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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?"
"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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Clear filters"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?"
"I'm a big investor in Heritability who is the most evidence-based one of these."
"I did it on a case of Red Bull and three bags of very, very questionable cocaine from my local dealer."
"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 use Cold Turkey which I think is something similar."
"This Bloom Pop stuff fucking rips, dude. It's so tasty. I'm a massive fan of a chilled beverage. Highly recommend."
"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"
"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"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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"
"This deal has been there for a long time with Portfolio from Penguin. Adrian, the owner, is really wonderful with me and has allowed me to put my delivery date back three times already."
"I've been using the neutonic sachets and the capsules as opposed to the RTD. So I took a break from caffeine."
"We are actually working with the designer for Sleep Token's stuff. So, the guy who does all of Sleep Token's merch, I managed to get an intro to him."