Christmas Special - Hacks, Fails & New Year Plans - #044

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Festive greetings, friends. It is time for us to look back with fondness and a little bit of cringing on 2018 Myself, Jonny and Yusef put on our best Christmas jumpers and sat down to do a year in review, moving through our favorite life hacks, our favorite life fails, what our plans are going to be as we move forward into 2019, and hopefully give you some ideas for habits and routines that you may be able to bring in to your New Year's plan. As always, please spread the festive cheer and life hacks by sharing the episode with anyone who you think would enjoy it. It would make me very happy indeed. And I can't really think of a better Christmas present that you could give me than sharing the episode with some friends who'd love it. So all that's left to say is enjoy the episode. I hope you have a very lovely Christmas and a happy New Year. We are going to be releasing a bloopers episode, which is a collection of all of the times that we've messed up while trying to record something slick. And that will be appearing on the Modern Wisdom YouTube channel very soon. So head there, press subscribe, and you will not miss out on seeing us look very silly. Over and over and over again. Merry Christmas, everyone.
A very Merry Christmas to you. Welcome back. I'm joined by Jonny and Yusef from Propane Fitness.

**Jonny** (1:50)
Hi there.

**Chris Williamson** (1:51)
Hello. As you can see, we are festively adorned.

**Jonny** (1:54)
Merry Cremble.

**Chris Williamson** (1:55)
For that time of the year. And for the listeners at home.

**Jonny** (1:58)
Christmas Winky.

**Chris Williamson** (2:00)
For the listeners at home, we have a special present for you as well, don't we, Jonathan?

**Jonny** (2:04)
The specialist of presents.

**Chris Williamson** (2:05)
If on the count of three, you say the word lights, on one, two, three, lights. Look at that.

**Yusef** (2:14)
So wonderful.

**Chris Williamson** (2:15)
For the people who are not watching on YouTube, Jonny is lit up, very spangly, Christmas Jumper, which is available from Next, I think. Discount code, Jonny Watson, 25, for 25% off. It's lovely, man. Can it stop now? My epilepsy's gonna kick in.

**Yusef** (2:39)
Maybe if we say lights again, on the count of three, one, two, three, lights.

**Chris Williamson** (2:45)
It's still on.

**Yusef** (2:45)
Didn't work.

**Chris Williamson** (2:46)
That's shit. Right, anyway, so we are going to do a year in review. We're gonna talk about the best life hacks that we've come up with this year, what habits we have set, which we think have worked, talk about some massive fails, of which there will be numerous examples, and then maybe discuss some plans going into 2019 So by the end of this episode, you may have got some inspiration for some habits that you can instantiate as we move forward into the new year. And if not, you will be able to laugh at some of our failures from the last one. Also, you will notice that our friend Robin is perched upon the top of the mic.

**Jonny** (3:20)
Not called Martin.

**Chris Williamson** (3:21)
Martin.

**Jonny** (3:23)
Martin.

**Yusef** (3:23)
He's South African.

**Chris Williamson** (3:24)
It's Robin. Okay, so.

**Jonny** (3:26)
Flown a long way. Jonny. You always start with me.

**Chris Williamson** (3:28)
Okay, just go on.

**Jonny** (3:29)
It's like hot potato.

**Chris Williamson** (3:31)
Off you go. Catch this.

**Jonny** (3:33)
Yusef's got a big bowl of hot potatoes.

**Chris Williamson** (3:35)
He does, he's got loads. Yusef.

**Jonny** (3:39)
Biggest fail.

**Chris Williamson** (3:40)
It is Christmas. It is Christmas. It is the time of giving. I want you to give the listeners at home a massive Yusef fail.

**Yusef** (3:47)
Big, big fail.

**Chris Williamson** (3:48)
From this year.

**Yusef** (3:49)
Yeah. I just failed into this year, to be honest. So I started this year, having just come out of hospital.

**Jonny** (3:57)
It was the Jitis.

**Yusef** (3:58)
I got the Jitis. So I'd had three or four infections just back to back, ended up in hospital for eight or nine days, and then came out, 10 day retreat instantly, and then came out of the retreat into the new year at 67 kilos, which is 10 kilos below my baseline. So I started on a low and actually managed to build up this year over that time. If you've followed Propane for a while, you'd have seen that I turned this into a kind of journalistic piece called Project Swole, where I invited anyone who's had a bit of a rough time over the previous few months to join me in coming back to baseline.