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Everything Chris personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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"Jerry, can you just Google Oh, the ChatGPT how many babies were born from the crisper editing in China?"
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"I'd have my Kindle and I'd have this little blanket and I'd put this blanket over my knees and I'd have a cushion and I'd put my Kindle on the cushion and I'd sit down and I'd try and read."
"meditation insight timer unguided doing Shinzen Young's five ways to know yourself which is the only really the only unguided meditation that I know."
"I've been using the neutonic sachets and the capsules as opposed to the RTD. So I took a break from caffeine."
"I've been using these AO glasses. They're kind of like light therapy light therapy panel but you wear them above your eyes. They look really dorky, but I've been wearing them."
"He works with a company, hydrogen water company, Echo, that I'm a fan of."
"If I do guided, I use Waking Up from Sam Harris."
"Song just came up on my Spotify. I had it on shuffle and it was making me think of you."
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"I'd rather leave my kids at a Somali daycare than with anyone who works at the BBC."
"What? Did you see what they did to Doctor Who?"
"We initially thought GLP-1's like Ozempic, Zepbound, and retatrutide just reduced food cravings. Now we know they work for alcohol and gambling and other addictions, too."
"Polyester underwear on dogs tanked their progesterone 90% and 75% of them couldn't get pregnant. Polyester creates an electrostatic field that disrupts hormone production."
"We initially thought GLP-1's like Ozempic, Zepbound, and retatrutide just reduced food cravings. Now we know they work for alcohol and gambling and other addictions, too."
"Congratulations for making it to the end of a clip. Your brain has not been fried by TikTok."
"We initially thought GLP-1's like Ozempic, Zepbound, and retatrutide just reduced food cravings. Now we know they work for alcohol and gambling and other addictions, too."
"The most common way that high negative affect people manage their negative affect is alcohol because it's unbelievably effective."
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"Jared, do a ChatGPT search. What was the ancient cup that was made to ensure people didn't overfill it?"
"Jerry, can you just Google Oh, the ChatGPT how many babies were born from the crisper editing in China?"
"readily available information is completely free or at most what, $10 a month for Claude or ChatGPT?"
"I saw a bunch of fury two or 3 weeks ago when ChatGPT discontinued 4o and 4o had a very particular type of personality to it and that discontinuation was devastating for lots of people."
"Now people just use ChatGPT. You've seen that South Park episode, right? Where all of the guys outsource their texts to their girlfriends to ChatGPT."
"you go to ChatGPT and you load the last few messages in and you say, 'Can you write me a reply that is meaningful and loving that compromises without completely destroying my boundaries'"
"I'm a big investor in Heritability who is the most evidence-based one of these."
"like just table salt cuz it was before Element and was available in the UK. Maybe I didn't even know it existed."
"For the last 5 years I've started every single morning with a cold glass of LMNT in water. I genuinely feel a difference when I use it versus when I don't."
"I am frankly dependent on it and it's how I've started my day every single morning"
"I am frankly dependent on it, and it's how I've started my day every single morning. This is the best tasting hydration drink on the market."
"You've probably heard me talk about LMNT before and that's because I am frankly dependent on it. And it's how I've started my day every single morning."
"I am frankly dependent on it. Uh, and it's how I've started my day every single morning."
"I am frankly dependent on it and it's how I've started my day every single morning. This is the best tasting hydration drink on the market."
"You've probably heard me talk about Element before, and that's because I am frankly dependent on it. And it's how I've started my day every single morning."
"I am frankly dependent on it, and it's how I've started my day every single morning. This is the best tasting hydration drink on the market."
"This lemon Lemonade flavor in a cold glass of water is how I've started my morning every single week for years."
"This is the best tasting hydration drink on the market. This is how I've started my day every single morning."
"you've probably heard me talk about Element before, and that's because I am frankly dependent on it. This is how I've started my day every single morning."
"You've probably heard me talk about Element before and that's because I am frankly dependent on it. And it's how I've started my day every single morning. This is the best tasting hydration drink on the market."
"I am frankly dependent on it, and it's how I've started my day every single morning. This is the best tasting hydration drink on the market."
"This lemon lemonade flavor in a glass of water is how I've started my morning every single week for years. Element contains a science-backed electrolyte ratio. Sodium, potassium, and magnesium with no color, no sugar, no artificial ingredients."
"Hydration makes a massive difference in how you perform and hydration is more than just drinking water. LMNT is a tasty electrolyte drink with everything you need and nothing."
"This is the best tasting hydration drink on the market. I am frankly dependent on it and it's how I've started my day every single morning."
"This is the best tasting hydration drink on the market. You will genuinely feel a difference when you take it versus when you don't, which is why I keep going on about it."
"Element contains a science-backed electrolyte ratio. Sodium, potassium, and magnesium with no color, no sugar, no artificial ingredients or any other BS."
"LMNT contains a science-backed electrolyte ratio: sodium, potassium, and magnesium with no color, no sugar, no artificial ingredients or any other BS. This lemon lemonade flavor glass of water is how I've started my morning every single week for years."
"I'd have my Kindle and I'd have this little blanket and I'd put this blanket over my knees and I'd have a cushion and I'd put my Kindle on the cushion and I'd sit down and I'd try and read."
"I did it on a case of Red Bull and three bags of very, very questionable cocaine from my local dealer."
"Do you know Gym Shark? You familiar with Gym Shark? No. So, it's probably one of the biggest British companies to active. I'm actually wearing the trousers right now"
"I have tried pretty much every brand of gymwear over the years. Their hybrid shorts, especially in onyx gray and navy, are basically my uniform in the gym at this point."
"Gym Shark makes the best men's and girls gymwear on the planet. Let's face it, the more that you like your gym kit, the more likely you are to train."
"Their hybrid training shorts for men are the best men's shorts on the planet. Their crest hoodie and light gray Maul is what I fly in every single time I'm on a plane."
"Gymshark makes the best men's and girls gymwear on the planet. Their hybrid training shorts for men are the best men's shorts on the planet. Their crest hoodie and light gray marl is what I fly in every single time I'm on a plane."
"Gym Shark makes the best men's and girls gymwear on the planet. Their hybrid training shorts for men are the best men's shorts on the planet."
"Gym Shark makes the best men's and girls gymwear on the planet. Let's face it, the more that you like your gym kit, the more likely you are to train."
"Gym Shark makes the best men's and girls gymwear on the planet. Their hybrid training shorts for men are the best men's shorts on the planet."
"This Bloom Pop stuff fucking rips, dude. It's so tasty. I'm a massive fan of a chilled beverage. Highly recommend."
"I use Cold Turkey which I think is something similar."
"Do you know Cold Turkey? It's a website limiter app limiter for MacBook. We've been using it for a decade."
"And we rendered the entire scene in Unreal Engine 5 and then did set dressing. So we had live elements, dirt on the floor and cactuses"
"I've got the journals on my Apple Notes still of what if I do this thing and it goes wrong and everyone's going to laugh at me"
"Listen, I've got it in my Audible. George has got it in his a couple of our friends that we've sent it to"
"There's an extension for Google Chrome called Push to Kindle, and if I press it, the article appears on my Kindle because I don't like reading on my phone and I don't like reading on my laptop."
"Song just came up on my Spotify. I had it on shuffle and it was making me think of you."
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"I trained martial arts from the time I was seven until I was in my 20s. I trained Okinawan and Goju karate and Muay Thai kickboxing and I gave it up."
"I trained martial arts from the time I was seven until I was in my 20s. I trained Okinawan and Goju karate and Muay Thai kickboxing and I gave it up."
"When I got divorced, I went back to martial arts class when I took up Brazilian jiu-jitsu because I actually took up well, you know, Craig Jones actually said in an interview recently like this is cardio for divorce."
"It's not more bench press or Brazilian jiu-jitsu or even more time meditating, right? All of these things are actions that you have done."
"I trained martial arts from the time I was seven until I was in my 20s. I trained Okinawan and Goju karate and Muay Thai kickboxing and I gave it up."
"Joseph Campbell has this hero's journey that he charts out and it's basically a clock where you start up here. I had been charting where I was and he's got like basically 12 to 17 different stages."
"to be honest therapy has been so activating for me and interesting"
"I've been using these AO glasses. They're kind of like light therapy light therapy panel but you wear them above your eyes. They look really dorky, but I've been wearing them."