Episode 100 Special Edition Q&A - #100

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hi friends, welcome to Episode 100 Can you believe it? A full century of episodes done, and we're only just getting started. Today, it is a special edition Q&A episode. Myself, Jonny and Yusef sitting down in my living room to do nearly two hours of questions that we've received on the internet, avoiding some that we just didn't fancy speaking about, and going down rabbit holes with a lot of others. Also, you get to hear the long-awaited why did Yusef once have a lemon ball story from a pilot episode we recorded nearly two years ago that never got aired. So in the same way as DVD extras and Easter eggs and stuff have little treats for you, Episode 100's got a lemon testicle shaped treat as well. Thank you so much for tuning in. I massively appreciate all of your support. I've said it all along that I honestly would do this podcast even if no one tuned in. The opportunity to speak to the people that I get to share time or bandwidth with is pretty priceless. But the fact that hundreds of thousands of you continue to tune in every single month makes it even more meaningful. So yeah, thank you very much. Enjoy the lemon ball story and roll on the next 100 episodes. Lots of love.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. It's episode 100

**Jonny** (1:40)
Woo-hoo!

**Chris Williamson** (1:43)
We've done 100 episodes of Modern Wisdom.

**Yusef** (1:46)
Eee, you really well.

**Chris Williamson** (1:48)
You shit the bed.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:50)
It doesn't feel like it.

**Chris Williamson** (1:51)
I know.

**Yusef** (1:52)
It's cause you've just suddenly gone.

**Chris Williamson** (1:54)
Twice a week, yeah, yeah, I know. But anyway, thank you very much to everyone who's tuned in over the last 100 episodes.

**Jonny** (2:02)
Do you remember the day we did the first podcast with you, and we had the preamble of making the coffee and the coffee was too strong.

**Chris Williamson** (2:10)
That was for propane, right?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:11)
Yeah.

**Jonny** (2:12)
So that was our interview with you. And then, look at the cast of it.

**Yusef** (2:16)
Chris Fit.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:17)
Chris Fit.

**Chris Williamson** (2:17)
Chris Fit it was. Yeah, exactly. 16 million listen minutes later and we're here. Here we are. So we've got a couple of special treats for you today. We're going to do Q&A. We asked for questions from people on the internet. Instagram have come up with some pretty good ones. Also, before I started this podcast as the name that it was, we did a pilot episode and originally it was called Mind and Matter. A bit of a shite name, I know. Mind and Matter and we did a pilot episode on purpose and meaning. As a part of that, Yusef told us a story about when his testicle grew to the size of a lemon because he got a hydrocele. Then he tried to pop it in the shower and then he had a number of other complications.
I've been asked a lot because I keep referencing it. I've been asked to put this story in. So you're going to get to hear it.

**Jonny** (3:15)
I've got the footage.

**Chris Williamson** (3:17)
Right now.

**Yusef** (3:19)
Right now. Fine. I'm going to give you the full monty.
This is a podcast about purpose and we're going to spend the first five minutes talking about my ball on request.

**Chris Williamson** (3:36)
Balls on demand.

**Yusef** (3:37)
Balls on demand.
One day I was coming out of the shower. My flatmate saw my ball and said, Yusef, that's really big. You need to do something about it. I said, no, it's fine. It's always been like that. Chris is losing water out of his mouth.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:58)
What was the first time that you were drying yourself off? You looked in the mirror and you're like, hmm.

**Yusef** (4:04)
It's very gradual and because the male denial of health issues runs so deep, you end up just ignoring things.

**Chris Williamson** (4:13)
I think you are a doctor.

**Yusef** (4:16)
I am now. I wasn't then, so I was even more averse and yeah, now I would be very different, I think. I would go after like when it got to half the size rather than the full lemon.

**Chris Williamson** (4:29)
So you're twice as sensitive to lemon ball now.

**Yusef** (4:31)
Yeah, exactly.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:32)
Now that you had a lemon ball, you know what it looks like.

**Yusef** (4:34)
Exactly. So the reason it's lemon ball is because it was the size of a lemon and throughout that process, it was normal to begin with and it gradually got bigger until there was this mismatch. And you end up justifying to yourself like, oh, there's always been a slight difference in size or whatever. And then it has to take someone else to say, no, no, come on.