3.7M Q&A - Fatherhood Plans, Medical Update & New Hairstyle - #972

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
What's happening, people? Welcome back to the show. It is a 3.7 million subscriber Q&A episode. Before we get into this one, I'm going on tour. This October, November and December, I'm going on tour around all of North America, Canada as well, and tickets sold out for lots of places. So Toronto sold out, LA sold out, Nashville sold out, and Vancouver sold out. But there are still tickets available for New York at the Town Hall on Thursday, October 23rd, for Boston at the Wilbur on Thursday, November 13th, Chicago at the Vic on Friday, November 14th. Nashville is sold out. Austin, the Paramount Theatre, Thursday, November 20th. That's the adopted hometown show. Salt Lake City at the Complex, Thursday, December 4th. Denver at the Paramount Theatre, Friday, December 5th. All of those have still got limited tickets available, and you can get yours now at chriswilliamson.live. You can come and see me. It's a solo live show, me on stage for an hour and a half, and then there's a Q&A at the end, and there's a meet and greet afterward. And this sold out in Australia and in London last year, and it's really good. And I'm never going to run the show again. So after this particular tour is done, the self-discovery show is going to be binned for the rest of time. So if you want to come and see me live, chriswilliamson.live. All right, let's get into asking and answering some questions. Insiders22, what's going on with the hair? Yes, fair question. I've got a lot of comments about this. In the last five years since I had this hair, which was the hair I had five years ago, go back to like pre early COVID. This is the hair that I had for a decade. To now, it's kind of someone with curly hair that's short on the sides, has taken on an entire new meme meaning all of its own. Mark Zuckerberg hasn't helped in that regard. It's like the broccoli hair cut. But you have to understand that if you're a person with curly hair, if you're a guy with curly hair like me, you have three hair style options, right? You can have skinhead, which I did for the last five years since COVID, my COVID hair cut just extended. You can have short on the sides, long on the top, or some version of mullet, right? Still short on the sides and long elsewhere, which ends up kind of looking like this. Or you can grow afro. Those are the three options. Skinhead, newly nomenclatured broccoli haircut, and afro. Those are the only three options. I was kind of sick of the skinhead thing. I'd done it for so long. I quite like having hair for the first time in half a decade. Dean can put up a selection of the different hairstyles that he's known me with since we've been friends for two decades now.
To say that this is the most extreme thing I've ever done would be incorrect. Had an afro for a very long time. Had this haircut, grew a massive beard, grew like twirly handlebar mustaches. I've cycled through luck because I've just been really stable since COVID. Unstable mentally, but stable at least in terms of my hair. That's what's going on with it. If someone wants to propose an alternative haircut, I am open to suggestions, but there's not that much that you can do with curly hair. Shave it off, grow it in some areas and grow it everywhere. And to grow it everywhere is not an option. And the shave it off thing I just did. So that's what's going on. Case closed. Thank you, Your Honor. Ropiliano. How to deal with procrastination. Do you ever have to deal with it? I mean, I don't know what human doesn't. Yes, I do all the time. I sit down at my desk and look at whatever I'm supposed to be doing and maybe not even know what I'm supposed to be doing. Just think that there's work to be done and tasks to be completed and not like scroll, Instagram, watch YouTube, fuck about, like be on my phone, like just not do the thing I'm supposed to. Oh, I'll get up and go for a walk. Oh, I'll go and like rearrange the sources in the cupboards, like anything to not do the work that you're supposed to be doing.
And there's people that are way more scientific than me. At least the things that I found for me, procrastination primarily comes from two places. First is, you don't know what to do. And the second is, you don't know how to do it. The first one's real easy to fix, right? You are building a podcast, right? You're gonna launch your first podcast, but you don't launch a podcast. You do a series of really tiny next actions that then eventually result in a podcast being launched. So when you say, I'm gonna sit down today and move myself closer to launching my podcast, okay? What is that? Like, what are you going to do? You don't know what to do? You can't do it. So you go, I need to break down this big project into action steps. Okay, I need to do brainstorming for the name. Ah, hooray. There we go, that's a, I can do that. You can't launch a podcast, but you can come up with a name. And then I need to work out who I'm gonna use for hosting. So I need to research hosting platforms and make decision and sign up with credit card. Okay, that's the next thing. Go on ChatGPT and make artwork for all the graphic artists to fucking tear in the hair out. You know what I mean? Like you do those. That's the first thing. Second thing is you know what to do, but you don't know how to do it. And then it's just a case of research on the internet, ChatGPT, get a tutor, whatever. And those really for me are the two biggest roadblocks. And when I'm whining about procrastinating or berating myself for not getting things done and wasting my time, it's usually because of one of those two things. So that's how I deal with it. Avery Christensen, what shorts do you wear? I live in one of two pairs of shorts. These. Those Gymshark Heritage 5 inch shorts are phenomenal. Out of focus. Hello again. They are by far the best travel shorts, just day to day. They're so comfy. I love them. They've got these new ones with a raw hem edge, which are really nice. I think they're called the Heritage 5 inch. Then for training, I use what they call the hybrid shorts, Gymshark's hybrid shorts, and that's it. Two pairs of shorts, that's all I need. I've been around the world and there's loads of different colors. They're super comfy. They're like 25 bucks, maybe a 30 bucks. They last forever. They're easy to wash and dry. They don't take up much room. They're like, the fact that guys get to wear shorts is kind of a bit of a hack. That's it, those two. And gymsh.sh slash Modern Wisdom, I think gets you access to the page of all of my, all the clothes that I wear from them. I'm going to get in trouble from Gymshark for this, but Barbell Apparel have got some really awesome swim shorts. I really love their swim shorts. And that's it, that's like my entire wardrobe. Colin De Jong, love the Under Earth episode. Thank you. When are we going to see more musical guests? Bare-tooth. I was with Caleb at Summer of Loud only a few weeks ago, and he's kind of balls deep in new music writing at the moment after Summer of Loud finishes. He'll 100% be coming on. I am going real hard on the music thing. If you could see the list, my wish list of people to speak to, it's really cool. If you're into alternative and heavy music or country, we should have some really cool people before the end of the year, and I'm pushing super hard. I love that conversation with the guys from Under Earth. I thought it was phenomenal, and we're making some changes with the direction of the show, which I'll probably tell you about at some point. I'm really excited about it. I've done the same thing for a very long time. It's still going to be the same thing, but just slight adjustments in this direction, and one of them is going to be pushing into real passions of mine, and Under Oath music is a big part of it. I'm really glad that you enjoyed it, and yes, there will be lots more musical guests. Rick Beato as well. If you missed that one, you should go and see it. Built by Rob. If a girl says she wants to take our relationship day by day, how should I approach this?