >> Yeah, it's my first time ever here. >> I'm loving it. Bastard. >> I'm in [ __ ] bastard. >> Nice and good. >> Chicago guy. >> No, actually I'm not. >> Not a Chicago guy. >> What? You're a New York guy? >> Yeah. Toronto guy, Boston guy >> certainly. >> But as somebody who was born and raised in Chicago for 18 years, >> not a Chicago guy. >> 20 25 years. >> 25 years. >> No. >> Don't know much about it. Actually, >> there is a dessert. Oh, >> I'm going to hit the red velvet. It look There's a good amount of frosting on the red velvet. Here's my theory about red velvet. The frosting to velvet ratio has to be high. I need high amount of frosting to like a moderate amount of red velvet. Ladies, you're wonderful. >> You're welcome. >> But this is [ __ ] fantastic. The view's great. The food is better. I'm waiting for my first home run. Michael Jordan any minute now. >> Say what up to the vlogs. >> What up vlogs? It's Bailey AND WE'RE IN THE TITANS GAME. LET'S GO. DUDE, THAT'S SICK. That's crazy. This guy is my His Walkout song is my song. >> What are you? Yeah, I'm new to country. Yeah, I'm anything but new to country. Yeah, I'm new to country. >> Okay. You've been talking a lot about how you're you love the chaos. I find personally for me, I always feel like I could be doing more, like I'm not doing enough. And I find slowing down is so difficult. And in your recent episode with Dr. K, you talked about how the answers you're looking for might be in the silence you're avoiding. >> I [ __ ] love that quote. The answers you are looking for are in the silence you're avoiding. >> [ __ ] SL. >> Yeah. I It just really resonated with me and it's something I think about a lot and I'm wondering if you could speak to how to stop avoiding that silence, what you did and what it taught you about yourself. >> A busy calendar is a hedge against existential loneliness. For a lot of people, if you're permanently busy, well, how can I be a piece of [ __ ] I can't be worthless. Look at all of these people who need me. Look at how important look at how important I am. If you don't slow down, you don't have to ask yourself the big questions. You don't have to reflect. So, the compulsion for it is obvious, but I think it's important to realize why you're doing it in order to unwind that on the other side. So, a couple of interesting questions to ask yourself is um what are the emotions that I'm afraid of sitting with? other things that you can practically do. Honestly, I think just booking weekend holidays, like just book a weekend holiday, leave your phone somewhere and don't pack it. Don't be like, "Oh, the itinerary we like because it's just more dopamine. It's more and we'll go from this to that and I'll know exactly where." Like, allow yourself to get lost and allow yourself to sit in that discomfort. Sitting with that silence is really, really tough. But ultimately, the reason that you're working so hard presumably is to give yourself an opportunity to not work so hard. If you work so hard so that when you finally reached escape velocity, you can just work harder with leverage. Like, is that really what you did it for? It's an emotional problem and it's a tactical problem. Tactically, buck some like some holidays, go away, don't plan out the itinerary, learn to spend a couple of hours lying in a hammock or doing something like that. Build a beautiful area outside that engenders you to actually relax, have a hard cut off for work, etc., etc. And then philosophically, what are the emotions that you're struggling to deal with? What is it that comes up? and just be like, "Oh, well that's interesting. I wonder where that comes from." Like allow it to move through you. And uh again, like what a beautiful challenge. One more time, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to the stage, Zack Telander. Oh, let's go, baby. How many special people changed? How many lives are living strange? Where were you getting high? Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball. And where were you while we didn't hide? Someday you will find me caught beneath the landside in a champagne supernova in the sky. And someday you will find me company landslide in a champagne supernova. Champagne supernova in the sky. The end of the year is weird because everybody in the personal development world has one of two very very strong opinions. One is the end of the year is total [ __ ] and January 1st is no different to December 31st and making some sort of commitment then is you delaying it from the 7th of December when you could have just done it in any case. The other camp says it's a great opportunity to uh reset and to sort of launch off into the new year. I fall into the second camp. I've used New Years as a a really good reset point because for the most part you just bleed months into the next into the next and there's no there's no moment where you reflect. So, uh, some of the things I've realized that work well include time away from devices, shock, horror, but like a a formalized review process. Uh, I have one which is chriswilx.com/re. It's free. You can copy it. It's the same thing I've used for quite a while now. Thousand, tens of thousands of people have used it. It's pretty cool. It's free. Um, or you can do whatever you want. Use any review process you want, but I think it's important to set aside a day. And I like doing it in between Christmas and New Year. It's like it's a bit melancholy. It's reflective. It's a bit whimsical. Thinking about what happened, would stuff go well, did stuff go badly, what do I want to change, etc. And that opportunity is an opportunity. It's an opportunity for you to reflect. If you're looking to make 2026 a good year, I think asking yourself the question, what would have had to have happened by the end of 2026 for me to look back on the year and consider it a success? and just what would that have been? You don't get caught up in the narrative, the story, like I really want committed relationship. Okay, that's there's an outcome. That's an outcome that you want. You got 12 months to get there. Okay, that's enough time. I really want move careers. I don't like what what I'm doing. Okay, there we go. Well, got a direction that we're moving in that simplifies the question down as opposed to, you know, mind, body, balance, being, spirit, you know, gets a bit messy. You probably achieve like one or two very big things every year. I would also say in order to pick something up, you have to put something down. Do not assume that your work capacity is going to increase proportionally to how many goals you want to throw into it. Can't do that. You can't just hope that because you say that you want to do a thing, your future self will find the time to be able to do the thing. It's not the way that it works. In order to pick something up, you have to put something down. So, if you want to add that thing into your daily routine or your weekly routine or your goals, what are you going to get rid of? Just take some time. Take some time and reflect between Christmas and New Year. It's the time to do it. Go on walks. Spend some time outside. Don't need to listen to a podcast except for this one. And go gentle on you as well. The stuff that you've succeeded with this year, congratulations. And the things that you've fallen short with, it's all right. It's okay. You probably you probably did the best that you could with what you had. Go jump. Alex has a special skill. Do >> you need music? >> No. >> No. Okay. That's uh you like different UFC fighters have got walkout shoes. That's That's funny. Blues. Yeah, I want to try water recently and the guy was like that is weird >> shoes like like when you go like whether you go to a water like do you want to go to water park? >> Oh, right. Are you going to go >> get two art? >> Yes. >> But then you can't take your shoes cuz someone probably steal them. >> I really do think I really do think that crops could be the answer to a lot of your problems. And good for you. They'll be waterproof. >> Um which I imagine I imagine is important in your line of work. >> Very important. >> Yeah. Cool. That's why I like snorkeling so much. >> Feels like home. Feels like >> a lot of fish. >> Jesus Christ. >> Yeah. There we are. So, I'm going to show you how we've actually managed to shoot in a 200-year-old church in the middle of London. So, come on. Uh, as you can see, a lot of lighting, and this is fake sunlight that was streaming through the uh, open hole at the top of what would have been where the alter would go. This is what it looks like. >> So, we've rotated through a bunch of different angles. You'll see in the earlier episodes that Chris Bumstead, Sam Sulk, Alex Okana, Joe Folly, Constantine Kissing, uh the Bugsy Malone, we're shooting actually in that direction. So, most of the camera stuff being here, shooting in this direction with guest on that side and me on this side. We rotated around a little bit for the round table stuff. So, sort of 45° there. And now we're shooting down a complete other direction, which means you've got this stained glass stuff here behind the guest. >> Sunlight. >> Uh, we added a little bit of hazing and then we've reversed everything. And now those lights that I pointed out as we came in, we're shooting through here. So, we get all of these cool shadows and stuff on the columns over here. What is that? Is that paint? It's not bird [ __ ] is it? Um, but it's epic. like all these different tablets all the way along the walls. Some of them have come off, but most of them are still here. >> So, I'm in the shower this morning. I cried at this I cried at this song every single time I heard it. So, we'll see if it happens again now. Okay. But I wanted you to I'm going to spin the lyrics around and uh we'll play the song. It's also going to get popped on YouTube, but I don't give a [ __ ] because it's sufficiently important that I think it it matters. What's up? >> I'm scared to meet you cuz then I might know you. Then once I know you, I might fall in love. And once I'm in love, then my heart is wide open for you to walk in, drop a bomb, and blow it up. So why love anything? Anything? Anything at all? Why anything at all? If the higher I fly is the further I fall, then why love anything at all? Stressed and strong out about things that could happen. And I can move mountains with worry I've done. So I called my father and he started laughing. He said, "You think it's bad now until you have a son?" >> [ __ ] >> Yeah. My thoughts are that somehow or another that the the heartbreak is bad. Like that that's the assumption in the song that like somehow the heartbreak is bad, but that like heartbreak is something I look forward to. It's a bold claim. Uh it is until you realize that uh every time your heart breaks open, it increases your capacity to love. I I feel nothing but gratitude for Chris. Um I'm glad he's in the world. I'm really glad Chris is in the world. And it's a weird thing to say, but I'm also really proud of him. What I noticed is that Chris is going, it used to be more trying to prove yourself, less heart, and now it's a lot more heart and very little to prove. And so I think that that's the transition that I see him in. And and I think in that becomes a more authentic and soulful reality for him and for his viewers. He comes across as a gym bro, you know, and and I'm really proud that he's showing that you can have all of that, like the cars and the garage for the place to do the podcast and cry out a song about a son. Like to show people that you can actually have that full breath of humanity instead of you have to be one or the other. I'm really proud that he's making that move. I think it's something that will will have an inspiration on a generation of young men in particular. I think I think it might be hard for young women because they're going to be like that's what I want. I want a man who's like tough and emotionally available. Um but good because men could use that pressure. the what we've done this time differently which we didn't do last time. We didn't like build out an environment. This time we have we've got like a desert thing with props and stuff that ties the foreground to the background. A huge practical element which is the Airstream camper van thing. And then he's the most Texan man on earth. So we have to have him in a desert. Of course we do. >> Guys, check this out. >> Put me in a barn last time. >> Yeah. >> I'm trying to make you feel Jeez. >> How you good, man? >> Let's see. Put this together. Do you do this production value for all your >> There it is. >> Unfortunately, just for you. >> A couple of >> Was that was that here? >> No, we brought that for you, too. >> Oh, damn, man. Check out the BGs. >> Hi, everybody. I'm pretty good, man. >> So, I mentioned to you that this is episode 1,000. >> Yeah. >> Uh, it's been 7 and 1/2 years. Uh, we just crossed a billion views the other day as well. >> Congrats, man. And as a little surprise to you, we wanted to take you back to an environment that you probably know at least a little bit well. Ah, Cooper's Place, Alberta, Canada, where we shot it. We planted production planted all those corn fields, too. They're as far as I could see. And this is the road Cooper drives up on the way out. And that's that Han Zimmer countdown. 10 9 8 Leaving children to follow dream list off. Not having any hope or faith in anything is a certain way to remain where you are. But if you can find something that you can keep going, something that no matter how small to look forward to and continue to have faith in and chase, well then your life here is going to be better. Now make a sacrifice today. Sacrifice a plastic ring today for a gold crown tomorrow. Sacrifice something today for more freedom tomorrow. Sacrifice something today for a possible healthier future for you. >> Make land. >> No. No. It's crazy. >> This a nice house. Nice. Thank you everyone for being here. Thank you. >> You did it, baby. >> Congratulations, y'all. >> I was older than I should have been and more immature than I should have been. And I needed a vehicle to help me understand myself and the world around me. And so I started talking to people on the internet and turned it into a job and a thousand episodes later and clearly eight years. It's become the most important thing that I've ever done. We've reached over a billion views. It's taken me across the planet. I've changed careers, relationships, friendships, tax residences. Every person that's listened to this show has changed my life with the device that's in the pocket. >> So, thank you