3.5M Q&A - Dating Famous People, Naval Reflections, & Marrying Douglas Murray - #930

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
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 Rowan off the number one spot a couple of weeks ago, which was 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. But 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, if you need to listen to a new track, Sleep Token's song Caramel is we 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 will 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 for 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, especially when the very thing that you need is the very thing you're complaining about, right? You weren't kind to yourself, and now I'm not being kind to myself about not being kind to myself. It's tough. I mentioned on the vlog, if people haven't checked it out, it's pretty cool. It's probably my favorite thing we've done.
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 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 at your self-belief. Then someone's saying, hey dude, why don't you go on the biggest podcast in the world and then record the biggest podcast you've ever done within four days of each other. By the way, you've got to travel in between to two other cities. That just really pushed it. That's also for the people that watch to the end, I have a little sad boy moment. That's the first time that I think I've ever cried on camera, which I was so fucking close to cutting it out. I was so close to just saying, get rid of it. It feels too uncomfortable. I can't bear to see myself be such a pussy. But it was real. It was definitely how I felt at the time. Yeah, trying to be kind to my unkindness is a skill that I'm yet to develop. But it seemed to resonate, which was beautiful and no one said too many mean things about it. Or not many people said that many mean things about it. I get the sense that if I was a fan of this show, or I think about shows that I'm a fan of, fucking like Huberman, right? Let's say that I'm watching one of Andrew's shows and he gets a little bit emotional talking about the challenges that he faces and I think, oh my God, he seems so smart and well put together and he's got all of this stuff going for him. Wow, he feels the same things that I do.