4.2M Q&A - Sleeping With An Ex, Harambe & Settling Down - #1104

**Chris Williamson** (0:13)
What's happening, people? Welcome back to the show. It is a 4.2 million subscriber Q&A episode. And as is tradition, I ask for questions from Twitter and YouTube and Instagram, and there were lots. So let's get into it. Stealthing Through 21 What's going on with all these group episodes in the studio? Yeah, I guess I kind of launched this studio, and at no point actually got to tell you that it was happening. It's sort of unceremonious beginning. There's no ribbon-cutting thing. And I'm just having a lot of fun having multiple guests in the studio with me. I, you know, for a long time, Modern Wisdom has been very serious, meaningful conversations, me talking to world experts, you know, 1,100 episodes like that. And I still love doing that. But sometimes it can feel a little bit like homework when it's very serious all the time. And these Hang style episodes, the one that I did with Huberman, McCusker and Segura for me was one of the most fun conversations I've ever had. I thought that was awesome. I think that the episodes I do with George and Sean have been so much fun as well. The debate stuff is cool because it's not necessarily people on opposite sides of a discussion. One of the problems of most debates, at least for me on the Internet, is that it becomes a slanging match. Everyone's there as basically a verbal blood sport to see who can fuck who up the most. You don't actually get to arrive at consensus at the end. What you get is a bunch of people who shouted, and you don't actually know what the conclusion is or the takeaway, because no one's going to seed ground. No one ever says, oh, actually, that's an interesting insight. I never thought of that because they know that they're supposed to be in opposition. Whereas the conversations that I'm trying to put together are people who have slightly differing perspectives on the same topic. That means that maybe they can actually develop each other's worldviews as opposed to it just being this like Beyblade. Remember Beyblades where you like gripped it and ripped it and it span around and everybody got destroyed. In the end, everybody got destroyed. I don't want that. I'm just having a lot of fun. I want to have a lot of fun on the show, especially this year. It took six months to build the studio and I love being here. I'm not going to do that and not invite my friends around to hang out and have a good time and have a laugh. Also, if I'm being honest, I think that the grind slop era of pushing people to always, always only ever really focus on personal development and self-improvement at the expense of everything else. I'm personally feeling a little bit of fatigue with that. That's still amazing for me in Hormozi to sit down and talk and get people to lock in. But it's nice when you have your starter, your main course and your dessert and the dessert is a little bit of a treat. These are just treats. I'm giving you a small, it's a canopy, it's like a little dessert canopy. Every so often, I'm just flicking little bits of chocolate sauce at you.
I'm having a lot of fun with them. I'm enjoying them. I think they rule. I think in the era of AI, people are already drowning in a lot of information and the number one use for LLMs and for chats are coaching, advice for people, what they're going through.
Do we need to have even more more of that? Or is it going to be nice to have a bit of a safe space where people can just relax and listen? If I don't take notes of every single episode, you may not learn anything from the Huberman-Segura-Makotsuka episode. You genuinely may not learn anything from it, but you'll have a good time. Honestly, I think that's worth an awful lot. Anyway, I'm loving them. I'm really enjoying them. I like sitting down and having the series conversations, but I'm just playing around with new formats. I appreciate you guys being patient. I understand as well, I'm probably going to lose some audience members. There's some people who just want to hear me and another person do the dark furrowed brows serious thing, and there's going to be some people are not going to like it. But I've always followed my instincts with the show. I've always really tried to just do what I wanted. Because if I'm having fun and I'm enjoying it and it resonates with me, I have to assume that it will resonate with you too, or I hope it does, and that's what I'm doing. That's my master plan. My master plan is to have fun and to try and do stuff that's different. I don't know really of any other shows or many of the shows that are trying to put it together in this way. And this feels like a bit of white space that I can move into, which I want to because I enjoy it. And also it's something that I know maybe is different. It's different. Maybe you can't get it elsewhere. So that's my thinking. I hope you enjoy it. I'm always open to feedback. So just comment on stuff that you like, stuff that you don't like, people you want to see, people you don't want to. I am going to try and put Neil deGrasse Tyson and Mark Normand on a round table. I'm going to try and put Eric Weinstein with Rick Glassman on a round table together. I'm going to try and do Bert Kreischer with Brian Johnson. And just see what happens. I'm going to pull a bunch of pins on grenades, throw them in the middle of that table that's right there. This is the same studio, but it's the same room, at least by the way. And also, I'm sorry, the new studio thing, Unceremonious Launch.