600k Q&A - Masculinity Crisis, Overrated Thinkers & Lex Fridman - #574

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is me. I hit 600,000 subscribers on YouTube, and as usual to celebrate, I asked for questions from YouTube community, Twitter, locals and Instagram. So here is another 90 minutes of me trying to answer as many as possible. There are some phenomenal questions, as always, about whether Lex Fridman is coming on the podcast, who the most overrated thinker out there is, and my plans for 2023 Expect to learn what my thoughts are on masculinity being in crisis, my best advice for men in their 20s, whether it's possible to have a well-meaning conversation about the left without calling everybody woke, where I buy my t-shirts from, who I want to bring on the show in 2023, my biggest tips for starting a YouTube channel, why it's a good thing that Newton didn't have Twitter and much more. You should have seen this already, but the big episode, the big episode I've been talking about for ages and ages, the one that I've been building up to for most of six months last year, and we flew all the way out to Las Vegas, was David Goggins, the hardest man on the planet. I managed to catch up with him in Vegas. We sat down for two hours in a custom-built studio inside of a sound stage with 6K cinema cameras and a haze machine, and custom lighting, and a purpose-built backdrop, and it's beautiful, and it's going to go live one week today. So, thank you to everyone that supported this little announcement and has got excited along with me. It is easily the biggest project that we've done on the show, and I really wanted to push the limits of what was possible visually without detracting away from the conversation. So yes, get ready for an exclusive two-hour conversation with David Goggins going live next Monday everywhere. So make sure that you've hit subscribe, or you'll miss it. 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