2.5M Q&A - Naval Ravikant, Quitting Alcohol & Having Kids - #835

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
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But now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the wise and ever so wonderful... Me.
What's happening, people? Welcome back to the show. It is a 2.5 million subscriber Q&A episode. And this one is, I guess, a bit more special because 250K was the number of subs I had when I moved out to America two and a half years ago. And this is 10 times that, which feels like a cool milestone in two and a half years. It's been a lot of work to get here and a bit of sanity lost, I guess, along the way, but very worthwhile. And it feels good, you know, every time that I do one of these, I try not to get too soppy about support and all the shares and the likes and the nice messages and all the rest of it. But I really do appreciate it more than I can ever say. So thank you. As usual, I asked for questions from YouTube community and Twitter and Instagram, and there were way more than I'm going to be able to get through. So let's get into it. Chris Kavanagh, you've talked about the importance of getting more comfortable with asking critical questions and how difficult it can be. Has this given you some appreciation for traditional journalism and confrontational style interviews? Yes, massively. Looking at Kathy Newman or Helen Lewis against Peterson, every conversation Douglas Murray is ever involved in, like Piers Morgan, Cenk Uygur, like these people, I don't know, it's so to be able to have that level of what kind of feels a bit like vitriol. It certainly seems like aggression, but then it's sort of controlled and then people walk away at the end. I mean, do they shake hands? Do you shake hands? Jordan Peterson and Helen Lewis shake hands after they finished that up? I don't know. But yeah, it's a real skill set. Debating, being around Alex O'Connor, being friends with him and seeing how, going for dinner with him can be a fucking nightmare because he just wants to debate everything. So yeah, hugely given me a different appreciation. It's a skill set. That being said, certain things come to certain people more easily. For me, asking sort of probing questions and chasing down random thought patterns, little curiosities comes very easily. I'm sure there's some confrontational style journalists that go, oh God, it would be great if I could sort of continue to pursue a particular question more effectively like that, but I can argue very, very easily. So everyone's got their different skill sets, and I guess I'm just trying to fill in the weaknesses of mine wherever I can. Kyle Pereira, 5190 What would you say to the people who said you won't make it?