Modern Wisdom
#930 - 3.5M Q&A - Dating Famous People, Naval Reflections, & Marrying Douglas Murray
Sat, 19 Apr 2025
I hit 3.5 million Subscribers on YouTube!! To celebrate, I asked for questions from YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram, so here’s another 90 minutes of me trying to answer as many as possible. Expect to learn what it is like dating semi-famous people, what I think of the new Sleep Token songs, if I am finally getting a new haircut, reflections from the Naval interview and who is up next on my "Mount Rushmore" for podcast guests, how I grew my forearms, tips for being kinder to yourself and much more... Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get 35% off your first subscription on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.com/modernwisdom Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period from Shopify at https://shopify.com/modernwisdom 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: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - 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
Chapter 1: What are Chris Williamson's thoughts on the new Sleep Token songs?
Bonjour, friends. Welcome back to the show. It is a 3.5 million subscriber Q&A episode. I ask for questions on the internet. You give them to me. Then I choose only the ones about the Gaza Strip and trans issues. And I talk about them for an hour and a half. So let's get into it. The Mr. Wyatt. What's your favorite new sleep token, Caramel or Emergence?
For the few people in the audience that don't know who Sleep Token are, they're a band. They're a band that I'm a big fan of and I've been listening to for quite a while. And they knocked Chapel Roan off the number one spot a couple of weeks ago, which was fantastic. Pretty fun to see, given that that song has actual death metal pieces in it. I have got Caramel on repeat, dude.
I adore that xylophone at the start. I think his voice is... The lyrics, they're super meaningful as well. You know, it kind of does... track a little bit i suppose he's talking about the challenges and perils of fame and increased attention and scrutiny and not really knowing how to deal with it so yeah uh if you need to listen to a new track sleep token song caramel is muy bueno
Paul Irish 1165, when will you be in Toronto next for a live event? I am about to announce my first ever US and Canada live tour. That'll be happening at the end of this year and tickets will go on sale soon. And if you want to sign up to get first access to tickets, first access to dates, VIP, VVIP, meet and greet, all of that shit, you can go to chriswilliamson.live.
And Toronto is one of the cities that's on there. And I'm not going to say what any of the others are because that's what the announcement is supposed to be about. But chriswilliamson.live and you'll find out before anybody else. Daniel Semper Pico, how do you deal with judging yourself for judging yourself?
In your latest vlog, you talked about how you weren't kind to yourself after your Joe Rogan interview, then you seem to be judging yourself for that. Yeah, dude, it's so funny that you say that. I don't know whether this got left in the vlog, but I did a section, I spoke to Max, videographer Max, about how I was trying to be unkind to my unkindness to myself.
So how do you deal with judging yourself or judging yourself is a super smart question. And it's tough, man. You end up with this infinite regress of feeling bad and then feeling bad about feeling bad and then feeling resentful about feeling bad about feeling bad and then getting frustrated at your resentment and then getting anxious about your frustration.
And yeah, these second, third, fourth order emotions that go all the way back are Um, especially when the very thing that you need is the very thing you're complaining about, right? Uh, you weren't kind to yourself and now I'm not being kind to myself about not being kind to myself. Um, it's tough. Uh, I mentioned on the vlog, if people haven't checked it out, it's, it's pretty cool. It's
It's strange if you have a period where your confidence gets knocked, and mine certainly has over the last couple of months. Being ill, still trying to sort of hold on to the same work rate and output and mood and stuff, whilst just not really, really not having it in the tank. It can chip away your self-belief.
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Chapter 2: When and where is Chris Williamson's upcoming live tour?
than usual uh this is three weeks three or four weeks perhaps uh anyway i will see i may bail out you honestly i may get five weeks deep and go i can't deal with this fuzz anymore and just pull the ripcord and eject myself out of it but yeah this haircut's only existed for the last five years and the show's been going for seven so if you go back to pre-covid you will see me with hair
Chad Preet, good name, like Indian, like fucking jacked guy, Chad Preet. When are you updating book list? Name some you would add. Good question. So I have a reading list. I'm really proud of it. I wrote it four years ago. It's a hundred books you should read before you die. And you can get it at chriswillx.com slash books. It's completely free. And like 300,000 people have got it.
And a lot of people have asked for a second one. So many people, I actually wrote one. So I've done it. It's finished. So there is another Modern Wisdom Reading List Volume 2 with another 100 books coming. It's with the designer. He'll be putting it together. And this will be available, I would imagine... end of the month, maybe, probably before May, start of May, something like that.
There'll be a different landing page. It'll be offered to people who are on the other reading list first. So I guess sign up, chriswillex.com slash books, and you'll get 100, and then you'll get another 100 at the end of the month. So yeah, I'm updating it soon. Names some that I would add. Who is in there that's really cool? Um... uh, from Vikings to Tinder, uh, by Mads Larsson.
So I've got some stuff in that. I've got poetry in there for the first time. I've got free books like Mads' book. Uh, so most of it is stuff that you would buy, but I've got more shit that's on, I suggest that you listen to on Audible as opposed to just being like, consume it however you want. So I tried to refine it a little bit more, but, um, uh, I'm happy with it.
It nearly killed me to do it again. It's such a...
mind-numbing task to do a hundred books all with custom written by me summaries about why I like them and then I create my own categories for them and then I got to reorder them so I think they work and yeah I realized part way through it why I hadn't done it for four years since the last time I did it but it's done with the designer and you'll get it soon
When are we getting the Modern Wisdom t-shirts? Yes, I know every time I do a Q&A, I give you the same answer, which is we're working on it, but we're working on it and you'll get it soon. And the first drop will be an exclusive, you know, first edition of what it is we're going to do. It's going to be a slightly adjusted brand, which I adore and I can't wait to release.
And I really, really think is one of the coolest things I've done in branding probably since Newtonic. So it's fun. I haven't got, you know, Modern Wisdom's kind of locked in. And I don't get to play about with new ideas from branding. You get to do copy for the episodes and the titles and stuff. But it's not something brand, brand new. And this is brand new. So I'm excited.
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Chapter 3: How does Chris Williamson handle self-judgment and self-kindness?
i know i i'm starting i'm trying to cultivate fuck you energy i am and it's going to be more important over the next few years to be able to have that i not actively that i don't care about what you think but that you willfully misinterpreted what i said and go fuck yourself because you know that you did that and it happens so much it already is happening and it's super annoying but i uh
That's something that I need to build up. The preparedness to not care about the opinions of people who don't understand what I'm doing and don't like me and don't care about making the things that are contributing to the stuff that I'm trying to create. But it is kind of stupid to think, okay, so this person doesn't understand what you're doing. They don't care about you.
They don't have your best interests at heart. They're not one of your people and they don't want you to be better. And you are believing and putting faith and stock in what they say about you or to you. why? Why would you do that? They're not impressive people. They're not nice people. They're not people that you respect. They're not people that care about you.
They're not doing this to try and make you better. They're simply doing it to try and stand on the shoulders of some supposed error or slip up or smoking gun of yours. So really, when you think about it rationally, when I think about it logically, There's no reason that I should care about it. But it's something that I'm working through.
And I guess you'll find out if it gets to a stage where I go, you know, we really need to be worried about Matt and I just jump straight into it. You'll know that I have reached escape velocity. So hold on. Dave Kiers, you mentioned feeling unwell in your last Q&A. How are you feeling now? Yeah. It's all right. I'm A little better in terms of brain function, which is good.
And the Rogan and Naval weekend was... formative for me because i felt so shitty going in i felt so my brain was so slippery i call it slippery brain i had such slippery brain where i wasn't holding on to thoughts i wasn't recalling well i wasn't precise with my speech all of the things i really take pride in and i think i contribute well it just weren't there and i was like for fuck's sake i
The very thing that I'm supposed to be good at has been taken away from me and I have no doing of my own. All I've done for over 12 months now, like 14 months, maybe more, all I've done is try and fix my health.
Unlimited numbers of saunas and cold plunges and phosphatidylcholine and glutathione and 25 gram bags of vitamin C IV and blood cleaning treatments in Tijuana and peptides and gut detox protocols and... Like everything, like the list of things that I've done is huge.
And I will do, I know that a lot of people that suffer with sort of like complex chronic illness and tinnitus and all of the shit that I've, EBV, mold, toxic, all of the stuff I've talked about.
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